Going First Class? : : New Approaches to Privileged Travel and Movement /

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

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (172 p.)
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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

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