Becoming a migrant: aspirations of youths during their transition to adulthood in rural Mexico

Azaola, Marta Cristina

doi:10.1080/13676261.2012.677813

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“…The paper addresses the gap highlighted by Huijsmans et al (2014, 1) that while young people are often included in development targets, they are still underrepresented in the theories and practices of development. This is especially the case in research around young people's aspirations and/or social mobility in Latin America, albeit with some notable exceptions (Crivello 2011;Punch 2007;Azaola 2012;Gough and Franch 2005). This paper also responds to the call made by Hart (2016, 338) to work in a more interdisciplinary way to obtain a more comprehensive understanding of the social context of aspirations.…”

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‘We are labeled as gang members, even though we are not’: belonging, aspirations and social mobility in Cartagena

Marzi

2018

Development Studies Research

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This paper explores how belonging and aspirations interact to shape marginalized young Colombians' strategies for upward social mobility. Recent literature has argued that in the context of inequality and poverty, social mobility is constrained by people's inability to aspire to and/or achieve their aspirations. The majority of this literature is from the economics field and looks at the way poverty acts as a brake on social mobility. This paper provides an additional interdisciplinary analysis of the role of 'belonging' (to places and social class) in influencing aspirations of young Colombians. Findings are based on ethnographic fieldwork with young people from two marginalized neighborhoods in Cartagena. It is argued that aspirations are closely linked to belonging and the extent to which young people feel integral to or distanced from their localities. Using a Bourdieusian perspective, the paper examines how belonging is developed and how it influences behavior, orientations and future prospects. This approach generates insights into young people's apparent low aspirations beyond the explanation of internal behavioral poverty traps. In so doing, it provides a more comprehensive understanding of how societal structures limit aspiration development and achievement.ARTICLE HISTORY

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‘We are labeled as gang members, even though we are not’: belonging, aspirations and social mobility in Cartagena

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2018

Development Studies Research

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“…It is important to note that some international research, particularly in places that tend to serve global economic development rather than grow rich from it-for example from rural parts of Asia and Latin America (e.g. Azaola, 2012;Barney, 2012;Bhandari & Ghimire, 2016; Brown, Scrase & Granguly-Scrase, 2017)-foregrounds economic motivators and constraints, examining young people who are propelled away from their rural communities in search of jobs and remittance income as the economies of their home communities restructure and globalize.…”

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“…It also expresses the assumption that while certain factors may be, for all practical intents and purposes, beyond an individual young person's control, young people exercise a great deal of agency [see Glossary] in the migration process; whether they leave or stay, they actively "weigh multiple influences" (McLaughlin, Shoff & Demi, 2014:467) in their lives and "can cope with and even overcome certain obstacles" (Leyshon 2008 22) as they move toward leaving or staying in their home communities after secondary school or returning to them after post-secondary (Rérat, 2014). Moreover, mobility and migration become channels through which young people attempt to find or display their agency-their power to make choices (Azaola, 2012).…”

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“…The pervasive discourses of rural failure and urban success are attached to the "normalization" of migration, especially for work, in rural communities (Abbott-Chapman, Johnston & Jetson, 2014;Azaola, 2012;Easthope & Gabriel, 2008;Marshall & Foster, 2002:69;Peou, 2016;Stockdale, 2002:50). Indeed, in today's world, "being on the move represents the rule rather than the exception" (Rye, 2011:172).…”

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Finding a place in the world

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2018

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The economic crash in Iceland created a sense of social and political collapse that extended far beyond the economic realm. Calls for a “New Iceland” were invoked, where the Icelandic political arena would be “cleaned” and reimagined in drastic ways. In this article, I explore how ideas circulating in the wider European region about how Icelanders dealt exceptionally well with the crisis not only failed to reflect the lived effects of the collapse but also echoed long-standing nationalist ideals of Icelanders’ imagined reality of themselves. I show how nation branding in Iceland after 2010 added to the conception that Iceland dealt with the crisis in an exceptional way, and I critically ask why Iceland received such a positive depiction in the international media.

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“…For young migrants in the cities, there are concerns about employment conditions, health risks, and challenges to their well-being, and also the issue that their identities as young people are at a cross roads as they transition to adulthood (Azaola, 2012;Clark & Cotton, 2013;.…”

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Understanding the lived experiences and identities of young rural to urban migrant workers in Vietnam

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Internal migration is the migration from one location to another within a country. Migration from a rural to an urban area is typically part of the urbanisation process. It is considered a livelihood strategy and poverty reduction solution for many people in medium-and low-income countries such as China, Indonesia, and Vietnam to name a few. In Vietnam, rural to urban migration has increased steadily over the past few decades. Greater numbers of young people in particular have migrated out of villages to find jobs in towns and cities. There are growing concerns about the social life and working conditions of such young migrant workers, and how these experiences shape their emerging identities during early adulthood. However, there is little in-depth empirical understanding about the lived experiences of young internal migrants.This thesis contributes to our understanding of the lived social and work experiences of young Vietnamese people who migrate from the countryside to the city for work. These experiences are important in themselves as well as an important contextualisation of how young Vietnamese migrants form and reconstruct their identities in the new urban context. Given the purpose of the study is to provide an in-depth understanding of the experiences and identities of young migrants, this research employed a qualitative research approach using three data collection techniques namely, participant interviews, adapted photovoice and field observation. Photovoice is an innovative research method developed by Wang and Burries (1997), which involves the participants taking photos and then discussing them with the researcher. The study was conducted in the city of Hanoi, Vietnam, with twenty young migrant workers, aged 18 to 24 years, who had migrated to Hanoi for work one-to-four years earlier. Thematic analysis of the data was undertaken applying three concepts of habitus, field, and capital from Bourdieu's theory of practice to analyse the data to enable an understanding of the themes of work and living experiences, and the identities of the participants.The young people in this study left their villages for the city with a hope for better jobs, better incomes, and to build better lives and better futures; however, their lives also involved hardships and difficulties. Due to a lack of skills, qualifications, and work experience, most participants were employed in unskilled employment sectors that offered low pay and harsh conditions, and involved a lack of opportunity for career development and advancement. Social capital, in the form of social networks, was very important in connecting young people to their jobs, accommodation, and other opportunities in the city. In addition, their economic resources, together with social resources, played a prominent role in shaping the experiences and social and material i outcomes of their migration. Work constituted an important part of life for all participants, as it not only gave them money to cover their living expenses, but, more importantly, it enabled...

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Becoming a migrant: aspirations of youths during their transition to adulthood in rural Mexico

Cited by 28 publications

References 21 publications

‘We are labeled as gang members, even though we are not’: belonging, aspirations and social mobility in Cartagena

‘We are labeled as gang members, even though we are not’: belonging, aspirations and social mobility in Cartagena

Finding a place in the world

Understanding the lived experiences and identities of young rural to urban migrant workers in Vietnam

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