Overview
- Includes chapters which connect studies of mobility and motivation with development studies and international health
- Incorporates a global approach to the issue of mobility, taking into account various examples of mobility worldwide
- Offers a synthesis that is both multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: International and Cultural Psychology (ICUP)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Context
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Introduction: The Psychology of Global Mobility
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Performance
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Keywords
About this book
Human mobility has been a defining feature of human social evolution. In a global community, the term "mobility" captures the full gamut of types, directions, and patterns of human movement. The psychology of mobility is important because movement is inherently behavioral. Much of the behavioral study of mobility has focused on the negative – examining the trauma of forced migration, or the health consequences of the lack of adaptation – but this work looks into the benefits of mobility, such as its impact on career capital and well-being. Recent years have witnessed a phenomenal increase in efforts to understand human mobility, by social scientists, think-tanks, and policymakers alike. The book focuses on the transformational potential of mobility for human development.
The book details the historical, methodological, and theoretical trajectory of human mobility (Context), followed by sections on pre-departure incentives and predispositions (Motivation), influences on acculturation, health and community fit (Adjustment), and changes in career capital, overcoming bias, and diaspora networks (Performance).
Reviews
From the reviews:
“The Psychology of Global Mobility, was to assemble an international, multidisciplinary group of experts who could begin to quantify the psychological burden involved in human mobility, examine its benefits and disadvantages from the perspective of the person and the country, and provide an understanding of the drive for and result of global mobility. … Appropriate for both an academic and a practitioner audience … I would recommend as a text for a comprehensive discussion of geographic and virtual mobility for psychologists sociologists … .” (Judy E. Hall, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 55 (32), December, 2010)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Psychology of Global Mobility
Editors: Stuart C. Carr
Series Title: International and Cultural Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6208-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-6207-2Published: 28 July 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2626-4Published: 05 September 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-6208-9Published: 16 July 2010
Series ISSN: 1571-5507
Series E-ISSN: 2197-7984
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 342
Topics: Cross Cultural Psychology, Demography, Personality and Social Psychology, Sociology, general