
Privileged Mobilities
Professional Migration, Geo-Social Media, and a New Global Middle Class
by Erika Polson
Description
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.
Copyright Information
Copyright year 2016
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
- Publication Date June 2016
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781433130267
- Publication CountryUnited States
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 40.95 USD
- ReadershipProfessional and scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2016
- Dimensions225 X 150 mm
- SeriesIntersections in Communications and Culture
- Reference Code9781433130267
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