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1 Introduction: Local Lives, Work and Social Identities of Migrant Professionals in the City
PART I Considerations of the City
2 Further Stay or Return? Insights from the Highly Educated Turkish Migrants in Amsterdam, Barcelona and London
3 Seeing ‘Difference’ Differently: Life Trajectories of Professional Migrants’ Children in Melbourne, Australia, and in Singapore
4 Learning the City by Experiences and Images: German Finance Managers’ Encounters in London and in Singapore
PART II Local Incorporation and Work
5 Agents of Local Incorporation: Skilled Migrant Organizations in Oslo, Norway
6 Germany for the Ambitious: Everyday Life of Russian Professionals in a Research Center in Jülich
7 Socializing Spouses in Gabon: The Petroleum Wives’ Club of Port-Gentil
PART III Local Encounters and Identities
8 Are Professional Migrants Elite? A Case of Japanese Expatriate and Host National Employees in Jakarta
9 ‘Londres Accueil’: Mediations of Identity and Place among the French Highly Skilled in London
10 Mining Minerals on the Moon and Other Fantasies of Extreme Expatriate Intervention in Kathmandu, Nepal
11 Translocal Lives: Polish Migrant Entrepreneurs in the Cities of the West Midlands, the United Kingdom
12 Cosmopolitans or New Americans? The Experiences and Social Identities of Colombian and Puerto Rican Software Engineers in Boston’s Route 128
13 British Transnational (Be)Longing: Emplacement in the Life of Skilled Migrants in Dubai
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