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Privileged Mobilities: Professional Migration, Geo-Social Media, and a New Global Middle Class

Series edited by Cameron McCarthy, Series edited by Angharad N. Valdivia, By (author) Erika Polson

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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.

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Publisher | Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Published date | 5 Jun 2016
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 196
Dimensions | 0 x 0 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 300g
ISBN | 978-1-4331-3026-7
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BISAC | language arts & disciplines / communication


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