ABSTRACT
The migration of professionals is widely seen as a paradigmatic representation and a driver of globalization. The global elite of highly qualified migrants—managers and scientists, for example—are 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|17 pages
Introduction
part I|56 pages
Considerations of the City
chapter 2|19 pages
Further Stay or Return?
chapter 3|19 pages
Seeing ‘Difference' Differently
chapter 4|16 pages
Learning the City by Experiences and Images
part II|60 pages
Local Incorporation and Work
chapter 6|17 pages
Germany for the Ambitious
part II|115 pages
Local Encounters and Identities