As corporations ramp up workforce globalization and young professionals increasingly pursue opportunities to work abroad social entrepreneurs use online digital platforms to create offline social events where foreigners can meet face-to-face. Through ethnographic study of such groups in Paris Singapore and Bangalore Erika Polson illustrates how as a new generation of expatriates uses location technologies to create mobile places a new global middle class is emerging. While there are many differences in the specifics between the expat groups they share certain characteristics that indicate a larger logic to the way that the increasing mobility of professional career paths is connected to new subjectivities and changing forms of community among a diverse and growing demographic. This book opens up a new field of study one which pays more attention to middle class mobility while questioning the privileging of mobility more generally. Language: English