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082	0	0	_a331.544 _bLAR/M
245	0	0	_aMigrant professionals in the city: _blocal encounters, identities and inequalities / _cby Lars Meier (ed.)
260			_aNew York: _bRoutledge, _c2015.
300			_ax, 261 pages : _billustrations ;
490	1		_aRoutledge advances in sociology ;
520			_a"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"--
650		0	_aForeign Workers
650		0	_aProfessional Employees
650		0	_aLabor Market
650		0	_aUrban Sociology
650		0	_aSocial Sciences
700	1		_aLars Meier (ed.)
942			_cBK
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