Skip to main content

Lund University Publications

LUND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Cosmopolitan practices in social contexts: Swedish skilled migrants in the Netherlands

Andersson, Magnus LU (2013) In Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture 4(2). p.155-173
Abstract
Empirical work on cosmopolitanism has, to a large extent, focused on the precon- ditions for and character of cosmopolitan practices. Drawing on interviews with Swedish skilled migrants in the Netherlands, this article contributes to the cosmo- politan research by focusing on the socially structured variety of cosmopolitan practices. Based on an understanding of cosmopolitanism as an active and reflex- ive process of sociocultural identifications, this article argues that there is a range of cosmopolitanisms, built on an elective relationship to place of residence, country of origin and transnational socialities. Hence, there is no universal cosmopolitan logic but different sets of cosmopolitan practices that are related to migrants’... (More)
Empirical work on cosmopolitanism has, to a large extent, focused on the precon- ditions for and character of cosmopolitan practices. Drawing on interviews with Swedish skilled migrants in the Netherlands, this article contributes to the cosmo- politan research by focusing on the socially structured variety of cosmopolitan practices. Based on an understanding of cosmopolitanism as an active and reflex- ive process of sociocultural identifications, this article argues that there is a range of cosmopolitanisms, built on an elective relationship to place of residence, country of origin and transnational socialities. Hence, there is no universal cosmopolitan logic but different sets of cosmopolitan practices that are related to migrants’ biographies and lifestyles and, therefore, expressed in different fields and contexts of social space. (Less)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
author
publishing date
type
Contribution to journal
publication status
published
subject
keywords
transnational relations social space, skilled migrants, cosmopolitan practices, identity cultural sociology
in
Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture
volume
4
issue
2
pages
155 - 173
publisher
Intellect Ltd.
ISSN
2040-4352
language
English
LU publication?
no
id
43405e49-0ed7-4014-b39f-5245fa622dfd (old id 4378064)
date added to LUP
2016-04-01 11:07:17
date last changed
2018-11-21 19:55:26
@article{43405e49-0ed7-4014-b39f-5245fa622dfd,
  abstract     = {{Empirical work on cosmopolitanism has, to a large extent, focused on the precon- ditions for and character of cosmopolitan practices. Drawing on interviews with Swedish skilled migrants in the Netherlands, this article contributes to the cosmo- politan research by focusing on the socially structured variety of cosmopolitan practices. Based on an understanding of cosmopolitanism as an active and reflex- ive process of sociocultural identifications, this article argues that there is a range of cosmopolitanisms, built on an elective relationship to place of residence, country of origin and transnational socialities. Hence, there is no universal cosmopolitan logic but different sets of cosmopolitan practices that are related to migrants’ biographies and lifestyles and, therefore, expressed in different fields and contexts of social space.}},
  author       = {{Andersson, Magnus}},
  issn         = {{2040-4352}},
  keywords     = {{transnational relations social space; skilled migrants; cosmopolitan practices; identity cultural sociology}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{2}},
  pages        = {{155--173}},
  publisher    = {{Intellect Ltd.}},
  series       = {{Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture}},
  title        = {{Cosmopolitan practices in social contexts: Swedish skilled migrants in the Netherlands}},
  volume       = {{4}},
  year         = {{2013}},
}