Going First Class?

New Approaches to Privileged Travel and Movement
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-84545-196-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 172 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 406 g

Reihe: EASA Series

People travel as never before. However, anthropological research has tended to focus primarily on either labor migration or on tourism. In contrast, this collection of essays explores a diversity of circumstances and impetuses towards contemporary mobility. It ranges from expatriates to peripatetic professionals to middle class migrants in search of extended educational and career opportunities to people seeking self development through travel, either by moving after retirement or visiting educational retreats. These situations, however, converge in the significant resources, variously of finances, time, credentials or skills, which these voyagers are able to call on in embarking on their respective journeys. Accordingly, this volume seeks to tease out the scope and implications of the relatively privileged circumstances under which these voyages are being undertaken.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Amit, Vered

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen Tourismuswirtschaft, Gastgewerbe
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Structures and Dispositions of Travel and Movement

Vered Amit

Chapter 2. Middle-Class Japanese Housewives and the Experience of Transnational Mobility

Sawa Kurotani

Chapter 3. Living in a Bubble: Expatriates’ Transnational Spaces

Meike Fechter

Chapter 4. Globalization through “Weak Ties”: A Study of Transnational Networks Among Mobile Professionals

Vered Amit

Chapter 5. Traveling Images, Lives on Location: Cinematographers in the Film Industry

Cathy Greenhalgh

Chapter 6. Privileged Travelers? Migration Narratives in Families of Middle-Class Caribbean Background

Karen Fog Olwig

Chapter 7. How Privileged Are They? Middle-Class Brazilian Immigrants in Lisbon

Angela Torresan

Chapter 8. Imagined Communitas: Older Migrants and Aspirational Mobility

Caroline Oliver

Chapter 9. Privileged Time: Volunteers’ Experiences at a Spiritual Retreat Center in Hawaii

Margaret C. Rodman

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Amit, Vered
Vered Amit is Professor of Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.  She received her Ph.D. from the University of Manchester and is the author or editor of 11 books including Young Men in Uncertain Times (co-ed with Noel Dyck, Berghahn, 2011), The Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology (Routledge, 2004), and The Trouble with Community (co-ed with Nigel Rapport).

Vered Amit is Professor of Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.  She received her Ph.D. from the University of Manchester and is the author or editor of 11 books including Young Men in Uncertain Times (co-ed with Noel Dyck, Berghahn, 2011), The Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology (Routledge, 2004), and The Trouble with Community (co-ed with Nigel Rapport).