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

Publication Data

• Title Going first class? : new approaches to privileged travel and movement
• Contributor Vered Amit
• Publisher Berghahn Books
• Publication date 2007
• Publication location New York
• Language English

Contents

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.

Topics

• Emigration and immigration :: Social aspects :: Case studies
• Transnationalism :: Social aspects :: Case studies
• Travel :: Social aspects :: Case studies
• Elite (Social sciences) :: Travel :: Case studies

Going first class? : new approaches to privileged travel and movement. ISBN 9781845451967. Published by Berghahn Books in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.