Privileged Mobilities: Professional Migration Geo-Social Media and a New Global Middle Class

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.Additional ISBNs9781433130267, 9781453917503, 1433130262, 1453917500, 9781433130274, 1433130270Privileged Mobilities: Professional Migration, Geo-Social Media, and a New Global Middle Class 1st Edition is written by Erika Polson and published by Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers. ISBNs for Privileged Mobilities are 9781454190356, 1454190353 and the print ISBNs are 9781433130267, 1433130262. Additional ISBNs include 1433130262, 1453917500, 1433130270, 9781433130267, 9781453917503, 9781433130274.