Privileged Mobilities - Professional Migration, Geo-Social Media, and a New Global Middle Class (Paperback, New edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Intersections in Communications and Culture, 34
Release date:	June 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	Erika Polson
Dimensions:	225 x 150 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	196
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-3026-7
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Regional geography Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) > Specific skills > Speaking / pronunciation skills > Public speaking / elocution Promotions
LSN:	1-4331-3026-2
Barcode:	9781433130267

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