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Going first class? : new approaches to privileged travel and movement /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Amit, Vered
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2011.
Colección:EASA series ; 7.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Structures and dispositions of travel and movement / Vered Amit
  • Middle-class Japanese housewives and the experience of transnational mobility / Sawa Kurotani
  • Living in a bubble : expatriates' transnational spaces / Meike Fechter
  • Globalization through "weak ties" : a study of transnational networks among mobile professionals / Vered Amit
  • Traveling images, lives on location : cinematographers in the film industry / Cathy Greenhalgh
  • Privileged travelers? migration narratives in families of middle-class Caribbean background / Karen Fog Olwig
  • How privileged are they? middle-class Brazilian immigrants in Lisbon / Angela Torresan
  • Imagined communitas : older migrants and aspirational mobility / Caroline Oliver
  • Privileged time : volunteers' experiences at a spiritual retreat center in Hawai'i / Margaret C. Rodman.