Globalised dreams, local constraints: migration and youth aspirations in an Indian regional town

Brown, Trent Dickson; Scrase, Timothy J.; Ganguly-Scrase, Ruchira

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“…Importantly, as illustrated in Carling and Collins's work (2018), aspiration is used to highlight 'states of feeling and circulation of affect' (913) in migration processes and is integral to constructing the temporality of migration as future-oriented and ongoing. In youth-focused research, recent work in Asian contexts has predominantly explored aspiration in terms of young people and their families aspiring towards employment and education opportunities and outcomes (Koo 2012;Kölbel 2013;Brown et al 2017;Khoo and Yeoh 2017;Naafs and Skelton 2018). Conceptually, Zipin et al (2015) have crucially rethought aspiration for young people beyond discourses of human capital and economic competitiveness, showing how aspirations are grounded in multiple logics that emerge from populist-ideological mediations, biographic-historical legacies and emergent senses of future potential.…”

Section: Mobile Aspirations: Youth and Adulthood Across Cultures And mentioning

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“…First and foremost, while local demographic and economic pressures (such as rising education aspirations and population increases) impel young people to move for education and employment opportunities (Hettige 2005), they are also driven by the 'globalisation' of youth aspirations. Young people are influenced by circulations of global culture in terms of what they aspire to (Skrbis et al 2014), although such aspirations are classed and therefore 'out of reach' for some (Chun and Han 2015;Brown et al 2017;Naafs 2018). Secondly, questions of culture shape how the value of youth mobility is framed in different social contexts.…”

Section: Mobile Aspirations: Youth and Adulthood Across Cultures And mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Introduction: Mobile Aspirations? Youth Im/Mobilities in the Asia-Pacific

Robertson

Cheng

Yeoh

2018

Journal of Intercultural Studies

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Young people in the Asia-Pacific increasingly move around for work, education and leisure, and combinations thereof. Asians make up 41 per cent of international migrants worldwide (United Nations 2017) and the region represents diverse flows of both inbound and outbound, short-and long-term migrations. Settler nations with aging populations, like Australia and New Zealand, strategically seek to draw on the mobility aspirations of burgeoning youth populations elsewhere in the region as a migrant labour force but also as consumers of education and tourism experiences. Emerging economic powers like China and India seek to send vast cohorts of young people abroad to obtain skills, and simultaneously attract diaspora returnees and highly skilled foreigners back to work and invest. The increasing reach of multinational corporations across the region creates new opportunities for the circular mobilities of professionals, tracing new patterns of movement alongside traditional migration routes for manual labourers and domestic workers. Intra-regional mobility is increasingly important for youth. For example, while more than half of all tertiary international students globally are from Asia (UNESCO 2013), East Asia and the Pacific are an increasingly significant destination region, hosting 19 per cent of all international enrolments (UNESCO 2016). Further, new virtual mobilities, such as cross-border education programmes and digital outsourcing, position immobile young students and workersas well as those who prefer to 'stay' rather than 'move'into transnational and transregional networks and processes even as they remain in place. Despite the embedding of cultures of mobility into the lives of many mobile and immobile youth in the Asia-Pacific, contemporary youth mobilities research has been strongly focused on the European Union (EU) (see for example,

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Section: Mobile Aspirations: Youth and Adulthood Across Cultures And mentioning

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Section: Mobile Aspirations: Youth and Adulthood Across Cultures And mentioning

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Introduction: Mobile Aspirations? Youth Im/Mobilities in the Asia-Pacific

Robertson

Cheng

Yeoh

2018

Journal of Intercultural Studies

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“…At first sight, it appears that migration is a cultural signifier of upward social mobility, just like previous research highlighted that migration is used as a tool to improve the standard of living and quality of life (Brown et al 2017). Still, even after having migrated, the uneven distribution of the resources shapes the trajectories of young people reinforcing already existing social divisions.…”

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“…A World Bank (2016) report revealed that young people (aged 15-40) make up 40% of the total Nepali population and a few years earlier, in 2011, the Census Bureau of Statistics recorded Kathmandu as having the highest youth population nationwide-some 52.9% (KC 2003). Scholars have focused on young people's struggle for educational access and on mobility linked to improving their standard of living and quality of life (Brown et al 2017;Thomson and Taylor 2005;Timalsina 2011). This perspective assumes migration to be a shortterm strategy adopted to stay 'on track' in the conventional education-to-work transition route (Robertson et al 2018).…”

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“…The rise of educated youth unemployment delaying the passage to social adulthood (Jeffery and Young 2012) has rendered young people vulnerable to structural conditions that generate poverty and social inequality (Chen 2018;Juárez and Gayet 2014). Many people in South Asia perceive that a successful transition to adulthood requires migration for education and work within the country or abroad (Brown et al 2017). But, for these young rural migrants, the chances of successfully obtaining a job vary by class, gender, and other social divisions.…”

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The Education-to-Work Transition of Young Rural–Urban Migrants in Kathmandu, Nepal

Basnet

Timmerman

Linden

2020

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This article examines the experiences of youth transitioning from education to work, within the specific context of rural–urban migration in Nepal. This context is chosen as, compared to developed countries, experiences in developing ones have remained under-researched in the transition studies literature. The study is informed by a biographical research approach, using qualitative longitudinal life (hi)story methods, with a view to revealing local transition patterns and the life events influencing these. The study identifies four different patterns reflecting the education-to-work transitions of young rural–urban migrants in Nepal. These patterns encompass different pathways involving education, migration, work, and mandatory waiting periods. The analysis of these transition patterns highlights how migration for education and work from rural to urban settings, taken together with mandatory waiting periods, exerts key influence on the overall life trajectories of young rural–urban migrants in Nepal’s capital.

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Editorial: Transnational youth mobilities: Emotions, inequities, and temporalities

Judge

Blažek

2020

Population Space and Place

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This editorial outlines a research agenda for critical exploration of transnational youth mobilities centred on three concepts: emotions, inequity, and temporality. This agenda offers novel perspectives on the interplay between geographies of social difference and the multiscalar forces governing and being made through mobility.Emotions advance theorisations of agency by providing a generative lens to examine how aspirations, social relationships, and political subjectivities intersect to inform young people's lifeworlds and mobilities. Critical analyses of how youth navigate challenging structural conditions are shown to be sharpened by considering the mutually constitutive nature of inequity and (im)mobility. A temporal lens reveals how youth mobilities are driven, experienced, and shaped by structural and social dynamics including, but not limited to, precarity, border regimes, and intergenerationality. We conclude by charting how further explorations into the diverse emotions and temporalities of youth mobility, centred on questions of inequity, can significantly advance scholarly debates within and beyond population geography.

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Globalised dreams, local constraints: migration and youth aspirations in an Indian regional town

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Introduction: Mobile Aspirations? Youth Im/Mobilities in the Asia-Pacific

Introduction: Mobile Aspirations? Youth Im/Mobilities in the Asia-Pacific

The Education-to-Work Transition of Young Rural–Urban Migrants in Kathmandu, Nepal

Editorial: Transnational youth mobilities: Emotions, inequities, and temporalities

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