Professor Karen O'Reilly

biography : publications : workshops & talks : links

Authored Books

2011 Ethnographic Methods. 2nd Ed. London: Routledge

2009 Key Concepts in Ethnography. London: Sage

2005 Ethnographic Methods. London: Routledge

2005 The NS-SEC: origins, development and use. London and New York: Office for National Statistics and Economic and Social Research Council. (with David Rose and David J. Pevalin)

2002 Working Capital: life and labour in contemporary London.  London: Routledge  (with Nick Buck, Ian Gordon, Peter Hall, Michael Harloe, Mark Kleinman, Belinda Brown, Gareth Potts, Jo Sparkes and Laura Smethurst)

2000 The British on the Costa del Sol. London: Routledge 

1998 The ESRC Review of Government Social Classifications Swindon: ESRC/ London: ONS (with David Rose)

1998 Final Report of the ESRC Review of Government Social Classifications. ESRC, Swindon (with David Rose)

Author-Edited Collections

2009  Lifestyle Migration. Expectations, Aspirations and Experiences, Farnham: Ashgate (with M. Benson) http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754675679.

1997 Constructing Classes: Towards a New Social Classification for the UK, Swindon: ESRC/ONS (with David Rose)

Refereed Papers

2010 A Bourdieusian Analysis of Class and Migration: habitus and the individualising process. Sociology, 44(1) (with C. Oliver) http://hdl.handle.net/2134/9137

2010. No Place Called Home: The Causes and Social Consequences of the UK Housing ‘Bubble’ British Journal of Sociology, 61(2): pp231-255 (with J. Bone) http://hdl.handle.net/2134/9139

2009 For interdisciplinarity and a disciplined, professional sociology,  Innovation. The European Journal of Social Science Research. 22(2): 219-232 http://hdl.handle.net/2134/9141

2009 Migration and the search for a better way of life: a critical exploration of lifestyle migration, The Sociological Review 57(4): 608-625 (With M. Benson) at:
http://hdl.handle.net/2134/5656

2007, ‘Intra-European Migration and the mobility-enclosure dialectic’, Sociology, 41(2):277-293 at: http://hdl.handle.net/2134/5659

2005 ‘On Loss of Activity and Independence, Adaptation Improves Life Satisfaction in Old Age – A qualitative study of patients' perceptions’, Quality of Life Research, 14: 1111-1125 (with A. C. Åberg, B. Sidenvall, M.Hepworth, H. Lithell)

2004 ‘La mise en tourisme des communautés transnationales : le cas des Britanniques en Espagne et des Québécois en Floride’ Tourism Review 59(3): 20-33 (The role in tourism of transnational communities: the British in Spain and the Québécois in Florida). (with R. Tremblay)

2004 'Continuity of the self in later life: perceptions of informal caregivers'. Qualitative Health Research 14(6): 792-815 (with A. C. Åberg, B. Sidenvall, M.Hepworth, H. Lithell)

2004 'The construction of Heimat under conditions of individualised modernity: Swiss and British elderly migrants in Spain', Ageing and Society. 24(3) 327-352 (with A. Huber)

2003 When is a tourist? The Articulation of Tourism and Migration in Spain’s Costa del Sol. Tourist Studies, 3(3): 301-317

2002 ‘Britain in Europe/The British in Spain. Exploring Britain’s changing relationship to the other’. Nations and Nationalism, Vol 8(2) 179-194

2000 ‘The New Europe/ Old Boundaries: British migrants in Spain’, Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, Vol. 22 (4) 477-491 at: http://hdl.handle.net/2134/5649

1998 ‘Changing Employment Relations? Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose? Reflections arising from the ESRC Review of Government Social Classifications' Work, Employment and Society, 12(4): 713-733 (with D. Rose)

1998 ‘The Economic and Social Research Council review of government social classifications’, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, series A, Vol.161, part 1 (invited paper, with D. Rose)

1997 ‘The ESRC Review of Government Social Classifications’, Population Trends, 89, pp. 49-60 (invited paper, with D. Rose and J. Martin)

Chapters in edited volumes

2010 ‘Children’s moving stories: how the children of British lifestyle migrants cope with super-diversity’ in Jackie Waldren and Ignacy-Marek Kaminski (eds) Learning from the children: culture and identity in a changing world, Berghahn Books

