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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.
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Keywords
- Domestic work migration
- Global creative industry
- Global elite migrations
- Globalization and nationalism
- High-skill migration
- Interpretive biographic interview
- Italy as an immigration context
- Migrant agency
- Migrant network
- Migrating artists
- Migration brokers and intermediaries
- Migration, gender and sexuality
- Post-communist bloc
- Post-Soviet migrations
- Privileged migrants
- Sexuality-based agency
- Soviet Russian opera
- Temporariness of migrants’ employment
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFH Migration, immigration and emigration
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPP Public administration
- Transnational elite
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-67833-2web: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-67833-2
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