Virtual Migration - The Programming of Globalization

"Virtual Migration is an exciting, innovative, and brilliant examination of how software flows replace people flows. It joins the urgent effort now underway in the social sciences to map a new field of inquiry." Saskia Sassen, coeditor of Digital Formations "Virtual Migration is a phenomenal book on a very important topic. A. Aneesh not only describes, explains, and interprets the phenomena of 'body shopping' and virtual migration in the global software industry, with especial emphasis on India and the United States; he also provides a series of suggestions to improve policymaking in these rapidly changing areas of the global economy." Mauro F. Guillen, Dr. Felix Zandman Professor of International Management in the Wharton School of Business and Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania "Virtual Migration is an exciting, innovative, and brilliant examination of how software flows replace people flows. It joins the urgent effort now under way in the social sciences to map a new field of inquiry."--Saskia Sassen, coeditor of Digital Formations "Virtual Migration is a phenomenal book on a very important topic. A. Aneesh not only describes, explains, and interprets the phenomena of 'body shopping' and virtual migration in the global software industry, with especial emphasis on India and the United States; he also provides a series of suggestions to improve policymaking in these rapidly changing areas of the global economy."--Mauro F. Guillen, Dr. Felix Zandman Professor in International Management, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania "This is a brilliant and innovative intervention in the study of globalization that demonstrates how much the specific forms taken by global institutional arrangements and processes depend on the structure and design of computer code. Virtual Migration will be invaluable not only to students in science and technology studies but to scholars in all fields interested in the troubled politics of the global movement of capital, technology, and people."--Akhil Gupta, author of Postcolonial Developments