Gyorgy TURY, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
Zoltan SZANTO, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
In this presentation I will look at a limited number of well-defined aspects of the phenomena that we can call the spatiotemporal dynamics created by transnational professionals. This is in reference to a claim by C. Young (2018) in B. Harrington and L. Seabrooke (2020) that “while only 3.2% of the world’s people live outside the country of their birth—and many of them are young, poor, and ill-educated—transnational professionals, as a minority of a minority, wield outsize influence” (402).
The characteristics of transnational professionals include but are not limited to: i) high-level abstract knowledge (applicable to phenomena that transcend national boundaries); ii) high mobility across national and organizational settings; iii) social and cultural capital (including language skills and habitus); and iv) distributed agency to shape global practices. In the context of contemporary 21st century globalization and migration, I will more specifically look at the characteristics of the sociocultural and spatial/geographic patterns of families of transnational professionals in the East-Central European post-socialist space -- and the (digital) tools that make their research possible.
Relying on recent theoretical and empirical results in global-city research (for example S. Yamamura, 2019) I will also examine how transnational professionals’ socio-spatial practices contribute to the constitution of the transnational space in one of the most significant metropolitan areas of the East-Central European post-socialist region: Budapest. Paying attention to both micro- and macrostructural forces and aspects that shape and result in such practices I will try to answer the question of how transnational professionals in the East-Central European region maintain and develop multiple relations that span and transcend borders and connect them to two or multiple societies and localities (both physical and virtual) simultaneously.
Mots clés : global-city research|mobility|multiple localities|transnational professionals|transnational space
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