Call for Papers
AAG Annual Meeting, February 24-28, 2012, New York
Migration of Professionals and the City – Mobility, Locality and
Identities of Expatriates and the Global Elite
Panel organizer: Lars Meier (University of Munich)
The migration of professionals is widely seen as paradigmatic
representation and driver of globalization. It is the global elite of
highly qualified professionals like managers or scientists, which are
mainly defined by their mobile lives (Elliott/Urry 2010). But everyday
lives are also based and take place in specific cities. This session
aims to integrate papers that shed light on the everyday life of the
mobile global elite shifted between mobility and urban life
establishment in specific cities.
Professionals, the global elite and expatriates are also characterized
by their identities. Since the group of professionals is defined by its
class position – as global elite – it is of interest to investigate the
relevance of their class identity within the city. It would be also
appealing to get insights into the relevance of the professional gender
and ethnicity for their everyday life in the respective city.
This session compiles empirically based papers which shed light on one
of the following topics:
• Everyday life and practices of highly qualified migrants in a specific
city
• Relevance of identities like class, ethnicity and gender for the
global elite
• Encounters between the global elite and the other
• The power of locality on mobile lives
I invite proposals for oral presentation of a maximum of 250 words by
September 16, 2011. Please also provide your name, affiliation and
current email address. Authors will be notified of acceptance for
presentation in this session by September 20, 2011. Please note that
after acceptance of your abstract you have to register for the
conference, pay the attendance fee and upload your abstract to the
conference homepage.
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