Redes transnacionais entre profissionais “expatriados” ou expats

Abstract

The present article analyzes the social bonds constituted bytransnational professionals or ‘expats’ as they are called by themarket. Through these professionals' geographical displacements, ithad been analyzed the ties of friendship constituted along themobility; the constitution of a transnational social space in whichother groups and individuals are moved; the construction oftransnational social bonds among those that move; and theinfluences of the capitalist company in the mobility.Along this itinerary dictated by the capital, however, they are goingconstituting sociability forms with those that cross his/heritinerary, they try and they strengthen relationships of friendship inwhich benefit with the generosity, the solidarity and other elementsthat the territory of the friendship produces. They are not a group,but they live those experiences of social content and for that theygive to the mobility a social dimension.The data and analyze here presented were systematized in elapsingof the process of my doctor pos graduate, under orientation of ProfaDra Márcia Regina da Costa and they reveal some of the themes ofinterest of the nostalgic anthropologist: transnational nets,sociability and territory.