Mobile Entrepreneurs: An Ethnographic Study of the Migration of the Highly Skilled

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Verlag Barbara Budrich, Jul 16, 2018 - Social Science - 171 pages
Migration, mobility, and globalization are transforming ways of working and living. Business activities, relationships and a sense of belonging are often not tied to any one place. This book explores biographies of highly mobile startup founders who often run startups that have been called „born global“. It describes how they move, how they orientate and perceive themselves, and how migration and mobility play a role beyond the physical act of ‘moving’. Presenting current ethnographic research, the book critically discusses approaches in migration and mobility studies and the research field of the „migration of the highly skilled“.
 

Contents

List of Figures
8
Acknowledgements
9
1 Introduction
11
2 The Field
19
3 Methods
37
4 Biographical Contexts of Migration
49
Migration or Mobility?
69
Transurban Space
81
8 The Making of a Startup Scene
101
9 Boundaries in Migration Research
111
10 Trends in Migration Studies
123
11 Studying the Highly Skilled
129
12 Studying up?
141
13 Conclusion
149
Reference List
159
Index
171

7 Orientation Schemes
93

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Katrin Sontag (PhD), Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Basel, Department of Social Sciences, Subject Area Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Fellow at the National Center of Competence in Research nccr – on the move, Switzerland

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