Overview
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Illuminates the increasingly salient topic of functioning of migrant networks
- Throws light on migrant agency, a central issue in migration scholarship
- Looks into an under-researched migrant population that contributes to the dissemination of global culture
Part of the book series: IMISCOE Research Series (IMIS)
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About this book
This open access book explores the lives and careers of migrating artists with the purpose to understand how they make use of their migrant-networks and how this process interacts with decisions they make about immigration and career development. Situated at the crossroads of Migration Studies and Elite Studies, this interdisciplinary research is based on sixty interpretive biographic interviews with opera singers from the former Soviet bloc who work in various places across Europe and beyond. The book raises the question to what extent they exercise agency as migrants and professionals and to what extent they preserve their professional elitism on the transnational level. The case of these migrant-artists serves to illuminate the dynamics of a wider phenomenon - global elite migrations - which is compared with an intergalactic journey. Through this sociological metaphor, the book offers a new analytical framework to think about the “agency-network” nexus.
Keywords
- Open Access
- Domestic work migration
- Global creative industry
- Globalization and nationalism
- High-skill migration
- Interpretive biographic interview
- Italy as an immigration context
- Migrant agency
- Migrating artists
- Migration brokers and intermediaries
- Migration, gender and sexuality
- Migrant network
- Privileged migrants
- Post-communist bloc
- Post-Soviet migrations
- Sexuality-based agency
- Soviet Russian opera
- Temporariness of migrants’ employment
- Transnational elite
- Global elite migrations
Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Irina Isaakyan is Senior Research Associate at the Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. Holding PhD from the University of Edinburgh, UK (2008), she has many years of university teaching and research experience in different countries, including Russia, Scotland, Italy and Canada. Her research interests include integration of skilled migrants, diaspora nationalism, elite migrations, migration and gender, interpretive research, and post-communist studies. Prior to joining the Toronto Metropolitan University, she had worked on a number of research projects at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, exploring migrants’ integration in a variety of national settings.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Elite Migrations
Book Subtitle: Agency and Networks of Migrant-Artists from the Former Soviet Bloc
Authors: Irina Isaakyan
Series Title: IMISCOE Research Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-67833-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-67832-5Published: 24 September 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-67835-6Due: 08 October 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-67833-2Published: 23 September 2024
Series ISSN: 2364-4087
Series E-ISSN: 2364-4095
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 230
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Migration, Public Policy