Friendship, networks and transnationality in a world city: Antipodean transmigrants in London

Conradson, David; Latham, Alan

doi:10.1080/1369183042000339936

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“…The attraction of the US to British students may also be partially explained by its perceived 'safeness' and similarity, in some respects, to 'home'. In exploring the mobility of young New Zealanders to the UK, Conradson and Latham (2005) have made similar arguments, suggesting that London 'mediates many of the uncertainties associated with the act of migrating' (p.293) and one of its key attractions as a potential destination is that 'it doesn't demand that things get too experimental' (ibid.). Our respondents' narratives suggest that similar assessments may have underpinned their desire to move to the US (but also other Anglophone destinations such as Canada and Australia).…”

Section: The Spatial Distribution Of Student Destinationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Second Chance at ‘Success’

2009

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While the literature on highly skilled international migration has grown substantially over recent years, the motivations and experiences of an important sub-group — the internationally mobile student — have remained under-researched. In an attempt to redress this gap, this article draws on in-depth interviews with 85 young adults, to explore the choices and motivations of UK students who choose to study abroad for the whole of an undergraduate or postgraduate degree. While studies of east to west migration have typically emphasised the importance of an international higher education as a high-prestige, first choice option for those students who can afford it, we argue that, for UK students, choices are configured differently. For many of our respondents, overseas education offered primarily a ‘second chance’ at accessing elite education.

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Section: The Spatial Distribution Of Student Destinationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2009

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“…Here, there are clear parallels with Conradson and Latham's (2005) research on the migration of young New Zealanders to London. They maintain that the friendship networks of their respondents were instrumental in bringing them to London, and then in helping to shape the kind of lives they led while residing in the UK.…”

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“…Moreover, Conradson and Latham (2005) maintain that for many people, not only the young, a period living abroad is becoming an increasingly normal and almost taken-for-granted part of the lifecycle, closely linked to a culture of self-development and self-exploration and predicated on the more general process of societal individualisation. Certainly, within our sample, there appeared to be a widespread valorisation of travel amongst the peer groups in which our respondents were located: moving abroad for higher education thus tended to be viewed very positively.…”

Section: Friendship Networkmentioning

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Social networks and educational mobility: the experiences of UK students

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2010

Globalisation, Societies and Education

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A recurrent theme in the literature on transnational mobility -and particularly that pertaining to the young and/or highly skilled -is the individualised nature of such movement, as people move to take advantage of opportunities in an increasingly interdependent world. Drawing on research with 85 young adults who had moved overseas for their higher education, or were seriously contemplating doing so, this paper subjects this claim to critical scrutiny. Indeed, it suggests that while internationally mobile students are clearly only a subset of the broader category of transnational migrants, they nevertheless demonstrate important ways in which mobility is often socially-embedded, grounded within networks of both family and friends. It then points to the socially reproductive nature of such ties, and discusses their implications for the development of 'mobility capital'.

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“…Conradson & Latham (2005a) contend that such ' transnationalism of the middle' is relatively under-researched compared to say highly-skilled and unskilled migrants, especially the banalities of migrants' every day lives. This deficit has, to some extent, been addressed in recent years (Wilson et al, 2009;Wiles 2008;Conradson & Latham, 2005b;Gamlen, 2005), but there are still gaps in our understanding of the social encounters of 'migrants of the middle'. This is particularly apposite where 'categories of movement dissolve into one another, and where circulation rather than permanence has become the dominant paradigm of global migration' (Allon et al, 2008, p.79) as in NZ-UK migration.…”

Section: Transnationalism 'Of the Middle' And Mobile Network In The mentioning

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The Circular International Migration of New Zealanders: Enfolded Mobilities and Relational Places

2011

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Migrants' social relations are reconfigured in terms of how the localised and distanciated are recombined in context of how individuals are embedded in the enfolded mobilities of increasingly mobile social networks. The paper is organized around three main propositions. First, that social relations are structured across three main and intersecting domains -family, workplace and community. Second, that social relations and networks are shaped by, and shape, the relational nature of places. Third, that the relational nature of places, and the reconfiguration of localised and distanciated relationships should be analysed across the entire migration cycle. These ideas are explored through a study of the Big OE from New Zealand to the UK, based on in-depth interviews with returned migrants.

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Friendship, networks and transnationality in a world city: Antipodean transmigrants in London

Cited by 245 publications

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A Second Chance at ‘Success’

A Second Chance at ‘Success’

Social networks and educational mobility: the experiences of UK students

The Circular International Migration of New Zealanders: Enfolded Mobilities and Relational Places

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