Affective Friendship that Constructs Globally Spanning Transnationalism: The Onward Migration of Filipino Workers from South Korea to Canada

Tsujimoto, Toshiko

doi:10.1080/17450101.2014.922362

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“…Ethnicity or national origin is clearly less important to our participants than long-term engagement, frequent interaction, shared experiences and affectivity, so we align with Morosanu's (2013) claim that the role of ethnicity in migrants' friendships should not be readily assumed. Tsujimoto (2016) describes how migrants' transnationalism exhibits cosmopolitanism through the reconfiguration of their compatriot friendship into globally spanning, multilocal ties. Kennedy's (2004) study of skilled migrants suggests that transnationalism is constructed through affectivity and shared experiences of friendship grounded in similar professions and lifestyles rather than in co-national or home connections (see also Marcu, 2012).…”

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The importance of friends: social life challenges for foreign physicians in Southern Sweden

Frykman

Mozetič

2019

Community, Work & Family

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The article connects the fields of work/non-work research with the research on social integration of migrants. It is based on in-depth interviews with foreign physicians in the south of Sweden which explored their work/non-work experiences and their subjective perceptions of managing work, family, social and private domains of life. Based on individual reflections of social life as experienced in the workplace, in the locations of everyday life and transnationally, the analysis does not pursue the existence and composition of social networks but focuses on non-instrumental aspects of social life and explores their significance for high-skilled migrants' own sense of integration. The findings suggest that migrants who are privileged in terms of education and employment still face extensive challenges in the social domain of life, especially with regard to close friendships. The findings furthermore suggest that social integration is a process that is influenced by place, time and individual life trajectories and therefore cannot be truthfully accounted for by looking at the numbers and ethnic composition of a migrant's social relations. It is the quality of relationsnotably friendshipsthat matters most. RÉSUMÉ Cet article associe les champs de la recherche sur le travail/nontravail avec la recherche sur ĺintégration sociale des migrants. Il est basé sur des entretiens approfondis avec des médecins étrangers basés dans le sud de la Suède, explorant leurs expériences professionnelles/non-professionnelles ainsi que leurs perceptions subjectives de la gestion de la vie professionnelle, familiale, sociale et privée. Fondée sur des réflexions individuelles sur la vie sociale vécue sur le lieu de travail, dans les lieux de la vie quotidienne et au niveau transnational, cette analyse ne cherche pas á étudier ĺexistence et la composition des réseaux sociaux, mais se concentre sur les aspects non-instrumentaux de la vie sociale et explore leur signification pour le sentiment d intégration des migrants hautement qualifiés. Les résultats suggèrent que, malgré des privilèges en termes d´éducation et d emploi, les migrants doivent encore faire face à des défis ARTICLE HISTORY

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The importance of friends: social life challenges for foreign physicians in Southern Sweden

Frykman

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2019

Community, Work & Family

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“…(Chisholm, 2014, p. 6) that involves a kind of compression of today and tomorrow, but also with 'no sense of life being planned from past to future along a line but decisions taken from time to time according to the situation' (Leccardi, 2005, p. 34, paraphrasing Rosa). This is particularly apparent for mobile youth, for whom these more dynamic (Kennedy, 2004;Tsujimoto, 2016;Walsh, 2018). These intimate friendship and family networks can also provide enduring ties to places, communities and localities, even while young people are absent and/or distant for long periods (Haikkola, 2013;Kim, 2015).…”

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Settling down in time and place? Changing intimacies in mobile young people's migration and life courses

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Baldassar

Robertson

2020

Population Space and Place

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Transnational mobility is increasingly presented to middle-class youth globally as a way to secure economic futures in precarious times by enhancing educational and employment opportunities. However, little is said about the benefits and impacts of mobility for social and intimate life and specifically how it is situated within, disruptive of, or incorporated into young people's ideas about relationships as they navigate uncertain pathways to adulthood. This paper critically reviews and integrates migration and youth studies scholarship to consider how contemporary youth mobility can be understood as disrupting standard migration-and life-course conventions about intimate relationships. It focuses particularly on questions of temporality, proximity and synchronicity or orthodoxies of 'the right time' and 'the right place' to 'settle down', in the construction and maintenance of both intimate connections to people and attachments to places. It explores how contemporary youth mobility can be seen to complicate notions of the appropriate staging and chronology for establishing different relationships. It raises questions about synchronicity, continuity and proximity as conditions of intimacy and considers how mobility potentially disrupts gendered and heteronormative life courses to provide both welcome freedoms and new challenges, as well as the emergence of new processes of transnational intergenerational care circulation.

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“…Because a focus on migration regimes is not limited to state actors and considers an ensemble of practices, this approach also highlights how different actors are involved in the enticement of migrants, or the making of desirable destinations (Tsujimoto 2016). Such enticement and its implications for the conditioning of migrant lives emerges in infrastructures of migration that can be characterized as commercial, regulatory, technological, humanitarian and social (Xiang and Lindquist 2014).…”

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‘Give me my pathway!‘: multinational migration, transnational skills regimes and migrant subjectification

Collins

2020

Global Networks

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In this article, I address the interplay between migration regimes and migrant subjectivities in stepwise multinational migration through a comparative analysis of biographical interviews with migrants in the healthcare and dairy farm work sectors in New Zealand. In both sectors, migrants' trajectories involve movements from Asia to locations in the Middle East, North Africa or Japan before arrival in New Zealand, and in some cases plans for onward migration. The analysis of these migration patterns and the narratives of migrants, reveal an emergent transnational skills regime that involves connected but uncoordinated systems of skills recognition; negotiating this regime occurs through increased attunement to migration on the part of multinational migrants, as well as adaptation to the expectations of authorities and employers. I conclude the article by suggesting that while multinational migration involves new opportunities for people on the move it also entails greater entanglement in the unequal conditioning of transnational migration.

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Affective Friendship that Constructs Globally Spanning Transnationalism: The Onward Migration of Filipino Workers from South Korea to Canada

Cited by 20 publications

References 32 publications

The importance of friends: social life challenges for foreign physicians in Southern Sweden

The importance of friends: social life challenges for foreign physicians in Southern Sweden

Settling down in time and place? Changing intimacies in mobile young people's migration and life courses

‘Give me my pathway!‘: multinational migration, transnational skills regimes and migrant subjectification

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