Migrant Professionals in the City: Local Encounters, by Lars Meier

By Lars Meier

The migration of pros is largely obvious as a paradigmatic illustration and a motive force of globalization. the worldwide elite of hugely certified migrants―managers and scientists, for example―are partially outlined by way of their lives’ mobility. yet their daily lives are dependent and occur in particular towns. The members of this ebook research the relevance of locality for a cellular workforce and supply a brand new viewpoint on migrant pros via contemplating the relevance of social identities for neighborhood encounters in socially unequal towns. participants discover moving identities, senses of belonging, and spatial and social inequalities and encounters among migrant pros and ‘Others’ in the towns. those qualitative stories widen the knowledge of the significance of neighborhood points for the social identities of these who're in lots of features extra privileged than others.

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By Lars Meier

The migration of pros is largely obvious as a paradigmatic illustration and a motive force of globalization. the worldwide elite of hugely certified migrants―managers and scientists, for example―are partially outlined by way of their lives’ mobility. yet their daily lives are dependent and occur in particular towns. The members of this ebook research the relevance of locality for a cellular workforce and supply a brand new viewpoint on migrant pros via contemplating the relevance of social identities for neighborhood encounters in socially unequal towns. participants discover moving identities, senses of belonging, and spatial and social inequalities and encounters among migrant pros and ‘Others’ in the towns. those qualitative stories widen the knowledge of the significance of neighborhood points for the social identities of these who're in lots of features extra privileged than others.

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