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Migrant Professionals in the City: Local Encounters, Identities and Inequalities (Routledge Advances in Sociology) - Softcover

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9780415793087: Migrant Professionals in the City: Local Encounters, Identities and Inequalities (Routledge Advances in Sociology)
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ISBN 10: 0415793084 ISBN 13: 9780415793087
Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

The migration of professionals is widely seen as a paradigmatic representation and a driver of globalization. The global elite of highly qualified migrants―managers and scientists, for example―are partly defined by their lives’ mobility. But their everyday lives are based and take place in specific cities. The contributors of this book analyze the relevance of locality for a mobile group and provide a new perspective on migrant professionals by considering the relevance of social identities for local encounters in socially unequal cities. Contributors explore shifting identities, senses of belonging, and spatial and social inequalities and encounters between migrant professionals and ‘Others’ within the cities. These qualitative studies widen the understanding of the importance of local aspects for the social identities of those who are in many aspects more privileged than others.

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About the Author

Lars Meier is Lecturer at the Department of Sociology at the Technical University of Berlin.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415793084
ISBN 13 
9780415793087
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
274
Editor
Meier Lars