%0 Book
%A Erika Polson
%D 2015
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 1528-610X
%@ 9781453917503
%T Privileged Mobilities
%B Professional Migration, Geo-Social Media, and a New Global Middle Class
%R 10.3726/978-1-4539-1750-3
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1109658
%X 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.
%K Workforce globalization, Social entrepreneurs, Digital platforms, Expat groups, Young professionals, New Mobilities
%G English