Cosmopolitan enclaves emerge at the intersection of global dynamics and local contexts as spaces where the cultivation of a cosmopolitan ethos encounters processes of socio-spatial boundary work and segregation. In the introduction to this special issue, we discuss under which circumstances the intention to cultivate open-mindedness goes hand in hand with keeping the local environment at bay. We argue that ethnographic attention to cosmopolitan enclaves may help bridge macro-level observations regarding globalization and its graduated sovereignties with the micro-level understanding of actual day-to-day interactions and boundary work within concrete spaces. We thus address the paradox of the omnipresence of enclaves in a global world and analyse the ambiguous aspirations and expectations derived from cosmopolitan ideals and how they relate to (under)privilege. While cosmopolitan aspirations exist alongside reproductions of postcolonial representations and hierarchies, they may also express the will to resist the politics of exclusion by demarcating an alternative safe haven.

国际化的飞地出现在全球动态和当地环境的交叉点，作为国际化精神的培养遇到社会空间边界工作和隔离过程的空间。在本期特刊的介绍中，我们讨论了在什么情况下培养开放心态的意图与保持当地环境密切相关。我们认为，对国际大都会飞地的人种学关注可能有助于将有关全球化及其分级主权的宏观观察与对具体空间内实际日常互动和边界工作的微观理解联系起来。因此，我们解决了飞地在全球世界中无处不在的悖论，并分析了源自世界主义理想的模棱两可的愿望和期望，以及它们与（不足）特权的关系。虽然世界主义的愿望与后殖民表征和等级制度的复制并存，但它们也可能表达了通过划定一个替代的避风港来抵制排斥政治的意愿。