Modalities of cosmopolitanism and mobility: parental education strategies of global, immigrant and local middle-class Israelis

TY - JOUR

T1 - Modalities of cosmopolitanism and mobility

T2 - parental education strategies of global, immigrant and local middle-class Israelis

AU - Maxwell, Claire

AU - Yemini, Miri

PY - 2019/9/3

Y1 - 2019/9/3

N2 - In this study, we explore how different forms of family mobility shape parental education strategies of three middle-class groups (moored Israeli professionals, immigrants from Israel to the UK and global middle class Israeli families). By focusing on families from the same nationality, we show how different practices of mobility differentiate between these middle-class fractions. Building on Andreotti’s framework for ‘global mindedness’ we suggest that orientations to cosmopolitanism also differentiate between these groups–from tourism (moored middle class), to empathy (immigrant middle class), to visiting (global middle class). By drawing on this conceptualisation, it is possible to understand why, despite the considerable uncertainty that constant mobility generates for children’s education and futures, global middle-class parents appear to assuredly navigate processes of securing and transmitting advantage.

AB - In this study, we explore how different forms of family mobility shape parental education strategies of three middle-class groups (moored Israeli professionals, immigrants from Israel to the UK and global middle class Israeli families). By focusing on families from the same nationality, we show how different practices of mobility differentiate between these middle-class fractions. Building on Andreotti’s framework for ‘global mindedness’ we suggest that orientations to cosmopolitanism also differentiate between these groups–from tourism (moored middle class), to empathy (immigrant middle class), to visiting (global middle class). By drawing on this conceptualisation, it is possible to understand why, despite the considerable uncertainty that constant mobility generates for children’s education and futures, global middle-class parents appear to assuredly navigate processes of securing and transmitting advantage.

KW - Beck

KW - cosmopolitanism

KW - Global middle class

KW - global mindedness

KW - mobility

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85060641259&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/01596306.2019.1570613

DO - 10.1080/01596306.2019.1570613

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:85060641259

SN - 0159-6306

JO - Discourse

JF - Discourse

ER -