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The article argues that in addition to a critical engagement with categories that define dominant understandings of migration, more effort should be invested in looking at how different types of mobility and immobility are connected in real life. For this purpose, the article explores Lebanon’s unequal mobility structure from the perspective of upper-class women. It suggests that the upper-class women’s subject position should be analyzed in relation to the immobility of Lebanon’s other residents, including migrant workers and refugees. Based on ethnographic research and interviews, I show how upper classes’ lifestyles depend on services provided by migrant workers. At the same time, the migrant workers are racialized, considered inferior, and their mobility is constrained by the very same upper-class. This process of distancing from the migrants on the one hand, and the upper classes’ discursive rapprochement to things labelled as “Western” on the other ,  justifies their success and privileged positions.

Served by migrants: contextualizing elites’ mobile lifestyles