| Privileged Mobilities: Professional Migration, Geo-Social Media, and a New Global Middle Class Contributor(s): McCarthy, Cameron (Other), Valdivia, Angharad N. (Other), Polson, Erika (Author) |
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ISBN: 1433130270 ISBN-13: 9781433130274 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $180.38 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Business Aspects - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies - Science | Earth Sciences - Geography |
| Dewey: 302.231 |
| LCCN: 2015038803 |
| Series: Intersections in Communications and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.90 lbs) 196 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
