期刊名称：Collegium : Studies across disciplines in the humanities and social sciences
印刷版ISSN：1796-2986
出版年度：2014
卷号：15
出版社：Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
摘要：An increas ing number of Western families lead a lifestyle whereby they spend half of the year in Goa, India, and the rest in the parents' countries of origin. Such people can be defined as lifestyle migrants. In this article, I discuss the phenomenon in terms of cos mopolitanism. I ask whether lifest yle migrant children in Goa (3 to 12-year-old s) are growing up in a cosmopolitan way. I show that the parents say that for their children their lifes tyle is a great advantage: their transnationally mobile life makes the children sociable and cosmopolitan. The views and practices of children and young adults who have grown up in Goa, however, show that although they appear cosmopolitan in some respects, in other respects they do not, and deeming them cosmopolitan depends on how we define the term. The lifestyle migrant children and young people do not necessarily reach out across cultural differences but their horizons are not narrowly national either. I argue that lifestyle migrant children in Goa are multilingual, sociable and flex ible in adapt ing to life in different places but that their engagement with the Indian other is limited. Therefore, they are cosmopolitan, but it is cosmopolitanism on limited, Wes tern terms
