Karl Husa

Book Review: Intersections of Tourism, Migration, and Exile | Journal of Multidisciplinary in Social Sciences Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer Open Menu Home About the Journal Editorial Team Current Archives Peer Review Process Author Guidelines Submissions Publication Ethics Announcements Contact Search Register Login 1.Home / 2.Archives / 3.Vol. 19 No. 3 (2023): September - December / 4.Book Review Book Review: Intersections of Tourism, Migration, and Exile Authors Karl Husa Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, 1010 Austria References Cohen, E. (2021): Mobility Regimes, Subversive Mobilities, and Tourism. In Tourism Analysis 26(1), 91-103. Cresswell, T. (2011): On the Move – Mobility in the Modern Western World. London: Routledge. Boyle, P., Halfacree, K., & Robinson, V. (1998): Exploring Contemporary Mobility. …

This chapter examines the intersections of tourism and migration in the context of retirement and marriage migration in Thailand. In recent decades, the volume of spatial mobility processes has continuously increased. Not only has the complexity of spatial patterns advanced dramatically, but also the types of population groups involved. Thailand has become one of the most popular tourist destinations worldwide and is a prominent hotspot for international retirement migration. This increase in senior migration attests to desires to spend “sunset years” abroad, where one can enjoy a better, more affordable lifestyle in a more pleasant environment, often with a local partner. In the Thai context, retirement migration patterns predominantly consist of male senior citizens from Europe, North America, Australia, and some East Asian countries settling in Thailand. Male retirement migration to Thailand also has a counter …

Declining birth and death rates, changes in age distribution, in mortality and morbidity, in fertility and marriage behavior, in the average life expectancy and in family and household structures, as well as a transformation of traditional family life arrangements and social structures of ever larger sections of the population–these are all scenarios that only a few years ago were only relevant for countries of the Global North. In the meantime, however, demographic change has also affected parts of the less developed world with a vehemence and dynamism that, even in the 1980s, neither demographers nor politicians considered possible in the affected regions of the world: the demographic transition, which is often also graphically illustrated through the well-known demographic transition model, has taken place much more rapidly in Southeast Asia in recent decades than in other less developed parts of the world. Accordingly, as the demographic transition progressed, the focus shifted to the demographic situation in Southeast Asia: Until the mid-20th century, population development in this region was still classified as a ‘demographic anomaly’by many demographers. Around the middle of the last century, Wilbur Zelinsky (1950: 115), for example, commented on the demographic situation of Southeast Asia in comparison to that of India and China as follows:“[...] it is more than a little startling that side by side with these fearfully overcrowded regions [meaning India and China] there should be found others, apparently comparable in natural resources, where the actual density is conspicuously low, so much so that underpopulation is often a serious issue …