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Digital Nomads

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Digital nomads are individuals who leverage technology to work remotely while traveling or living in various locations, often outside traditional office environments. This lifestyle allows them to maintain professional careers while exploring different cultures and places, facilitated by advancements in communication and information technology.
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Digital nomads are individuals who leverage technology to work remotely while traveling or living in various locations, often outside traditional office environments. This lifestyle allows them to maintain professional careers while exploring different cultures and places, facilitated by advancements in communication and information technology.

Key research themes

1. How do digital nomads balance work and leisure in their mobile lifestyle?

This theme investigates the intricate interplay between professional obligations and leisure pursuits within the digital nomad lifestyle, emphasizing how nomads manage the blurring boundaries between work and personal life amid constant mobility. Understanding these dynamics is critical for framing digital nomadism beyond simplistic freedom narratives, highlighting nuanced experiences such as isolation, self-discipline, and the construction of community.

Key finding: Through interviews with 38 digital nomads, this study reveals that while digital nomads prioritize leisure over employment location, their lifestyle entails significant challenges including social isolation and loneliness.... Read more
Key finding: Employing a qualitative praxiographic approach with 224 digital diaries and 32 interviews, this research identifies 25 distinct border management practices digital nomads enact to negotiate their work-leisure boundaries,... Read more
Key finding: Based on 30 interviews using Goffman's impression management framework and photo elicitation, this study finds digital nomads on Instagram emphasize freedom and independence, strategically foreground leisure and travel while... Read more
Key finding: Examining digital nomads in Chiang Mai, Thailand, this article uncovers their conceptualization of freedom grounded in mobility and location independence, highlighting the need for discipline to manage productivity. It... Read more

2. How do mobility regimes and state policies shape the experiences and governance of digital nomads?

This research area explores how digital nomads navigate, resist, and are shaped by state-based mobility controls including visa regulations and legal frameworks. It critically examines the dialectical relationship between nomads as neoliberal self-governing subjects and the state's evolving strategies to codify, regulate, and commodify digital nomadism through instruments like digital nomad visas, reflecting broader socio-political power dynamics and the coexistence of mobility and governance.

Key finding: Utilizing ethnographic fieldwork and the concepts of 'friction' and 'governmobility', this study reveals that digital nomads creatively maneuver state-imposed mobility restrictions through 'border artistry' while states... Read more
Key finding: By comparatively analyzing digital nomad visas from Croatia, Thailand, and Spain, the article identifies three distinct policy rationales—tourism, wealth accumulation, and immigration—that influence visa design. It develops a... Read more
Key finding: This legal analysis highlights challenges in characterizing digital nomads' employment status within European private international law, emphasizing frequent misclassification as self-employed, which deprives labor rights. It... Read more
Key finding: Through qualitative interviews with Lisbon residents, this study reveals ambivalent local perceptions of digital nomads, appreciating their economic contributions and cultural exchange potential but expressing concerns about... Read more

3. How do destination characteristics and industry adaptations influence the attractiveness and integration of digital nomads?

This theme addresses the roles of destination attributes, hospitality infrastructure, and industry responses in attracting digital nomads and facilitating their integration. It investigates destination preferences, strengths, challenges, and evolving service models including co-working/co-living solutions, visa facilitation, and digital community building, crucial for destination planning and the sustainable incorporation of digital nomads in the tourism and labour economies.

Key finding: Through SWOT and content analysis of Greece’s official digital nomad website and hospitality offerings, this research identifies Greece’s strengths in natural beauty and affordability, alongside opportunities from expanding... Read more
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Key finding: Using topic modelling of over 11,000 Instagram posts, the study reveals the rising significance of geoarbitrage and the work-leisure hybrid lifestyle in shaping digital nomad mobility patterns. It emphasizes tourism... Read more
Key finding: Through case study analysis of Remote Year, this research identifies 'NomadEase' services—integrated packages offering accommodation, workspace, social events, and administrative support—as essential facilitators that... Read more
Key finding: Utilizing survey data from 600 Turkish university students, this study finds that awareness and willingness to adopt digital nomad lifestyles significantly correlate with demographic and attitudinal factors such as age,... Read more
Key finding: This conceptual work synthesizes 48 diverse sources to formulate the UDDN model, identifying key destination attributes preferred by digital nomads including internet quality, cost of living, climate, safety, and community... Read more

