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

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415793084
• ISBN13: 9780415793087
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"