Privilege in Migration

This open access book explores the transnational mobility of privileged migrants. The notion of privilege has the merit of bringing to light various less-studied forms of migration, such as retirement, lifestyle, investment, amenity, elite, highly skilled and international residential mobilities. This book investigates the concept of privilege and examines its analytical reach in capturing and describing migration processes of middle- and high-income people. It advances the notion that privilege entails a critical assessment of power differentials, and that privileged migration is inherently relational, thus requiring to be contrasted to less privileged experiences of migration marked by precarity, vulnerability and a lesser choice. Throughout its 12 chapters, the volume broadens the geography of lifestyle and privileged migration, from being overly focused on North-South migration to including privileged forms of mobility emerging among the middle and elite classes from new areasof accumulation in the Global South.

Chapter 1. Privilege in Migration: Mobilities, Inequalities, and the Urban Context (Franz Buhr and Hila Zaban).- Par 1. Conceptualising /Representations of Privileges.- Chapter 2. The Contours of Privilege: Exploring Narratives of Privilege in Globally Mobile Childhoods (Sophie Cranston).- Chapter 3. Privilege in International Migration an Analytical Framework: Digital Nomads as a Case in Point (Hari KC, Anna Triandafyllidou, and Nick Dreher).- Chapter 4. Identity Dynamics and Social Cohesion in Privileged Mobilities (Raquel Huete and Alejandro Mantecón).- Chapter 5. Intra-Racial Privilege: Japanese Migrant Families Negotiating Global Racial Hierarchies in Malaysia (Hiroki Igarashi).- Part 2. Gradients of Privilege.- Chapter 6. You Zoom through Border Control : Narratives of Privileged Mobility among Israeli IT Migrants (Nir Cohen and Steven J. Gold).- Chapter 7. Migration Beyond Marginality: Mobile Managerial Professionals Negotiating Privilege (Anna Spiegel).- Chapter 8. Sao Paulo as a Second-best Option: Classed Confidence and Fear of Failure in Privileged Migration (Helena Hof).- Chapter 9. Privileged Mobilities in Hard Times: The Case of Pandemic-years Jewish Migration to Israel (Hila Zaban).- Part 3. Privileged Mobilities and Local Urban Settings.- Chapter 10. Privileged Mobilities and Migrants' Businesses in Lisbon: Migrant Entrepreneurship in a Lifestyle Destination (Franz Buhr).- Chapter 11. From Trailing Spouses to Top Expat Urban Translators:  Blogging for (self)integration in and through Copenhagen (Tatiana Fogelman).- Chapter 12. Conclusion: Reassembling Privilege in the Migration Context (Hila Zaban and Franz Buhr).