Academic publications

Below I have listed academic publications that I have come across on digital nomadism and on digital nomads. They deal with various topics, such as the division between work and leisure, identity and belonging, entrepreneurship, what digital nomad life looks like and so forth. For statistics and some reports, please click here.

This list is by no means exhaustive and I will be updating it as I come across more sources. Unfortunately, many of the articles are behind a paywall, meaning that you need to have a university subscription to be able to access them. Regardless, if you are interested in one particular paper, you can have always access to the abstracts by googling the title and the author to get the main idea.

2023

Bassyiouny, M. & Wilkesmann, M. (2023). Going on workation – Is tourism research ready to take off? Exploring an emerging phenomenon of hybrid tourism. Tourism Management Perspectives.

Bonneau, C., Aroles, J., & Estagnasié, C. (2023). Romanticisation and monetisation of the digital nomad lifestyle: The role played by online narratives in shaping professional identity work. Organization.

Cook, D. (2023) What is a digital nomad? Definition and taxonomy in the era of mainstream remote work. World Leisure Journal.

Dreher, N. & Triandafyllidou, A. (2023) “Nomads and the Implications for Immigration Systems”. Report.

Hannonen, O., Aguiar Quintana, T., Lehto, X. Y. (2023) A supplier side view of digital nomadism: The case of destination Gran Canaria. Tourism Management.

Holleran, M. & Notting, M. (2023) Mobility guilt: digital nomads and COVID-19. Tourism Geographies.

Hong, R. (2023) Road warriors to digital nomads: portable computers, habitats, and remote work. Cultural Studies.

Mancinelli, F. & Germann Molz, J. (2023) Moving with and against the state: digital nomads and frictional mobility regimes. Mobilities.

Mariati, S., Gilitasha, A. & Rahmanita, M., Djati, S. P. & Adawiyah, R. (2023) Analysis of Sustainable Tourism Destination Development for Digital Nomads (Comparative Study: Lisbon-Portugal and Canggu, Bali-Indonesia). Technium Social Sciences Journal, Technium Science.

Matsushita, K. (2023) How the Japanese workcation embraces digital nomadic work style employees. World Leisure Journal.

Mourato, I, Dias, A. & Pereira, L. (2023). Estimating the Impact of Digital Nomads’ Sustainable Responsibility on Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy. Social Sciences, MDPI.

Orel, M. (2023) Wanderlust workforce: a journey into understanding digital nomadism. World Leisure Journal.

Papanikolaou, V., Roussakis, Y. & Tzionas, P. (2023) Knowledge nomads: an educational cultural fusion of the local with the global to promote democratic cooperation. Globalisation, Societies and Education.

Pignatari, L. T. (2023) The Taxation of ‘Digital Nomads’ and the ‘3 W’s’: Between Tax Challenges and Heavenly Beaches. Intertax.

Sánchez-Vergara, J. I., Orel, M. & Capdevila, I. (2023) “Home office is the here and now.” Digital nomad visa systems and remote work-focused leisure policies. World Leisure Journal.

Šímová, T. (2023). A research framework for digital nomadism: a bibliometric study. World Leisure Journal.

Toivanen, M. (2023) Countercultural lifestyle no more?: Digital Nomadism and the Commodification of Neo-nomadic Mobilities, Mobility Humanities.

WYSE Travel Confederation (2023) Growth and developments in the digital nomad market since COVID-19. WYSE Travel Confederation.

2022

Amaddeo, F. (2022). Swiss digital nomads: from vis-a-vis to visa. Jusletter.

Amaddeo, F. (2022) Commuters and remote working. Jusletter.

Andrejuk, K. (2022). Pandemic transformations in migrant spaces: Migrant entrepreneurship between super‐digitalization and the new precarity. Population, Space and Place.

Aroles, J., Bonneau, C., Bhankaraully, S. (2022). Conceptualising ‘Meta-Work’ in the Context of Continuous, Global Mobility: The Case of Digital Nomadism. Work, Employment and Society.

Braesemann, F., Stephany, F., Teutloff, Ol., Kässi, O., Graham, M., Lehdonvirta, V. (2022) The global polarisation of remote work. PLOS ONE.

Cook, D. (2022) Breaking the Contract: Digital Nomads and the State. Critique of Anthropology.

de Loryn, B. (2022) Not necessarily a place: How mobile transnational online workers (digital nomads) construct and experience ‘home’. Global Networks.

Holleran, M. (2022) Pandemics and geoarbitrage: digital nomadism before and after COVID-19. City.

Hooper, K. & Benton, M. (2022) The Future of Remote Work: Digital Nomads and the Implications for Immigration Systems. Migration Policy Institute.

Jiwasiddi, A., Schlagwein, D., Leong, C. (2022). Assessing the Impacts of Digital Nomadism on Local Communities: The Case of Chiang Mai, Thailand. PACIS 2022 Proceedings.

Lhakard, P. (2022) Destination City for Digital Nomad’s in Thailand: A Case Study of Digital Nomad Community in Chiang Mai. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Studies.

MBO Partners (2022) “Working from The Road: The Aspirations and Reality for Digital Nomads”. Report.

