Going First Class?

New Approaches to Privileged Travel and Movement

170 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: EASA Series
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Soziale und ethische Themen Migration, Einwanderung und Auswanderung
• ISBN: 9781845451967
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2007
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Herausgegeben von: Vered Amit