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    Privileged Mobilities: Professional Migration, Geo-Social Media, and a New Global Middle Class (Intersections in Communications and Culture)

     
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    Privileged Mobilities: Professional Migration, Geo-Social Media, and a New Global Middle Class (Intersections in Communications and Culture)

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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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    EAN/ISBN:
    9781433130267
    Edition:
    New edition
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    196
    Publication date:
    2016-06-05
    Publisher:
    Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York
    Languages:
    english
    EAN/ISBN:
    9781433130267
    Edition:
    New edition
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    196
    Publication date:
    2016-06-05
    Publisher:
    Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York
    Languages:
    english

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