Research on Expatriates in London, New York, Paris, Shanghai, Singapore, Dubai. Presentation at the Association of American Geographers Meeting in New York City, 28 Feb 2012
New Conceptions of Home for Young Mobile Persons in 6 Global Cities
1. “There’s No Place Like Home”
New Conceptions of Home for Young Mobile
Persons in 6 Global Cities
Kennie Ting
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting
28 February 2012
4. Methods
Ethnographic Approach
o Everyday Challenges, Frustrations and Pleasures of
Relocation and Home-making?
o What is Home?
Deconstructive Close-reading
o Paying attention not just to what they say but how
they say it
o Analysing moments of clarity in the conversation