Privileged Mobilities

Professional Migration, Geo-Social Media, and a New Global Middle Class
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ISBN-13:
9781433130274
Veröffentl:
2016
Einband:
HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Erscheinungsdatum:
15.06.2016
Seiten:
210
Autor:
Erika Polson
Gewicht:
450 g
Format:
231x155x16 mm
Serie:
34, Intersections in Communications and Culture
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:

As corporations ramp up «workforce globalization» and young professionals increasingly pursue opportunities to work abroad, social entrepreneurs use online digital platforms to create offline social events where foreigners can meet face-to-face. Through ethnographic study of such groups in Paris, Singapore, and Bangalore, Erika Polson illustrates how, as a new generation of expatriates uses location technologies to create mobile «places,» a new global middle class is emerging.While there are many differences in the specifics between the expat groups, they share certain characteristics that indicate a larger logic to the way that the increasing mobility of professional career paths is connected to new subjectivities and changing forms of community among a diverse and growing demographic.This book opens up a new field of study, one which pays more attention to middle class mobility while questioning the privileging of mobility more generally.

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