OECD (2022) Should OECD countries develop new Digital Nomad Visas?. Migration Policy Debates.

Parreño-Castellano, J., Domínguez-Mujica, J., & Moreno-Medina, C. (2022) Reflections on Digital Nomadism in Spain during the COVID-19 Pandemic—Effect of Policy and Place. Sustainability.

Sanul, G. (2022) Digital nomadism and global mobility: Challenges and suggestions for international migration policies. International Migration.

Williamson, J., Hassanli, N., Grabowski, S. (2022). OzNomads: a case study examining the challenges of COVID-19 for a community of lifestyle travellers. Current Issues in Tourism.

2021

Abdelgawad, N. (2021) Mobile Nomadic Digital Identity. Millennium Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Bahri, M. T. & Widhyharto, D. S. (2021) Social Network Analysis (SNA) on #Kristengray Hashtag: Understanding Gentrification Side Effects Behind the Digital Nomad Phenomenon. Jurnal Studi Pemuda.

Barroso, F. C.  & da Silva, M. M. (2021) ”From backpacker to digital nomad – footpaths of a digital transformation”. RTIC – Revista De Tecnologias, Informação E Comunicação.

Bastos, C., Novoa, A., & Salazar, N. B. (2021) Mobile labour: an introduction. Mobilities.

Berbegal-Mirabent, J. (2021) What Do We Know about Co-Working Spaces? Trends and Challenges Ahead. Sustainability.

Bergan, T. L., Gorman-Murray, A. & Power, E. R. (2021) Coliving housing: home cultures of precarity for the new creative class. Social and Cultural Geography.

Bonneau, C. & Aroles, J. (2021) “Digital Nomads: A New Form of Leisure Class?”. In the book, Digital Nomads: A New Form of Leisure Class? Cambridge University Press, Eds. Aroles, J.et al., pp. 157-178.

Chevtaeva, E. (2021) “Coworking and Coliving: The Attraction for Digital Nomad Tourists”. In the book Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism, Eds. by W. Wörndl et al, pp. 202–209.

Kelly, H. & Arelano, D. (2021) ”Work and Wonder: Meet today’s Digital Nomads”. Report.

Nash, E. C., Jarrahi, M. H., & Sutherland, W. (2021) Nomadic work and location independence: The role of space in shaping the work of digital nomads. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies.

Niesten, H. (2021) Revising the Fiscal and Social Security Landscape of International Teleworkers in the Digital Age, Intertax.

Tyutyuryukov, V. & Guseva, N. (2021) From remote work to digital nomads: tax issues and tax opportunities of digital lifestyle. IFAC-PapersOnLine.

Williamson, J., Hassanlim, N. & Grabowski, S. (2021) OzNomads: a case study examining the challenges of COVID-19 for a community of lifestyle travellers, Current Issues in Tourism.

Woldoff, R. A., Litchfield, R. C. (2021) Digital Nomads: In Search of Meaningful Work in the New Economy. Oxford University Press.

2020

Amit, V. (2020) De la migration de style de vie au mode de vie mobile. Plaidoyer pour une conception large/ambiguë de la mobilité. Anthropologies et sociétés.

Aroles, J., Granter, E. & de Vaujany, F.-X. (2020) ‘Becoming mainstream’: the professionalisation and corporatisation of digital nomadism. New Technology, Work and Employment.

Bozzi, N. (2020) #digitalnomads, #solotravellers, #remoteworkers: A Cultural Critique of the Traveling Entrepreneur on Instagram. Social Media + Society.

Cook, D. (2020) The freedom trap: digital nomads and the use of disciplining practices to manage work/leisure boundaries, Information Technology & Tourism.

Green, P. (2020) Disruptions of self, place and mobility: digital nomads in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Mobilities.

Forget, C. & Salazar, N. B. (2020) Présentation. Modes de vie mobiles: une perspective anthropologique. Anthropologies et sociétés.

Hannonen, O. (2020) In search of a digital nomad: defining the phenomenon. Information Technology & Tourism.

Hemsley. J. et al. (2020) Digital Nomads, Coworking, and Other Expressions of Mobile Work on Twitter. First Monday.

Hermann, I. & Morris Paris, C. (2020) Digital Nomadism: the nexus of remote working and travel mobility. Information Technology and Tourism.

McElroy, E. (2020) Digital nomads in siliconising Cluj: Material and allegorical double dispossession. Urban Studies.

Mancinelli, F. (2020) Digital nomads: freedom, responsibility and the neoliberal order. Information Technology & Tourism.

Mancinelli, F. (2020) Nomades numériques. La mobilité comme ”projet du soi”. Anthropologies et Sociétés.

MBO Partners (2020). “COVID-19 and the Rise of the Digital Nomad”. Report.

von Zumbusch, J. & Lalicic, L. (2020) The role of co‑living spaces in digital nomads’ well‑being. Information Technology and Tourism.

Wang, B., Schlagwein, D., Cecez-Kecmanovic, D. & Cahalane, M. (2020) Beyond the Factory Paradigm: Digital Nomadism and the Digital Future(s) of Knowledge Work Post-COVID-19 Journal of the Association for Information Systems.

