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.
| ISBN: | 9781433130274 |
| Publication date: | 15th June 2016 |
| Author: | Erika Polson |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang Publishing Inc |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 196 pages |
| Series: | Intersections in Communications and Culture |
| Genres: |
Speaking in public: advice and guides Communication studies Regional / International studies Media studies Social and cultural anthropology Geography Information technology: general topics Internet guides and online services Educational: Social sciences, social studies |
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.
Privileged Mobilities features in the following genres: Speaking in public: advice and guides, Communication studies, Regional / International studies, Media studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Geography, Information technology: general topics, Internet guides and online services, Educational: Social sciences, social studies
Hardback, Paperback. Not Available.
Privileged Mobilities was written by Erika Polson and published by Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Privileged Mobilities has 196 pages
Yes it is part of Intersections in Communications and Culture series