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196 Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal 1 2o15 Nataša Rogelja | The sea: place of ultimate freedom? Sweden). The sea as a place which signifies for migrants something loosely defined as quality of life, has a quality of “the gap”, which can be inhabited also due to modern technology, and from where one can go in different directions. for a few retired couples such liminality can even be an end point - one of the famous books by Bill and Laurel cooper (1994), Sail into the Sunset. A Handbook for “Ancient” Mariners has all kinds of advice on how to die on the boat in the chapter Your time is up. for families, it can be an intermediary phase, for couples such as Tom and Prudence, a place of constant adventurous circulation. The geographic place of the sea and imaginaries of the sea can be used as a jumpstart that enables individuals to reflect or even rear- range work and family life, or it can be inhabited in a more permanent sense in order to achieve for example an active retirement. for my interlocutors, it seems as though the sea functions as an in-between place that one can inhabit and contemplate about options for a while, acquiring new in-between skills and knowledge that can be effectively used in their future experiments in order to create a more meaningful world for themselves. References Amit, Vered. 2007. Structures and Dispositions of Travel and Movement, in Going First Class? New Approaches to Privileged Travel and Movement, edited by Amit Vered (New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books), 1-14 . Bauman, Zygmunt. 2010. Liquid Modernity (cambridge: Polity Press) Benson, Michaela. 2012. ‘how culturally-significant representations are translated into lifestyle migration’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 38(10), 1681-1696. Benson, Michaela. 2011. The British in rural France: lifestyle migration and the ongoing quest for a better way of life (Manchester: Univ. Press) Benson, Michaela and O’Reilley, Karen (eds.). 2009. Lifestyle Migration. Expectations, Aspirations and Experiences (farnham: Ashgate) Benson, Michaeal and Osbaldiston, Nick (eds.). 2014. Understanding Lifestyle Migration. Theoretical Approaches to Migration and the Quest for a Better Way of Life (hampshire: Palgrave) Bousiou, Pola. 2008. The Nomads of Mykonos. Performing Liminalities in a “queer” Space (New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books) cocker, Ema. 2012. Border crossing: practices for beating the bounds in Liminal landscapes, edited by hazel Andrews and Les Roberts (London, New York: Routledge), 50-66. cooper, Bill and Laurel cooper. 1994. Sell up and Sail (London: Adlard coles Nautical) corbin, Alain. 1994. The Lure of the Sea. The Discovery of the Seaside in the Western World 1750-1840 (cambridge: Polity Press) Deleuze, Gilles and felix, Guattari. 1988. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota) Drissen, henk. 2004. ‘A Janus-faced Sea. contrasting Perceptions and Experiences of the Mediterranean’, MAST, 3(1), 41-51. Eimermman, Marco 2013. There and back again? Dutch lifestyle migrants moving to rural Sweden in the early 21st century (Örebro: Örebro University Press)