Willment, N. (2020) The travel blogger as digital nomad: (Re‑)imagining workplace performances of digital nomadism within travel blogging work. Information Technology & Tourism.

2019

Al-Hadi, N. A. & Saif Al-Aufi, A. (2019) Information context and socio-technical practice of digital nomads. Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication.

Gretzel, U. and Hardy, A. (2019) “#VanLife: Materiality, Makeovers and Mobility amongst Digital Nomads”. E-Review of Tourism Research.

Lee, A., Toombs, A. L., & Erickson, I. (2019). ”Infrastructure vs. Community: Co-Spaces Confront Digital Nomads’ Paradoxical Needs”. In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’19). ACM, New York, NY.

Lee, A., Toombs, A. L., Erickson, I., Nemer, D., Ho, Y. S., Jo, E., & Guo, Z. (2019). The social infrastructure of Co-spaces: Home, work, and sociable places for digital nomads. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 3(CSCW).

Orel, M. (2019) Coworking environments and digital nomadism: balancing work and leisure whilst on the move, World Leisure Journal.

Thompson, B. Y. (2019) ”‘I get my lovin’ on the run’: Digital Nomads, Constant Travel, and Nurturing Romantic Relationships”. In the book The Geographies of Digital Sexuality, edited by C. Nash, A. Gorman-Murray.

2018

Bartosik-Purgat, M. (2018) Digital Nomads – Entrepreneurship or New Lifestyle? Przedsiebiorczosc i Zarzadzanie.

Mancinelli, F. (2018). A practice of togetherness: home imaginings in the life of location-independent families. International Journal of Tourism Anthropology.

Nash, C., Jarrahi, M. H., Sutherland, W. & Phillips, G. (2018) ”Digital Nomads Beyond the Buzzword: Defining Digital Nomadic Work and Use of Digital Technologies”. In the book Transforming Digital Worlds, edited by G. Chowdhury et al. Springer.

Reichenberg, I. (2018) Digital nomads – a quest for holistic freedom in work and leisure. Annals of Leisure Research.

Thompson, B. Y. (2018) The Digital Nomad Lifestyle: (Remote) Work/Leisure Balance, Privilege, and Constructed Community. International Journal of Sociology of Leisure.

Thompson, B. Y. (2018) Digital nomads: Employment in the online gig economy. Glocalism: Journal of culture, politics and innovation.

2017

Korpela, M. (2017) Moving to paradise for the children’s sake. Migration Letters.

Madya, S. (2017) Mobile sociality. Backpacker interaction in a digital world. Master’s Thesis, Stockholm University.Makimoto T., Manners D. (1997) Digital Nomad, Wiley Publ., Chichester.

2016

Benson, M. & O’Reilly, K. (2016) From lifestyle migration to lifestyle in migration: Categories, concepts and ways of thinking. Migration Studies.

Benson, M. & Osbaldiston, N. (2016) Toward a Critical Sociology of Lifestyle Migration: Reconceptualizing Migration and the Search for a Better Way of Life. The Sociological Review.

Jacobs E. & Gussekloo A. (2016), Digital Nomads: How to Live, Work and Play Around the World. Location-Independent Publishers, New York.

Kannisto, P. (2016) Extreme mobilities: Challenging the concept of ‘travel’. Annals of Tourism Research.

Korpela, M. (2016) A (sub)culture of their own? Children of lifestyle migrants in Goa, India. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal.

Müller, A. (2016) The digital nomad: Buzzword or research category, Transnational social review.

2015

Richards, G. (2015) The new global nomads: Youth travel in a globalizing world, Tourism Recreation Research.

2014

Büscher, M. (2014). Nomadic Work: Romance and Reality. A Response to Barbara Czarniawska’s ‘Nomadic Work as Life-Story Plot’. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW).

Cohen, S. A., Duncan T. & Thulemark, M. (2014) Life-style mobilities: The crossroads of travel, leisure and migration. Mobilities.

Kannisto, P. (2014) Global nomads. Challenges of mobility in the sedentary world. PhD thesis, Tilburg University.

Older ones:

Makimoto T. (2013) The age of the digital nomad – impact of CMOS innovation. IEEE Solid State Circuits Magazine.

Gluesing, J. C., Meerwarth, T. L. & Jordan, B. (2008) Patterns of mobile work and life. NAPA Bulletin.

Goldmacher, A, (2008) Located mobility: Living and working in multiple places. NAPA Bulletin.

D’Andrea A. (2007) Global Nomads: Techno and New Age as Transnational Countercultures in Ibiza and Goa. Routledge, London. 

Mascheroni, G. (2007) Global Nomads’ Network and Mobile Sociality: Exploring New Media Uses on the Move. Information, Community and Society.

D’Andrea, A. (2006) Neo-nomadism: A theory of post-identitarian mobility in the global age. Mobilities.

Noyes , J. (2004) Nomadism, nomadology, postcolonialism: By way of introduction. Interventions.  

Bell, M. & Ward, G. (2000) Comparing permanent migration with temporary mobility. Tourism Geographies.

Makimoto T. & Manners, D. (1997) Digital nomad. Wiley.