2009 ‘Lifestyle Migration: Escaping to the Good Life?’ in M. Benson and O’Reilly (eds) Lifestyle Migration. Expectations, Aspirations and Experiences, Ashgate http://hdl.handle.net/2134/9142

2009 ‘Taking the risk: the British in Didim, Turkey’ in M. Benson and O’Reilly (eds) Lifestyle Migration. Expectations, Aspirations and Experiences, Ashgate. (with O. Nudrali)

2009 ‘The children of the hunters: Self-realisation projects and class reproduction’ in  M. Benson and O’Reilly (eds) Lifestyle Migration. Expectations, Aspirations and Experiences, Ashgate. at: http://hdl.handle.net/2134/5663

2009 ‘The unequal effects of the globalisation of migration in the context of new forms of mobility’ In Schriewer et al. Residential Tourism and its Impacts. Icaria, Barcelona

2009 ‘Intra-European migration and social cohesion: The extent and nature of integration of British migrants in Spain’ (In Spanish) In T. Mazón, R. Huete, and A. Mantecón. Turismo, urbanisación y estilos de vida (Tourism, urbanisation and lifestyles), Barcelona: Icaria

2009. Hosts and Guests, Guests and Hosts: British residential tourism in the Costa del Sol, in Obrador Pons, P., Travlou, P. and Crang, M. eds. 2008 Cultures of Mass Tourism: Doing the Mediterranean in the age of banal mobilities. Farnham: Ashgate at: http://hdl.handle.net/2134/5662

2007 ‘Emerging Tourism Futures: Residential Tourism and Its Implications’ in C. Geoffroy and R. Sibley (eds), Going Abroad: Travel, Tourism, and Migration, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing at: http://hdl.handle.net/2134/6117

2004 London: competitiveness, cohesion and the policy environment in Martin Boddy and Michael Parkinson (eds), City Matters: Competitiveness, cohesion and urban governance, Bristol: The Policy Press. pp. 71 - 92 (with Buck, N. et al)

2004. ‘Older Migrant Adaptation Strategies: patterns of association and social activities of British migrants in the Costa del Sol’  in Warnes, T (ed) Older Migrants in Europe: Essays, Projects and Sources. Sheffield Institute for Studies on Ageing

2004. ‘’Language competence of British migrants in Spain and the wider implications for older migrants’ in Warnes, T (ed) Older Migrants in Europe: Essays, Projects and Sources. Sheffield Institute for Studies on Ageing

2004. Los jubilados británicos en la Costa del Sol (British retirees in the Costa del Sol.) in V. Rodriguez, M.A. Casado-Diaz and A. Huber (eds) La Migración de Europeos Retirados en España. (The Migration of European Retirees in Spain) Madrid: CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas).

2001 ‘Blackpool in the sun: images of the British on the Costa del Sol’. In R. King and N. Woods, (eds) Media and Migration, London: Routledge

2000 'Trading Intimacy for Liberty: British women on the Costa del Sol' in  Anthias, F. and Lazaridis, G.(eds)  Gender and Migration in Southern Europe, Oxford: Berg

1997 ‘Constructing Classes’ in D. Rose and K. O’Reilly (eds) Constructing Classes: Towards a New Social Classification for the UK, Swindon: ESRC/ONS, pp. 1-20 (with D. Rose)

1997 ‘Criterion Validation of the Interim Revised Social Classification’ in D. Rose and K. O’Reilly (eds) Constructing Classes: Towards a New Social Classification for the UK, Swindon: ESRC/ONS, pp.62-77 (with D. Rose)

1997 ‘Constructing Classes: The final phase’ in D. Rose and K. O’Reilly (eds) Constructing Classes: Towards a New Social Classification for the UK, Swindon: ESRC/ONS, pp. 146-150 (with D. Rose)

2007 'British affluence migrants in the Costa del Sol in the late 20th century' in Klaus Bade, Pieter Emmer, Leo Lucassen, Jochen Oltmer (Hrsg), Migration und Integration in Europa seit der frühen Neuzeit: eine Enzyklopädie (Migration and Integration in Europe: an Encyclopaedia). Frankfurt am Main: Campus-Verlag and Cambridge University Press.