This article examines whether and how globally mobile middle-class professional families engage in practices of nationalism through forging connections with a ‘home nation’ despite continuous relocations for work. Drawing on the concept of boundary objects which are used to facilitate frequent boundary crossings, we identify the promotion of language acquisition and cultural or national rituals and traditions as two central family practices that maintain strong connections to a form of national belonging despite being physically de-territorialised. We coin the term ‘mobile nationalism’ to make sense of the ways these globally mobile professional parents cultivate a sense of identity, coherence and the necessary resources for future mobility. We argue that these articulations of nationalism continue to be critical as we seek to understand subjecthood formation in the face of the imperatives of globalisation.

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流动民族主义：全球流动专业人士的养育和归属感

本文探讨了在全球范围内流动的中产阶级职业家庭是否以及如何通过与“母国”建立联系来参与民族主义实践，尽管他们不断因工作而搬迁。借鉴用于促进频繁跨越边界的边界物体的概念，我们将语言习得和文化或民族仪式和传统的促进确定为两个核心家庭实践，尽管在物理上被剥夺，但仍与一种民族归属形式保持密切联系。领土化。我们创造了“流动民族主义”一词来理解这些全球流动的专业父母培养身份感、一致性和未来流动性必要资源的方式。