Going First Class?

<p> People travel as never before. However anthropological research has tended to focus primarily on either labor migration or on tourism. In contrast this collection of essays explores a diversity of circumstances and impetuses towards contemporary mobility. It ranges from expatriates to peripatetic professionals to middle class migrants in search of extended educational and career opportunities to people seeking self development through travel either by moving after retirement or visiting educational retreats. These situations however converge in the significant resources variously of finances time credentials or skills which these voyagers are able to call on in embarking on their respective journeys. Accordingly this volume seeks to tease out the scope and implications of the relatively privileged circumstances under which these voyages are being undertaken.</p>