All papers in Digital Nomads

Cross-border telework has emerged as a specific form of remote work and one of the most significant regulatory challenges in contemporary law. It entails interventions across several branches of law: labour law, social security law, tax... more
The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally challenged digital nomadism, as lockdown restrictions appeared to undermine its very foundations-holistic freedom and physical travel. Yet, digital nomads continued pursuing their self-actualisation... more
Purpose-This study aims to analyze global nomadism, transformed by the deepening crises of the Anthropocene, as a contemporary spatial reflex and to propose the conceptual model of "Escapecore," which redefines belonging through movement,... more
The digital nomad is a brand-new traveler that has emerged as a result of the digital age. These travelers are able to work while constantly travelling from one location to another and simply need an internet connection. They continue to... more
Una sensación sorprendente y paradójica que ocurre cuando viajas fuera de tu ciudad natal es lo mucho que se parecen el resto de ciudades. Más allá de los estilos arquitectónicos, cuando uno pasea por los centros urbanos de Madrid,... more
Scholarly debates on digital nomadism have led to contrasting views regarding the socioeconomic conditions of digital nomads. On the one hand, it is celebrated as a lifestyle that merges work and leisure through geoarbitrage, where mobile... more
Freelancing platforms, such as Upwork and Fiverr, have enabled virtual spaces for freelancers to advertise, deliver, and charge for their services worldwide with reduced uncertainty. However, freelancing platforms, like other types of gig... more
resumen | La gentrificación transnacional es un fenómeno documentado en América Latina desde hace al menos una década. En el contexto de la emergencia sanitaria mundial ocasionada por la pandemia de Covid-19, un número importante de... more
Technological advancements have expanded remote work opportunities, leading to the emergence of the "digital nomad" tourist profile and a new tourism market. This study aims to evaluate Rize, Turkey, as a potential destination for this... more
Modern kapitalizmin bireye sunduğu en baştan çıkarıcı vaatlerden biri, mekânın ve zamanın prangalarından kurtulmuş, "özgür" bir yaşamdır. Bu vaadin son ve en parlak tecellisi, dijital göçebelik (digital nomadism) olgusunda kendini... more
Trend-following remains one of the most widely studied and practiced approaches in financial markets, yet reliable trend confirmation continues to be elusive. Conventional indicators such as moving averages, momentum oscillators, and... more
Lifestyles worldwide are evolving in response to technological innovations, the information age, and large-scale disruptions such as the COVID-19 pandemic, earthquakes, wars, and economic crises. This study examines the emergence of... more
This article examines how "brandless by design" strategies in Web3, particularly among digital nomads and creators of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), reshape consumer behavior, market intermediation, and governance. Using a structured... more
À minha querida avó, Maria da Gloria, que com sua força e alegria em viver deixou um legado de amor e perseverança. Hoje, no dia do seu aniversário, lhe presenteio com este trabalho que é fruto de muita dedicação. Sei que estás feliz por... more
This article explores the aspirations for digital work among two seemingly disparate groups: Lao rural-urban migrant youth and Western digital nomads. Based on ethnographic research in Laos and Thailand, we argue that despite differing... more
The rise of digital nomadism has redefined work and travel, allowing individuals to maintain a nomadic lifestyle while working remotely. This lifestyle prioritizes leisure and freedom, with digital nomads often shaping their identities... more
Fenomena digital nomad telah berkembang pesat, didorong oleh kemajuan teknologi yang memungkinkan individu bekerja secara remote tanpa terikat lokasi. Artikel ini mengkaji gaya hidup digital nomad, menganalisis daya tarik utamanya berupa... more
Zygmunt Bauman's artistic form of sociology, characterised by its use of metaphors, provides a distinct perspective to analyse contemporary social phenomena like digital nomadism. Bauman's metaphors, such as "liquidity", "tourists", and... more