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"The fourth edition of Mark Hutter's Experiencing Cities examines cities and larger metropolitan areas within a truly global framework, lending readers much to understand and appreciate about the variety of urban structures and processes and their effect on the everyday lives of people residing in cities. Beginning with the emergence of the first urban centers and continuing to examine the present-day and the future of smart cities, this book explores the changing cultural and domestic character of the metropolis and offers readers a complete historical and theoretical overview of municipal life. The new edition seamlessly integrates issues of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and class in its examination of city and suburban life, and further extends the Chicago School of Sociology perspective by combining its traditions with a distinct social psychological orientation derived from symbolic interaction and macro-level examination of social organization, social change, and power in the urban context. With this strong and sweeping interdisciplinary approach, the new edition of Experiencing Cities will continue to enrich students' understandings of urban life and offer new, forward-looking perspective to those working in the fields of urban sociology, history, politics, geography, and the arts"--

Nanny caretakers come from many countries throughout the world and serve families in many different countries. This paper will examine the complexity of the domestic emotional labor relationship that can exist between nanny caretakers and their charges—children or the elderly. It will give attention to the transnational social relationships that exist between nannies who maintain emotional, social, economic, and familial ties to their own family members who reside in their home countries while taking care of family members who live in the migrating country. Further, it will examine the development of relationships among family members who have joined the nannies in their foreign country. The impact of geographical mobility and separation on the processes of identification formation as well as processes of assimilation and acculturation to life in their new country will be investigated. The implications this has for future family relationships for nannies both in their country of origin and in their country of residence is of concern.