Making Global Society

Abstract Submissions Closed

RC31 Sociology of Migration (host committee)

Language: English


Unlike the idea suggesting that a transnational capitalist class experiences a seemingly unproblematic global mobility, this session addresses the issues that frequently moving transnational professionals (and their families) struggle with, as a result of frequent moving. This session addresses the downside of global capitalism from the angle of the privileged globe-trotting transitional capitalist class.
Papers for this session should address several of the following themes:

  • theorizing globalization or transnationalization; 
  • cosmopolitan globalism or transnationalism; 
  • gender discrimination; 
  • ruptures, disjunctures and displacements; 
  • professional versus family life; 
  • the perpetual strangers; 
  • nomadic workers, de-territorialized identities and metropolitan socialities, making global society or nations-states’ migration regimes.
Session Organizer:
Caroline PLUSS, Univ Liverpool in Singapore, Singapore, C.Pluss@liverpool.ac.uk
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