The Distinct Pull of Dubai for Non-Western Expatriates
Since Saskia Sassen’s classic work describing New York, London, and Tokyo as global cities, other global cities have been identified and ranked largely using economic criteria. As nodes of corporate globalization, global cities are home to the offices of leading multinational corporations run by highly skilled migrants. As these cities vie for such talent, the analysts who assess and rank them, and even the policymakers who try to promote them, tend...