The Psychology of Global Mobility

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Carr, Stuart C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: International and Cultural Psychology,
• Subjects: Psychology.; Sociology.; Demography.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Cross-cultural psychology.; Cross Cultural Psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Sociology, general.

The history of human beings is the history of global mobility, as evinced by the long journeys taken by our prehistoric ancestors. And more people are currently on the move than ever before: over 200 million worldwide, a larger population than most of the world’s countries. The Psychology of Global...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The Psychology of Global Mobility
• Introduction: The Psychology of Global Mobility
• Context
• Human Mobility in a Global Era
• Mixed-Methods Approaches to Contextually Grounded Research in Settings of Armed Conflict and Natural Disaster
• Ethical Psychological Practice with Geographically Mobile Individuals and Groups
• Motives
• Mobility and Personality
• Identity and Global Mobility
• Global Mobility, Local Economy: It’s Work Psychology, Stupid!
• The Psychology of Enforced Mobility
• Adjustment
• Global Mobility and Cross-Cultural Training
• Mobility and Acculturation
• Mobility and Inclusion
• New Settlement and Wellbeing in Oppressive Contexts: A Liberation Psychology Approach
• Performance
• Mobility and Careers
• Global Mobility and Bias in the Workplace
• Technology, Mobility, and Poverty Reduction.