Privileged Mobilities: Professional Migration, Geo-Social Media, and a New Global Middle Class

By Erika Polson

As corporations ramp up workforce globalization, social entrepreneurs use online digital platforms to create offline social events where foreigners can meet face-to-face. Through ethnographic study, Erika Polson illustrates how, as a new generation of expatriates uses location technologies to create mobile places, a new global middle class is emerging.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433130270
• ISBN13: 9781433130274
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"