Mobility Narratives and Shifting Identities

Roberts, Rosie

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“…In terms of everyday mobility practices, narratives relate to shifting experiences and identities, and are central to individuals' capacity to symbolise experience to themselves and others ( Roberts and Roberts, 2019 ). Due to the everydayness of narratives, at first thought, the concept of narrative might be taken lightly.…”

Section: How a Narrative Can Help Towards Transformational Changementioning

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Identifying, nurturing and empowering alternative mobility narratives

Brömmelstroet

Mladenović

Николаева

et al. 2022

Journal of Urban Mobility

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Section: How a Narrative Can Help Towards Transformational Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Identifying, nurturing and empowering alternative mobility narratives

Brömmelstroet

Mladenović

Николаева

et al. 2022

Journal of Urban Mobility

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“…This is not to say that serial migrants lack self-knowledge or are unclear about what they want and how they intend to pursue these goals. On the contrary, serial migration ‘forces people to become highly articulate about ideas associated with identity, attachment and self in relation to others and place’ (Roberts, 2019: 189). Much like a field of sunflowers, serial migrants are able to distinguish where the warmth of the sun lies and to gradually orientate themselves towards it in order to flourish.…”

Section: The Third Place: Transnationalism Cosmopolitanism and Serimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We note the importance of paying attention to a transnational middling class that is increasingly mobile, and locating these serial migrants in the matrixes of gender and race. As Roberts (2019: 190) writes: much of the literature on the skilled migrant experience does not account for the differentiated ways through which skilled migrants are included and excluded in new locations due to their gender, race, age, nationality or ethnicity. These discussions have generally been reserved for the study of unskilled migrants.…”

Section: The Serial Migration Of a Newly Mobile Middling Classmentioning

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Serial migration, multiple belongings and orientations toward the future: The perspective of middle-class migrants in Singapore

Wee

Yeoh

2020

Journal of Sociology

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The growing phenomenon of serial migrants – people who have moved at least three times and profess belongings to more than two places – challenges the dialogic relationship imagined in studies of transnationalism. This is particularly true in the case of the mobile middle class, which has attracted less attention than the multiple migrations of low-waged labour migrants and the global professional elite. Drawing on interviews with 35 Australian and Indonesian migrants in Singapore, this article proposes the idea of orientation in order to understand the serial migration biographies of middle-class migrants. Rather than focusing on the propulsion and direction of movement, the notion of orientation suspends a migrant between reflection, action and imagination as they forge provisional pathways that upend or cleave to more conventional social trajectories. Developing this concept helps us to understand how migrants with middling resources navigate post-national socio-political formations contoured by race, gender, and class.

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Serial migrant mothers and permanent temporariness in Dubai

Al-Dabbagh

2022

Migration Studies

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Based on a five-year urban ethnography, this article explores the subjectivities of permanent temporariness that characterize the experience of serial migrant mothers in Dubai. By going beyond approaches that select middle class participants based on fixed category classifications such as ethnicity or citizenship, this article uses a processual lens and sheds light on a sociologically unmarked category of migrants in the city whose experiences of mothering and work have been shaped by shifting intersectionality in the context of multinational migration. Through detailed biographies of four serial migrants, this article offers an illustration of the subjectivities of permanent temporariness and shows how they are reproduced through three mothering practices: propagating roots, reflexive selving, and normalizing movement. Examining serial migrant motherhood practices challenges methodological nationalism and illustrates how the flow and friction of multinational migration gets reconstituted into family and work lives.

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Mobility Narratives and Shifting Identities

Cited by 3 publications

References 26 publications

Identifying, nurturing and empowering alternative mobility narratives

Identifying, nurturing and empowering alternative mobility narratives

Serial migration, multiple belongings and orientations toward the future: The perspective of middle-class migrants in Singapore

Serial migrant mothers and permanent temporariness in Dubai

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