This paper discusses the emigration process by the Swedes permanently residing in Portugal and their emotional ties to the Swedish society. The focus is on those who have no ambition nor desire to keep up any ties with Sweden after they have emigrated to Portugal. Hitherto, the non‐intention to return is, both empirically and theoretically, underexplored in migration research. To enrich the conceptual framework, we incorporate Hirschmann's theory on loyalty, voice, and exit with Elias's established/outsider‐theory. The findings suggest that many of the Swedes in Portugal with no intentions to return were Eliasian ‘outsiders’ before leaving Sweden. We conclude that all lifestyle migrants do not migrate to'practice privilege’ or'self‐fulfilment’, partly contesting what is known about lifestyle migrations associated with European north‐south migrations; some have done a Hirschmann ‘exit’, left their native country and try to prosper somewhere else. The added value of this paper is its potential to explain why emigrants choose not to maintain ties with their country of origin.

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埃利亚斯式“局外人”的生活方式移民：瑞典移民葡萄牙的案例


本文讨论了永久居住在葡萄牙的瑞典人的移民过程以及他们与瑞典社会的情感联系。重点是那些移民到葡萄牙后没有野心也不想与瑞典保持任何联系的人。迄今为止，在移民研究中，无论是在实证上还是在理论上，对非回归意愿的探讨都还不够。为了丰富概念框架，我们将赫希曼关于忠诚、声音和退出的理论与埃利亚斯的既定/局外人理论相结合。调查结果表明，许多在葡萄牙无意返回的瑞典人在离开瑞典之前都是埃利亚斯的“局外人”。我们的结论是，所有生活方式移民都不会为了“实践特权”或“自我实现”而迁移，这在一定程度上质疑了与欧洲南北移民相关的生活方式移民的认知；有些人已经像赫希曼那样“退出”，离开自己的祖国并试图在其他地方繁荣发展。本文的附加价值在于它有可能解释为什么移民选择不与原籍国保持联系。