ABSTRACT
One of the seminal studies in the area of local cosmopolitans who come from the lower socio-economic strata was conducted by Lamont and Aksartova, who explored the "cosmopolitanism" of working class men who did not have a college education in France and in the US The realities of "local cosmopolitanism" could be seen in other groups of people in society, as well, such as college students. Such experiences provide a foundation for critical analysis of exclusionary social structures. Despite some students' limited mobility, they did demonstrate a "global" frame of envisioning their future, in which travel was an integral part. The students were quite aware of those dynamics as the negative perceptions were not limited to those who may have had undocumented status and/or were first-generation immigrants but were generalized to the whole group. The explicit reference to "nonprofit," in both of the previous students' statements, denotes a clear distancing from the neoliberal cosmopolitan discourse.
