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The globalization of cultural consumption is inseparable from the growing emphasis placed on the value of mobility: the mobility of cultural products and imaginaries, but also the mobility of individuals and populations as a whole, of entire societies grappling with powerful translational processes that attempt to eliminate their borders. This chapter reveals multiple and contrasting links between aesthetico-cultural cosmopolitanism and a sense of belonging, and real or imagined forms of mobility. Perhaps surprisingly, aspirations to mobility appear to have a greater impact than actual experiences of mobility on one’s degree of openness to alterity through aesthetico-cultural cosmopolitanism. Finally, a sense of national belonging is, in fact, the most favourable to openness, while sub-national affiliations at the local level make openness more difficult.
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http://www2.unwto.org/agora/indirect-impact-tourism-economic-analysis. Access on April 2016.
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Individuals born in French overseas territories and departments did not designate those regions as foreign countries in which they were interested.
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Man, 21 years old, born in France, pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Japanese, works in a recreation centre, lives with his parents in the Île-de-France region; father is Egyptian and mother is Algerian.
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Woman, 22 years old, born in Taiwan, holds a baccalaureate in economic and social studies from a French high school, formerly attended preparatory courses, now pursuing her studies in a leading business school in Paris, lives in Paris with her sister (who is attending preparatory courses); both parents are Taiwanese but live in Shanghai.
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Woman, 18 years old, pursuing a bachelor’s degree in law, lives with her parents in Paris; both parents are French.
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These results were obtained by cross-tabulating the scales of belonging (the first and second ones chosen by interviewees).
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Woman, 22 years old, born in Taiwan, holds a baccalaureate in economic and social studies from a French high school, formerly attended preparatory courses, now pursuing her studies in a leading business school in Paris, lives in Paris with her sister (who is attending preparatory courses); both parents are Taiwanese but live in Shanghai.
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Man, 21 years old, born in France, pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Japanese, works in a recreation centre, lives with his parents in the Île-de-France region; father is Egyptian and mother is Algerian.
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Man, 22 years old, born in France, pursuing studies in osteopathy, lives in Paris with his girlfriend; both parents are French.
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Man, 27 years old, born in Senegal, works as an orderly in a Paris hospital, lives with his younger brother in the north of Paris; both parents are Senegalese.
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Man, 22 years old, holds a BTS (associate’s degree) in accounting, works part-time, lives alone in the Île-de-France region; both parents are French.
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Woman, 20 years old, born in France, holds a baccalaureate in in economic and social studies, works as a waitress in a restaurant, lives with her mother in a “ZUS”—sensitive urban area—in the north of Paris;, both parents are French.
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Man, 26 years old, born in France, lives with his parents in Suresnes; both parents are Moroccan; holds a master’s degree in business development.
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Male, 23 years old, born in France, finishing his studies to be a special education teacher and currently completing an internship, lives with his brother in a small town in the Seine-et-Marne region; both parents are French.
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Woman, 26 years old, born in France, holds a professional baccalaureate in secretarial accounting, currently looking for work, lives with her mother in the Île-de-France region; both parents are Portuguese and she lived for one year in Portugal.
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Woman, 21 years old, born in Le Mans, pursuing a master’s degree in education, studying for her teacher certification exam and is working as a monitor in a Paris high school located in a priority education zone, lives with her sister in Paris; both parents are French.
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Man, 18 years old, born in France, a first-year medical school student, lives with his parents in Saint-Cloud (Île-de-France region, south-west of Paris); father is Swiss, mother is French.
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Man, 24 years old, born in France, pursuing a master’s degree in computer science research and working full-time as an educational assistant for elementary school children with disabilities; father is Italian and mother is Indian. He lives with his parents in the Île-de-France region
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Man, 22 years old, born in France, pursuing studies in osteopathy, lives in Paris with his girlfriend; both parents are French.
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French citizens originally from overseas territories or departments have higher mobility scores through travel abroad than residents of metropolitan France if looking at average mobility (out of 100 young people born in French overseas regions, 45% have visited 1 or 2 foreign countries, compared to 27% of French metropolitan natives), but lower mobility scores when talking about greater mobility, seeing as part of their mobility is constrained by having to return to their native overseas territories and departments.
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Cicchelli, V., Octobre, S. (2018). Mobility and Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism. In: Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism and French Youth. Consumption and Public Life. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66311-1_8
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