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Virtual Migration - The Programming of Globalization (Hardcover, New)
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Virtual Migration - The Programming of Globalization (Hardcover, New)
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Workers in India program software applications, transcribe medical
dictation online, chase credit card debtors, and sell mobile
phones, diet pills, and mortgages for companies based in other
countries around the world. While their skills and labor migrate
abroad, these workers remain Indian citizens, living and working in
India. A. Aneesh calls this phenomenon "virtual migration," and in
this groundbreaking study he examines the emerging "transnational
virtual space" where labor and vast quantities of code and data
cross national boundaries, but the workers themselves do not.
Through an analysis of the work of computer programmers in India
working for the American software industry, Aneesh argues that the
programming code connecting globally dispersed workers through data
servers and computer screens is the key organizing structure behind
the growing phenomenon of virtual migration. This "rule of code,"
he contends, is a crucial and underexplored aspect of
globalization.Aneesh draws on the sociology of science, social
theory, and research on migration to illuminate the practical and
theoretical ramifications of virtual migration. He combines these
insights with his extensive ethnographic research in offices in
three locations in India-in Delhi, Gurgaon, and Noida-and one in
New Jersey. Aneesh contrasts virtual migration with "body
shopping," the more familiar practice of physically bringing
programmers from other countries to work on site, in this case,
bringing them from India to New Jersey. A significant contribution
to the social theory of globalization, Virtual Migration maps the
expanding transnational space where globalization is enacted via
computer programming code.
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