Mobile Entrepreneurs : An Ethnographic Study of the Migration of the Highly Skilled / / Katrin Sontag

• Autore: Sontag Katrin
• Pubblicazione: Leverkusen, : Budrich UniPress, 2018
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (171)
• Disciplina: 304.8
• Soggetto topico: Migration; Mobility; Entrepreneurship
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Mobile Entrepreneurs. An Ethnographic Study of the Migration of the Highly Skilled -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Research Question -- 1.2 The Field: Professional Groups -- 1.3 Methods: Biographical Interviews -- 1.4 Structure -- 2 The Field -- 2.1 Defining Professional Groups -- 2.2 Context: Entrepreneurship since the 1990s -- 2.3 Defining "Startup" -- 2.4 Approaches from Economics: Born Global10 -- 2.5 Neoliberalism -- 2.6 Entrepreneurship in the Social Sciences -- 2.7 Conclusion -- 3 Methods -- 3.1 The Sample -- 3.2 Interviews -- 3.3 The Field and Participant Observation -- 3.4 Analysis -- 3.5 Self-Reflection -- 4 Biographical Contexts of Migration -- 4.1 Short Portraits -- 4.2 Migration Strategies -- 4.3 Work related Migration? -- 4.4 Conclusion -- 5 Movement: Migration or Mobility? -- 5.1 Forms of Migration -- 5.2 Texture of Mobilities -- 5.3 Motility -- 5.4 Conclusion -- 6 The Meaning of the Local: Transurban Space -- 6.1 Ways of Mooring -- 6.2 Transurban Space -- 6.3 Creating Space -- 6.4 Conclusion -- 7 Orientation Schemes -- 7.1 Passung -- 7.2 Individual Motivations and Orientation -- 7.3 Conclusion -- 8 The Making of a Startup Scene -- 8.1 Capital, Co-working, Competing - Institutional Frames -- 8.2 Conclusion -- 9 Boundaries in Migration Research -- 9.1 "There are no migrants here - only global people" -- 9.2 Sedentariness -- 9.3 Methodological Nationalism -- 9.4 Methodical Localism -- 9.5 Conclusion -- 10 Trends in Migration Studies -- 10.1 Connectivities -- 10.2 Reflexivity -- 10.3 Positionality -- 10.4 Conclusion -- 11 Studying the "Highly Skilled" -- 11.1 "Highly Skilled" as Political and Economic Category -- 11.2 "We are Technicians, we are Developers, we are Dreamers" -- 11.3 Biography of Bildung -- 11.4 Conclusion -- 12 Studying up? -- 12.1 Methods -- 12.2 Access. ; 12.3 Attitude -- 12.4 Ethics -- 12.5 Conclusion -- 13 Conclusion -- 13.1 Mobilities of Startup Founders -- 13.2 Implications for Conceptualizing the Research Field -- 13.3 Situational Analysis -- Reference List -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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“.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mobile entrepreneurs
• ISBN: 9783863887902; 3863887905
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910284439303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II