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Imagining global work: Producing understandings of difference in ‘easy Asia’
- Source :
- Geoforum. :60-68
- Publisher :
- The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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Abstract
- In this paper, I advance debates that argue that we need to reconceptualise global work from a mobilities perspective by looking how the representation of movement connects with the experience of movement. By looking at the imaginative geographies of Singapore for the British corporate expatriate, I explore how the qualitative representation of place is changing within managerial discourses from a hardship to an opportunity. In doing so, the paper argues that we need to combine understandings of the global economic flows that move some transnational migrants with their everyday lived experiences in order to explore what qualitatively makes work global. This allows us to highlight the multiplicity of ways in which transnational migrants can be understood rather than trying to impose singularity.
- Subjects :
- Mobility
Sociology and Political Science
Mobilities
Expatriate
Global work
Lived experience
05 social sciences
Perspective (graphical)
0211 other engineering and technologies
0507 social and economic geography
021107 urban & regional planning
Gender studies
02 engineering and technology
Representation (arts)
Work (electrical)
Order (exchange)
Transnational migration
Political economy
Imaginative geography
Cosmopolitanism
Sociology
050703 geography
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00167185
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Geoforum
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8a94628e00a9059fd580711a84466b0e
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.02.008