Vered Amit is Professor of Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Manchester and is the author or editor of 11 books including the forthcoming (with Noel Dyck) Young Men in Uncertain Times, the Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology and (with Nigel Rapport) The Trouble with Community.

• Chapter 1. Structures and Dispositions of Travel and Movement Vered Amit Chapter 2. Middle-Class Japanese Housewives and the Experience of Transnational Mobility Sawa Kurotani Chapter 3. Living in a Bubble: Expatriates' Transnational Spaces Meike Fechter Chapter 4. Globalization through Weak TiesA": A Study of Transnational Networks Among Mobile Professionals Vered Amit Chapter 5. Traveling Images, Lives on Location: Cinematographers in the Film Industry Cathy Greenhalgh Chapter 6. Privileged Travelers? Migration Narratives in Families of Middle-Class Caribbean Background Karen Fog Olwig Chapter 7. How Privileged Are They? Middle-Class Brazilian Immigrants in Lisbon Angela Torresan Chapter 8. Imagined Communitas: Older Migrants and Aspirational Mobility Caroline Oliver Chapter 9. Privileged Time: Volunteers' Experiences at a Spiritual Retreat Center in Hawaii Margaret C. Rodman Notes on Contributors Index

The publication of this book - is timely... Interesting and accessibly written, Going First Class? offers not only ethnographically rich reflections on the subject of privileged travel, but... it provides valuable critical insights on the nature of places and the methodological issues surrounding their study.A" * JRAI ... this collection of chapters deserves to be widely read and discussed - together, they demonstrate the imperative for ethnographic research in conversation, but not necessarily in cahoots, with reigning critical theories of modernity and the contemporary world.A" * Social Anthropology