Singaporean and British transmigrants in China and the cultural politics of ‘contact zones’

“El paro o Argelia”: la expatriación de los españoles en Argelia como salida laboral

“…Si hasta 2012 la movilidad laboral hacia Argelia representaba una oportunidad deseada y decidida de forma individual (Beaverstock, 2005;Yeoh y Willis, 2005;Sklair, 1997), posteriormente, los efectos de la crisis provocan que la expatriación se sienta como a una acción impuesta por la empresa o por la situación del mercado laboral, siendo una práctica no deseada pero necesaria. La segunda transformación más acusada introducida por la crisis se refiere a los cambios en las estrategias y formas de movilidad realizadas por estas personas, precisamente ligadas a la necesidad de evitar el desempleo.…”

British migrants and Irish anxieties

“…There is a growing body of work on retirement migration and lifestyle migration (Benson, 2010;King, Warnes, Warnes & Williams, 2000;Oliver, 2008;Oliver & O'Reilly, 2010;O'Reilly, 2000), student migration (Findlay, King, Stam & Ruiz-Gelices, 2006;King & Ruiz-Gelices, 2003) and return migration from Britain . There is also a small body of work on elite migration: on the transnational elites who populate the global cities so beloved of urban studies (Beaverstock, 2002(Beaverstock, , 2005Scott, 2006;Yeoh & Willis, 2005), while a recent focus on 'postcolonial migration' includes work on British migration to former colonies such as Hong Kong and Dubai (Coles & Walsh, 2010;Leonard, 2010). However, the overwhelming sense is of Britain as a place people immigrate to rather than emigrate from.…”

Critical perspectives on the globally mobile professional and managerial class

“…For example, a number of emerging literatures are engaging with how this global system is constructed and enacted (Dardot and Laval, 2013;Panitch and Gindin, 2012). There is also work on the global elite (Freeland, 2011;Harvey and Maclean, 2008;Rothkopf, 2008;Unruh and Cabrera, 2013); network capital (Richardson, Kakabadse, and Kakabadse, 2011); nomadic capital (Braidotti, 2011); global contact zones (Yeoh and Willis, 2005); global elite conferences (Carroll and Sapinski, 2010;Richardson et al, 2011); global philanthropy (Newland, Terrazas, and Munster, 2010); celebrity humanitarianism (Bell, 2013;Cooper, 2008;Kapoor, 2012) and; philanthrocapitalism (Bishop and Green, 2008). In many ways this global elite or transnational capitalist class constitutes a "semi-organized network of individuals from business, government, academia, civil society and the media" (Andersson and Calvano, this issue), as well as a network of formalized institutions, who seem to be organizing the global economy in a particular direction.…”