Full Description
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 professionals to middle class migrants in search of extended educational and career opportunities to people seeking self development through travel, either by moving after retirement or visiting educational retreats. These situations, however, converge in the significant resources, variously of finances, time, credentials or skills, which these voyagers are able to call on in embarking on their respective journeys. Accordingly, this volume seeks to tease out the scope and implications of the relatively privileged circumstances under which these voyages are being undertaken.
Contents
Chapter 1. Structures and Dispositions of Travel and Movement
Vered Amit
Chapter 2. Middle-Class Japanese Housewives and the Experience of Transnational Mobility
Sawa Kurotani
Chapter 3. Living in a Bubble: Expatriates' Transnational Spaces
Meike Fechter
Chapter 4. Globalization through "Weak Ties": A Study of Transnational Networks Among Mobile Professionals
Vered Amit
Chapter 5. Traveling Images, Lives on Location: Cinematographers in the Film Industry
Cathy Greenhalgh
Chapter 6. Privileged Travelers? Migration Narratives in Families of Middle-Class Caribbean Background
Karen Fog Olwig
Chapter 7. How Privileged Are They? Middle-Class Brazilian Immigrants in Lisbon
Angela Torresan
Chapter 8. Imagined Communitas: Older Migrants and Aspirational Mobility
Caroline Oliver
Chapter 9. Privileged Time: Volunteers' Experiences at a Spiritual Retreat Center in Hawaii
Margaret C. Rodman
Notes on Contributors
Index
