Leaving Family to Return to Family: Roots Migration Among Second‐Generation Italian‐Australians

Sala, Emanuela; Baldassar, Loretta

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Section: Life and Migration Courses: Challenges To Linearity Chronmentioning

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“…These enduring intimate ties to people and place belie the stereotype that mobile young people are free of family and community care obligations. A strong motivation in some studies of young people's mobility is freedom, particularly for identity, sexuality and even simply the freedom to become an adult, which many report being unable to do without transnational mobility, because of a lack of financial and/or cultural support to move out of the family home locally (Sala & Baldassar, 2019). And yet, young people are embedded in networks of support and family obligations with attendant care duties and responsibilities and their mobility trajectories are often tied to these obligations, sometimes facilitating their mobility by virtue of freeing them from obligations, other times restricting their mobility and sometimes triggering mobility in order to fulfil obligations to care (Baldassar, 2011).…”

Section: The Right Time: Temporalities Of Intimate Lives Settlement mentioning

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“…Youth are also driving the rapid expansion in international tourism, working holidays and the take‐up of other temporary work visas (Robertson, 2014). Larger numbers than ever before are also travelling abroad for self‐enhancement, cultural exchange and maintenance of familial and social networks (Baldassar & Pyke, 2014; Sala & Baldassar, 2019).…”

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

Harris

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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Section: Life and Migration Courses: Challenges To Linearity Chronmentioning

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

Harris

Baldassar

Robertson

2020

Population Space and Place

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“…For others, however, mobility may offer the only opportunity to escape family control and to embrace a more ‘modern’ lifestyle (Rutten and Verstappen, 2014), in particular for ‘middling’ youth from the Global South (e.g. Luthra and Platt, 2016; Rutten and Verstappen, 2014), although, even this kind of escape is profoundly constrained by ideals of family culture (Sala and Baldassar, 2019). In this context, youth mobility is very much a ‘family business’ with relevant studies also focussing on the reactions, desires and expectations of parents when faced with children moving abroad (e.g.…”

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Italian youth mobility: The case for a Mediterranean model of ‘family-centred’ mobile transitions

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This article seeks to advance our understanding of contemporary transnational youth mobility, drawing on the concept ‘mobile transitions’ to explore scholarly approaches to the mobility practices of young Italians moving abroad. We present a critical literature review of the intersections of migration, youth and transition studies to argue that the literature on youth transnational mobility currently features two contrasting models comprising a ‘transitions-focused’ Global South model and an ‘experiential-focused’ Global North model. This bifurcation fails to account for emergent regional models of mobility that may help to sharpen scholarly understandings of a new generation of youth ‘on the move’. We propose an alternative model positioned somewhere along the spectrum between the Global North and Global South models, which we define as the Mediterranean model of ‘family-centred’ transnational youth mobility. This model reflects aspects of both privileged, experiential youth migrations, which tend to undervalue the impact on transitions to adulthood, and economically driven youth migrations, which tend to focus more directly on the economic dimensions of youth to adulthood transitions. The Mediterranean model highlights more broadly how mobility enables and shapes transitions, which are simultaneously driven by both economic imperatives and individual experiential desires, and mediated through family and culture.

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“…Such research examines the representation of these places and the imagined experiences of moving to, living in, and studying or working in them. Whether studying outmigration or inmigration, youth mobility studies are concerned with questions about the roles of family (e.g., Baldassar & Sala, 2017;Holdsworth, 2013), community, and place (e.g., Prince, 2014) in shaping the varied motives for and expectations of moving for educational and employment purposes.…”

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Introduction to Special Issue: Youth Transitions to Education and Employment: A Mobilities Perspective

Smith

Power

2021

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This special issue focuses on the geographical and spatialized mobilities related to youth transitions to post-secondary education and employment. The “mobility turn” in social sciences in the last decade recognizes that life is increasingly organized and shaped by mobilities (and immobilities) across varying spatial and temporal scales. Yet these mobilities have only recently been examined and theorized as central to understanding the complexity and diversity of young people’s experiences. The collection of articles in this special issue presents a multiplicity of young people’s relationships to mobilities, particularly as they pursue post-secondary education and employment. The papers are concerned with: (a) the motivations for and expectations of imagined mobility (the innumerable reasons why youth choose, or are compelled, to move or stay), whether focused on the outmigration or inmigration of mobile youth; (b) the lived experiences that youth have in their mobility practices (focusing on multistranded relationships between places of origin and destination, or recognizing the temporality of that mobility); and (c) the value that these youth mobility studies have for policy issues and policy recommendations. The papers in this issue are case studies concerned with youth mobility prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. They use qualitative and quantitative methods, representing inter- and cross-disciplinary approaches from anthropology, sociology, education, communication, and rural development studies. They derive from a collaboration through the On the Move Partnership, an 8-year interdisciplinary research initiative with a key focus on young people’s employment- and education-related geographical mobilities in Canada.

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Leaving Family to Return to Family: Roots Migration Among Second‐Generation Italian‐Australians

Cited by 18 publications

References 40 publications

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

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

Italian youth mobility: The case for a Mediterranean model of ‘family-centred’ mobile transitions

Introduction to Special Issue: Youth Transitions to Education and Employment: A Mobilities Perspective

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