Punjabi Dalit transnational mobility

2018 ◽  
pp. 123-141
Author(s):  
Steve Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Transnational Mobility

Book Review

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-390
Author(s):  
Antonina Levatino
Keyword(s):  
Control Strategies ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Transnational Mobility ◽  
Migration Management ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Migration Control ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Controversial Nature

Martin Geiger & Antoine Pécoud (eds.), Disciplining the Transnational Mobility of People, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 271 pp., (ISBN 978-1-137-26306-3).In the last decades a very diverse range of initiatives have been undertaken in order to intensify and diversify the ways human mobility is managed and restricted. This trend towards a ‘diversification’ of the migration control strategies stems from the increased awareness by the nation-states of the profoundly controversial nature of the migration management enterprise because of its political, economic, social and moral implications.

Moving to paradise for the children’s sake

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mari Korpela
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
Lifestyle Choice ◽  
Transnational Mobility ◽  
Children’S Views

Increasing numbers of “Western” families spend several months a year in Goa, India, and the rest of the time in the parents’ passport countries or elsewhere. These “lifestyle migrants” are motivated by a search for “a better quality of life”, and the parents often claim that an important reason for their lifestyle choice is that it is better for the children to be in Goa, where they have enriching experiences and enjoy playing freely outdoors, in a natural environment. This article discusses parents’ and children’s views of this lifestyle. It argues that although the lifestyle sometimes causes moral panic among outsider adults who see regular transnational mobility as a sign of instability, a closer look reveals that there are various aspects of stability in the children’s lives. Paying careful attention to the parents’ and children’s own accounts, and the empirical realities of their lives, enables us to reach beyond normative judgements.

Book Reviews

Transfers ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 131-149
Keyword(s):  
Sex Workers ◽  
Global City ◽  
Viet Nam ◽  
Community Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Transnational Mobility ◽  
Yellow Peril ◽  
David Walker ◽  
And Migration

Yogesh Sharma, ed., Coastal Histories: Society and Ecology in Pre-Modern India Debojyoti DasJason Lim, A Slow Ride into the Past: The Chinese Trishaw Industry in Singapore 1942–1983 Margaret MasonXiang Biao, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, and Mika Toyota, eds., Return: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia Gopalan BalachandranAjaya Kumar Sahoo and Johannes G. de Kruijf, eds., Indian Transnationalism Online: New Perspectives on Diaspora Anouck CarsignolKieu-Linh Caroline Valverde, Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community, Culture, and Politics in the Diaspora Yuk Wah ChanChristine B.N. Chin, Cosmopolitan Sex Workers: Women and Migration in a Global City Lilly Yu and Kimberly Kay HoangDavid Walker and Agnieszka Sobocinska, eds., Australia's Asia: From Yellow Peril to Asian Century Daniel OakmanValeska Huber, Channelling Mobilities: Migration and Globalisation in the Suez Canal Region and Beyond, 1869–1914 Vincent LagendijkBieke Cattoor and Bruno De Meulder, Figures Infrastructures: An Atlas of Roads and Railways Maik HoemkeKlaus Benesch, ed., Culture and Mobility Rudi Volti

scholarly journals Physical activity, sport and transnational migrant spaces in Shanghai, China: (Re)crafting contours of a metropolitan cityscape

2021 ◽  
pp. 101269022110094
Author(s):  
Geoffery Zain Kohe ◽  
Daniel Nehring ◽  
Mengwei Tu
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Community Formation ◽  
Urban Citizenship ◽  
Transnational Mobility ◽  
Highly Skilled Migrants ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Globally Attractive ◽  
Skilled Migrant

This study examines associations between sport/physical activity space, community formation and social life among Shanghai’s highly skilled migrant demographic. There is limited illustration of the roles sport and physical exercise provision and spaces play in this migrant cohort’s lives, community formation and participation in their host societies. Yet, such evidence is of value in determining social policy, urban development and community engagement initiatives. Using a mixed-methods approach involving public policy critique, cultural and spatial analysis and virtual community investigation, this article provides a conceptual exploration of ways sport and physical activity frame individual and collective migrant experiences, and how such experiences enmesh with wider geo-spatial, political and domestic context. Amid Shanghai’s presentation as a globally attractive space, we reveal some of the complexities of the cityscape as an emblematic location for highly mobile, highly skilled migrants. A confluence of ideals about urban citizenship, social participation and localised physical activity/sport-based (inter)action, we note, articulate Shanghai anew, and contribute to debates on highly skilled transnational mobility and community formation.

