Migrant Professionals in the City: Local Encounters, Identities and Inequalities

ISBN-13: 9780415793087 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 262 str.

Lars Meier

Opis

This book analyses the relevance of locality for a mobile group and provides 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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Local Lives, Work and Social Identities of Migrant Professionals in the City  Lars Meier  Part I: Considerations of the City  2. Further Stay or Return?: Insights from the Highly Educated Turkish Migrants in Amsterdam, Barcelona and London  Zeynep Yanasmayan  3. Seeing "Difference" Differently: Life Trajectories of Professional Migrants’ Children in Melbourne, Australia and in Singapore  Gabrielle Désilets  4. Learning the City by Experiences and Images: German Finance Managers’ Encounters in London and Singapore  Lars Meier  Part II: Local Incorporation and Work  5. Agents of Local Incorporation: Skilled Migrant Organizations in Oslo, Norway  Micheline van Riemsdijk  6. Germany for the Ambitious: Everyday Life of Russian Professionals in a Research Centre in Jülich  Volha Vysotskaya  7. Socializing Spouses in Gabon: The Petroleum Wives’ Club of Port-Gentil  Lisa Toccafondi Shutt  Part III: Local Encounters and Identities  8. Are Professional Migrants Elite?: The Case of Japanese Expatriate and Host National Employees in Jakarta  Yukimi Shimoda  9. "Londres Accueil": Mediations of Identity and Place Amongst the French Highly Skilled in London  Jon Mulholland and Louise Ryan  10. Mining Minerals on the Moon and Other Fantasies of Extreme Expatriate Intervention in Kathmandu, Nepal  Heather Hindman  11. Translocal Lives: Polish Migrant Entrepreneurs in the Cities of the West Midlands, UK  Catherine Harris  12. Cosmopolitans or New Americans?: The Experiences and Social Identities of Colombian and Puerto Rican Software Engineers in Boston’s Route 128  Lina Rincón  13. British Transnational (Be)longing: Emplacement in the Life of Skilled Migrants in Dubai  Katie Walsh

O autorze

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