Privileged Mobilities: Professional Migration Geo-Social Media and a New Global Middle Class
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Privileged Mobilities: Professional Migration Geo-Social Media and a New Global Middle Class
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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.
Book Details
- Author: Erika Polson
- Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
- eBook ISBN: 9781454190356, 1454190353
- Print ISBN: 9781433130267, 1433130262
- Other ISBNs: 9781453917503, 1453917500, 9781433130274, 1433130270
