Going First Class? : : New Approaches to Privileged Travel and Movement / / ed. by Vered Amit.

• MitwirkendeR: Amit, Vered,; Fechter, Meike,; Greenhalgh, Cathy,; Kurotani, Sawa,; Oliver, Caroline,; Olwig, Karen Fog,; Rodman, Margaret C.,; Torresan, Angela,
• HerausgeberIn: Amit, Vered,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: EASA Series ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (172 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Structures and Dispositions of Travel and Movement -- 2 Middle-Class Japanese Housewives and the Experience of Transnational Mobility -- 3 Living in a Bubble Expatriates’ Transnational Spaces -- 4 Globalization through “Weak Ties” A Study of Transnational Networks among Mobile Professionals -- 5 Traveling Images, Lives on Location Cinematographers in the Film Industry -- 6 Privileged Travelers? Migration Narratives in Families of Middle-Class Caribbean Background -- 7 How Privileged Are They? Middle-Class Brazilian Immigrants in Lisbon -- 8 Imagined Communitas Older Migrants and Aspirational Mobility -- 9 Privileged Time Volunteers’ Experiences At a Spiritual Educational Retreat Center in Hawai’i -- Notes on Contributors -- Index