Virtual Migration: The Programming of Globalization

by A. Aneesh

This exciting study shows how software-flows replace people-flows in an emerging transnational virtual space aneesh compellingly argues that the programming code connecting globally dispersed workers through data servers and computer screens is the key organizing structure behind the growing phenomenon of virtual migration he therefore maps the expanding transnational space where globalization is enacted via the computer programming code he draws on the sociology of science, social theory, and research on migration to illuminate the practical and theoretical ramifications of virtual migration, and then brilliantly combines these insights with his extensive ethnographic research on computer programmers in three locations in india—delhi, gurgaon, and noida—and one in new jersey aneesh not only interprets the phenomenon of body shopping in the light of virtual migration, but also provides a series of suggestions to improve policymaking in this rapidly changing area of the global economy

202 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2006

About the author

A. Aneesh is Director of the Institute of World Affairs and Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He is the author of Virtual Migration: the Programming of Globalization, also published by Duke University Press.