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

Omtale

The migration of professionals is widely seen as a paradigmatic representation and a driver of globalization. The global elite of highly qualified migrantsmanagers and scientists, for exampleare 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.