Global Elite Migrations : Agency and Networks of Migrant-Artists from the Former Soviet Bloc

Zusammenfassung: 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.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 9783031678332
• Umfang: Online-Ressource, X, 230 p. 5 illus.
• Ausgabe: 1st ed. 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anmerkungen: online resource.

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wo): Cham
• (wer): Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Springer
• (wann): 2024
• Urheber: Isaakyan, Irina
• Beteiligte Personen und Organisationen: SpringerLink (Online service)

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-67833-2
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2410010414079.919443222877
• Inhaltsverzeichnis: 1. Introduction: The New Strange World of Global Elite Migrants -- 2. Global Elite Migrations: Mobility, Agency and Networks -- 3. “The Splendor and Miseries”: The Voice of a Real Person -- 4. Astrogation and Milestones -- 5. At the Crossroads of Temporariness and Mobility -- 6. Homeland Gravity: The Local, the National and the Global -- 7. Falling Through the Black Hole -- 8. The Cosmic Iceberg of Integration -- 9. To the Memory of a Star
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 25.03.2025, 13:47 MEZ