The Would-Be Migrant: Post-Socialist Primitive Accumulation, Potential Transnational Mobility, and the Displacement of the Present in Northeast China

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiang Biao
Keyword(s):  
Northeast China ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
Primitive Accumulation ◽  
Central Figure ◽  
Transnational Mobility ◽  
Accumulation Potential ◽  
Do So

AbstractThis article argues that ‘would-be migrants’ – people who prepare for migrating overseas to the extent that their present lives are significantly changed – should become a central figure in migration studies. There are many more would-be migrants than actual migrants, and they also have deeper impacts on migration processes and local societies. Instead of treating the would-be migrant as a derivative of the category of ‘migrant’, this article establishes it as the primary figure, and argues that migration is a contingent outcome of being a ‘would-be’. In order to do so this article delves into the living conditions of would-be migrants in northeast China, with a focus on two aspects that concern them the most: the exorbitant intermediary fees and the high risks involved. The would-be migrants' experiences suggest that the prevalent pattern of unskilled outmigration since the 1990s should be understood as a result of developments inside of China, particularly a condition that I call the ‘displacement of the present’. The figure of would-be migrant is not only methodologically revealing for migration studies, but also urges us to rethink how we may engage with rapid social changes.

LGBT Refugees and the Visual Representation of Transnational Mobility

Transfers ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Ernst van der Wal
Keyword(s):  
Life Stories ◽  
Visual Representation ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Narrative Self ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Transnational Mobility ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender

This article examines how photographic interviews can be used to represent the life stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender refugees. Transnational and cross-border movements have a significant impact on the photographic and narrative self-representation of such refugees. By focusing on the example of a photographic interview project, The Story That Travelled, this article demonstrates how ideas surrounding community, citizenship, and transnational mobility are interpreted and visualized by refugees who have fled their countries of origin because of their sexuality and/or gender. In addition, this article considers how digital technologies impact lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender refugees and their experience and negotiation of borders.

scholarly journals Migrants' Resources: Multilingualism and Transnational Mobility. A Study on Learning Paths and School to Job Transition of Young Portuguese Migrants

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 369-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Fürstenau
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
School To Work ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Job Transition ◽  
Transnational Mobility ◽  
Work Transition ◽  
Learning Paths ◽  
Future Orientations ◽  
Migration Experiences

In this contribution, the results of an empirical study on young immigrants' learning paths and school to job transition are presented. The study focused on the strategies of successful students from the Portuguese immigrant minority in Hamburg. One aim was to find out whether the young people could profit by their migration experiences and multilingual skills. Increasing the multilingualism of individuals is an official goal of the European Union, and it is predicted that the labour market will give increasing importance to the ability to communicate and work in contexts of linguistic and cultural diversity. The question was, though, whether students from an immigrant minority, whose parents had come to Germany in the course of the labour recruitment, could benefit from this development. Interestingly, the young people of the sample turned out to be highly flexible during their future orientations, considering options in Germany as well as in their country of origin. Their strategies and orientations during school to work transition were analysed on the basis of Pierre Bourdieu's model of the linguistic market and from the perspective of the sociological concept of transnational migration.

scholarly journals THE COMMODIFICATION OF ENGLISH IN BRAZILIAN PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES: LANGUAGE IDEOLOGIES ENTEXTUALIZED IN THE SCOPE OF THE PROGRAM ENGLISH WITHOUT BORDERS

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (40) ◽  
pp. 101-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Tatianne Carréra Szundy
Keyword(s):  
Language Ideology ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Language Ideologies ◽  
Lingua Franca ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Transnational Mobility

In line with the dialogues that Brazilian applied linguists have established with the fields of sociolinguistics of globalization (BLOMMAERT, 2010) and language ideologies (WOOLARD, 1998; KROSKRITY, 2004) this paper focuses on the language ideologies entextualized in the scope of the program English Without Borders. Parting from the assumption that language faculties in Brazilian public universities have become markets in which English stands as a strategic commodity for students’ mobility in the scope of internationalization policies, discourses about English as the lingua franca for transnational mobility become arenas in which ideologies related to mobility, globalization and nativeness are (re)signified. Taking the program Languages Without Borders and, within it, English Without Borders, as one of these markets, I look into pieces of institutional discourses about the program to problematize the monolingual native-based language ideology and the colonial view of globalization entextualized in these discourses.  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Contesting Transnational Mobility among New Zealand’s Chinese Migrants from an Economic Perspective新西兰中国跨国移民的跨界经济活动及成因

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liangni Sally Liu ◽  
Jun Lu
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Economic Perspective ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Chinese Migrants ◽  
Transnational Mobility ◽  
Economic Revitalization

New Chinese migrants from the People’s Republic of China to New Zealand are renowned for their transnational mobility. Based on an online survey among this group of migrants, this paper aims to explore how economic factors in Chinese transnational migration play out in a way different from that posited by some conventional conceptions in migration studies. For example, compared with the conventional remittance flow that usually takes place from migrant-receiving countries to migrant-sending countries, this research finds a reverse remittance transaction channel among prc migrants. This reverse remittance flow is a manifestation of China’s economic revitalization, which benefited New Zealand, especially in the recent economic crisis. It was also found that economic reasons were not decisive in an immigrant’s decision to settle in New Zealand. However, economic reasons contributed significantly to their on-going movements after arriving in New Zealand. prc immigrants’ deciding to migrate or re-migrate reflects a layering of priorities that measure the short-term goal of maintaining economic livelihood against the longer-term goal of ensuring one’s family’s overall well-being.

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