Becoming a young migrant or stayer seen through the lens of ‘householding’: Households ‘in flux’ and the intersection of relations of gender and seniority

Huijsmans, Roy

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2012.11.007

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“…Studies have also found that mobility, and in some cases irregular migration, plays a prominent role in the lives of young people residing in parts of Asia and Latin America respectively (Boyden, 2013;Huijsmans, 2014;Punch, 2015). Bylander (2014) has recently explored how a paucity of local opportunities for social mobility, alongside notions of hegemonic masculinity, has resulted in young Cambodian men feeling pressured to migrate in order to better their life chances.…”

Section: Development Youth Entrepreneurship and Football Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Faced with the double-edged sword of socio-economic insecurity and the restructuring of labour markets, the resourcefulness of young people does not simply reside in their ability to endure hardship. It is also evident in the spatially and temporally specific ways in which they engage with challenging economic conditions and assume responsibility for social reproduction (Berckmoes and White, 2014;Huijsmans, 2014;Punch, 2015). and Jeffrey and Dyson (2013) highlight how one of the strategies employed by young people in the Global South to combat difficult economic circumstances is to become an entrepreneur, i.e.…”

Section: Development Youth Entrepreneurship and Football Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Escape to victory: Development, youth entrepreneurship and the migration of Ghanaian footballers

Esson

2015

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a b s t r a c tThis article contributes to contemporary debates over the resourcefulness and entrepreneurialism of young people in the Global South by exploring the relationship between development and the migration of male youth within the football industry. Drawing on fieldwork in Accra, the paper reveals how young Ghanaians attempt to enact development as freedom through spatial mobility. Significantly, this is coupled with an awareness that their desired spatial mobility is difficult to attain, thereby inducing a sense of involuntary immobility. For some male youth, the solution to this predicament is to invest in their sporting bodily capital and become Foucauldian 'entrepreneurs of self' in the form of a professional footballer. Meanwhile for others, the solution to prevailing economic pressures is to embrace financial risk by becoming entrepreneurs in the form of football club owners, and attempting to profit from the movement of players. The interests of these two sets of entrepreneurs coalesce around the fact that the mobility of footballers is crucial to generating a return on their respective investments. It is argued that the construction of young Ghanaians as responsible for their future life chances, and the growing dissonance between aspirations and the ability to migrate, is a key reason why youth are trying to migrate through football. Problematically, this can foster conditions favourable for irregular migration.

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Section: Development Youth Entrepreneurship and Football Migrationmentioning

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Escape to victory: Development, youth entrepreneurship and the migration of Ghanaian footballers

Esson

2015

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“…As I have argued in my work on migration decision making at the level of the household in a sending area in rural Laos (Huijsmans, 2014a), relations of relative seniority between young people within the household help explain why some young people become involved in migration while others stay. The conceptual purchase of the notion of relative age is of course greater in contexts of above-replacement level fertility and complex household structures than it would be in the one-or-two child households that are rapidly becoming the norm in much of Thailand and Vietnam.…”

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“…social interventions) there may still be room for alternative understandings of age to meaningfully contribute to practice (Clark-Kazak, 2016). (Huijsmans, 2014a) In relation to direct interactions in everyday social life…”

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Exploring the “Age Question” in Research on Young Migrants in Southeast Asia

Huijsmans¹

2017

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“…First, such campaigns typically reproduce dominant conceptualisations of time and space by portraying 'certain phases of life (time, such as marriageable age) and certain places (space, such as school of family) as normal', without marking their deep heteronormativity (Jauhola, 2011, no page numbers indicated). Second, age is always accomplished within other evolving social units, most notably the household (Huijsmans, 2012(Huijsmans, , 2013. Third, these micro-rhythms of human and household development interact with trajectories of socioeconomic development.…”

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Theorising Age and Generation in Development: A Relational Approach

Huijsmans

George²,

Gigengack

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Eur J Dev Res

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This introduction outlines the analytical approach informing the articles presented in this special issue. The project of 'generationing' development involves re-thinking development as distinctly generational in its dynamics. For this, we adopt a relational approach to the study of young people in development, which overcomes the limitations inherent to common categorising approaches. Concepts of age and generation are employed to conceptualise young people as social actors and life phases such as childhood and youth in relational terms. Acknowledging the centrality of young people in social reproduction puts them at the heart of development studies and leads the articles comprising this special issue to explore how young people's agency shapes and is shaped by the changing terms of social reproduction brought about by development.Cette introduction trace les grandes lignes de l'approche analytique sur laquelle s'appuient les articles présentés dans ce numéro spécial. Le projet de développement « générationnant » implique de repenser le développement comme une dynamique clairement générationnelle. Pour cela, nous appliquons une approche relationnelle à l'analyse des jeunes dans le développement, qui permet de surmonter les limites inhérentes aux approches classificatrices communes. Les concepts d'âge et de génération sont mobilisés pour envisager les jeunes comme des acteurs sociaux, et les phases de vie telles que l'enfance et la jeunesse dans une perspective relationnelle. La prise en compte du rôle central des jeunes dans la reproduction sociale les met au coeur des études de développement et conduit les articles présentés dans ce numéro spécial à examiner en quoi la capacité d'action (agency) des jeunes influence et est influencée par les transformations des conditions de reproduction sociale découlant du développement.

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Becoming a young migrant or stayer seen through the lens of ‘householding’: Households ‘in flux’ and the intersection of relations of gender and seniority

Cited by 67 publications

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Escape to victory: Development, youth entrepreneurship and the migration of Ghanaian footballers

Escape to victory: Development, youth entrepreneurship and the migration of Ghanaian footballers

Exploring the “Age Question” in Research on Young Migrants in Southeast Asia

Theorising Age and Generation in Development: A Relational Approach

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