1st Edition

The British on The Costa Del Sol

By Karen O'Reilly Copyright 2000
198 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

'Brits in Spain' first achieved notoriety during the 1980s - popularly imagined as a group made up of exiled criminals, drunken hooligans and leathery looking pensioners - welcome to 'Little England'! The British on the Costa Del Sol is the very first book to study this British expatriate community in any great depth and, through use of interviews with members of this community, paints a far... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Setting the scene; Chapter 3 Migration; Chapter 4 A way of life; Chapter 5 Ethnicity and identity; Chapter 6 The construction of community; Chapter 7 British migrants;

Biography

Karen O’Reilly is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Aberdeen.