Globally mobile middle class lives in government secondary schools

Higginson, J. Wigmore; McLeod, Julie; Rizvi, Fazal

doi:10.1080/01596306.2019.1573887

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“…There has been a broad appropriation of the theoretical existence of a distinctive social group – the global middle class 1 (GMC) (Ball, 2010) – within recent scholarship (Higginson et al, 2019; Maxwell and Yemini, 2019; Yemini and Maxwell, 2018). The GMC are positioned as a transnational ‘service class’, a group of global professionals who facilitate the functions of transnational corporations and are responsible for the middle management tiers.…”

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Mobile Nationalism: Parenting and Articulations of Belonging among Globally Mobile Professionals

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This article examines whether and how globally mobile middle-class professional families engage in practices of nationalism through forging connections with a ‘home nation’ despite continuous relocations for work. Drawing on the concept of boundary objects which are used to facilitate frequent boundary crossings, we identify the promotion of language acquisition and cultural or national rituals and traditions as two central family practices that maintain strong connections to a form of national belonging despite being physically de-territorialised. We coin the term ‘mobile nationalism’ to make sense of the ways these globally mobile professional parents cultivate a sense of identity, coherence and the necessary resources for future mobility. We argue that these articulations of nationalism continue to be critical as we seek to understand subjecthood formation in the face of the imperatives of globalisation.

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confidence: 99%