idw – Informationsdienst Wissenschaft
Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
idw - Informationsdienst
Wissenschaft
05/16/2011 - 05/16/2011 | Berlin
EU free movement laws affect potential new avenues of professional mobility. Quantitative data from the PIONEUR project suggest that these European mobility opportunities are exacerbating existing inequalities between a mobile elite and immobile lower class populations. However, broken down by country of origin (esp. Spain) or country of destination (esp. Britain), as well as other variables, there is evidence of dramatic new social mobility for some: middle class “social spiralists”, who move out to move up, echoing Gouldner’s classic functionalist distinction between the different social trajectories of “cosmopolitans” and “locals” in periods of social change. Presenting some of my interviews-based ethnography in Amsterdam, London and Brussels, I will lay out some of the types of “spiralist” to be found in the integrating European space, focusing on new forms of south-to-north and province-to-metropole professional mobility; the pay-offs in certain professions by adventurous “pioneer” mobility; Eurocities as „third country“ spaces for cross-national romance; and the EU as a highly effective, positively gendered space for ambitious young women and others in search of alternative or non-heterosexual lifestyles.
Adrian Favell is Professor of European and International Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Information on participating / attending:
Date:
05/16/2011 18:00 - 05/16/2011 20:00
Event venue:
Reichpietschufer 50, Raum A 300
10785 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
Journalists, Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
transregional, national
Subject areas:
Politics, Social studies
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture
Entry:
03/16/2011
Sender/author:
Dr. Paul Stoop
Department:
Informations- und Kommunikationsreferat
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event34581
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