Global Elite Migrations
Agency and Networks of Migrant-Artists from the Former Soviet Bloc
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Beschreibung
This open access book explores the lives and careers of migrating artists with the purpose to understand how they make use of their migrant-networks and how this process interacts with decisions they make about immigration and career development. Situated at the crossroads of Migration Studies and Elite Studies, this interdisciplinary research is based on sixty interpretive biographic interviews with opera singers from the former Soviet bloc who work in various places across Europe and beyond. The book raises the question to what extent they exercise agency as migrants and professionals and to what extent they preserve their professional elitism on the transnational level. The case of these migrant-artists serves to illuminate the dynamics of a wider phenomenon - global elite migrations - which is compared with an intergalactic journey. Through this sociological metaphor, the book offers a new analytical framework to think about the “agency-network” nexus.
This open access book explores the lives and careers of migrating artists with the purpose to understand how they make use of their migrant-networks and how this process interacts with decisions they make about immigration and career development. Situated at the crossroads of Migration Studies and Elite Studies, this interdisciplinary research is based on sixty interpretive biographic interviews with opera singers from the former Soviet bloc who work in various places across Europe and beyond. The book raises the question to what extent they exercise agency as migrants and professionals and to what extent they preserve their professional elitism on the transnational level. The case of these migrant-artists serves to illuminate the dynamics of a wider phenomenon - global elite migrations - which is compared with an intergalactic journey. Through this sociological metaphor, the book offers a new analytical framework to think about the “agency-network” nexus.
This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access Illuminates the increasingly salient topic of functioning of migrant networks Throws light on migrant agency, a central issue in migration scholarship Looks into an under-researched migrant population that contributes to the dissemination of global culture
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Irina Isaakyan
Themen in »Global Elite Migrations«
Open Access Domestic work migration Global creative industry Globalization and nationalism High-skill migration Interpretive biographic interview Italy as an immigration context Migrant agency Migrating artists Migration brokers and intermediaries Migration, gender and sexuality Migrant network Privileged migrants Post-communist bloc Post-Soviet migrations