Intro; Contents; List of Figures; 1: Introduction; Practice Stories; About the Research; Building Practice Stories; Research with Lifestyle Migrants in Malaysia and Panama; Why Study Privileged Migration? Colonial Pasts and Neoliberal Presents; Intersections of Migration and Privilege; Lifestyle Migration and the Neoliberal Subject; Tourism, Imagination, and Migration; Interrogating the Role of Power and Privilege in Migration; Neoliberalism and Postcolonialism in the Practice of Privileged Migration; About the Chapters; References

2: Colonial Traces and Neoliberal Presents: Situating Malaysia and PanamaMalaysia and Panama on the Map; On the Map: Malaysia; On the Map: Panama; Malaysia and Panama and Colonial Histories; Malaya: From Colonisation to Independence, Consolidating Ethnic Tensions3; From Panamá to Panama: Cabildo to Country; Independence for Malaysia; the United States in Panama; Malaya to Malaysia: From War to Independence; The United States and Panama; Contemporary Malaysia and Panama; Malaysia Present Day: Economy and Migration

Contemporary Economic Development in Panama: Inequalities in 'the Crossroads of the World'Conclusions; Spotlight on Penang; Penang: A Brief Introduction; Penang and Colonisation; Spotlight on Boquete; Boquete: A Brief Introduction; Destination Boquete?; Closing thoughts on Boquete and Penang; References; 3: Residential Tourism and Economic Development: Imagineering Boquete and Penang; About Residential Tourism; Spain, the Paradigmatic Case of Residential Tourism; Residential Tourism as Economic Development; Residential Tourism, FDI, and the Individualisation of Risk

Promoting Malaysia and Panama as 'the World's Best Places to Retire'Lifestyle Media; Lifestyle Intermediaries; Imagineering Panama and Malaysia; Selling Malaysia; Imagineering Penang; Panama for Sale3; Making Boquete as a Lifestyle Destination; Conclusion; References; 4: Governance as Practice: Regulating Lifestyle Migration; Migration Governance as Practice; Elite Entry Routes: Visas, Residence, and Capital in Malaysia and Panama; Practising Elite Migration; Manipulating Migration Governance; Mobility-Enclosure, Practice, and Elite Migration; Towards a Flexible Governance of Elite Migration

ConclusionReferences; 5: Diverse Lives: Weaving Personal Stories; Biographies and Migration: Writing About the Lives of Others; A Snapshot of Diverse Lives; Migration Histories; Incremental Practices of Lifestyle Migration; Actively Choosing a New Life; Migration as a Series of Contingencies; Futures; Conclusion; References; 6: Working Towards the Good Life; Beyond the 'Expatriate Package'; Corporate Expatriates and Mobile Professionals in Malaysia and Panama; Choice and Insecurity in Working Lives Abroad; Gender and Expatriacy; Decoupling Work and Migration