Virtual Migration : the programming of globalization.

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Examines the emerging "trans-national virtual space", where labour and vast quantities of code and data cross national boundaries, but the workers themselves do not. Through an analysis of the work of computer programmers in India working for the U.S. software industry, the author argues that the programming code that connects globally dispersed workers through data servers and computer screens is the key organizing structure behind the growing phenomenon of virtual migration. To bring out the particularities of virtual migration, compares it to the physical migration of programmers called "body shopping", the practice of bringing programmers from other countries to the United States (in this case, from India to New Jersey) to work on site.