Never “at-Home”?: Migrants between Societies

Märtsin, Mariann; Mahmoud, Hala W.

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“…On the other hand, moving beyond classical approaches to migration in psychology (e.g. Berry, 2001), sociocultural psychology has also more recently tried to define new approaches to mobility, both taking into account current social science research, and the person's experience (Fleer & Hammer, 2013;Greco Morasso & Zittoun, 2014;Kadianaki, 2009;M€ artsin, 2010;M€ artsin & Mahmoud, 2012;Zittoun, Levitan, & Cangia´, 2018). These studies have thus proposed to take seriously people's need to make sense of their experience, and shown that 'experiencing' and making sense of a place do not simply follow being located, geographically and physically, in that place.…”

Section: Theoretical Positioningmentioning

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Imagination in people and societies on the move: A sociocultural psychology perspective

Zittoun

2020

Culture & Psychology

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This paper proposes a sociocultural psychology approach to mobility. It distinguishes geographical mobility, drawing on mobility studies, from symbolic mobility, that can be achieved through imagination. After the presentation of a theoretical framework, it examines the possible interplay between geographical and symbolic mobility through three case studies: that of people moving to a retirement home, that of a young woman’s trajectory through the Second World War in the UK, and that of families in repeated geographical mobility. The paper thus shows that imagination may expand or guide geographic mobility, but also, in some case, create some stability when geographic mobility becomes excessive. More importantly, it shows that over time, people engage in trajectories of imagination: their various geographical and symbolic mobilities can eventually transform their very mode of imagining.

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Section: Theoretical Positioningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Imagination in people and societies on the move: A sociocultural psychology perspective

Zittoun

2020

Culture & Psychology

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“…Sociocultural approaches have however expanded the enquiry on migration and mobility in interesting directions, by taking into account sociocultural, relational, and psychological dynamics (de Abreu & Hale, 2011;Gillespie, Kadianaki, & O'Sullivan-Lago, 2012;Hale & de Abreu, 2010;Kadianaki, 2014a;Märtsin, 2010;Märtsin & Mahmoud, 2012). However, repeated mobility only starts to be addressed by such approaches, which try to account both for sociocultural dynamics and the more subjective experience of mobile families (Adams & Fleer, 2016;Schliewe, 2017).…”

Section: Repeated Geographical Mobilitymentioning

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A sociocultural approach to mobile families: A case study.

Zittoun

Levitan

Cangià

2018

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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This paper proposes a sociocultural perspective of mobility, of which migration is only one case, with a focus on mobile families. Consistent with mobility studies, sociocultural psychology of the lifecourse proposes to study both the sociocultural conditions of mobility, and the perspective of mobile people. In addition, in this article, we consider interrelated lives in mobility. We discuss the specific case of one family documented as part of a larger research project on repeated geographical mobility, and highlight the specificities of the context, the experiences of each family member, and some of their overlapping spheres of experiences. We thus hope to document the life of such families, but also to provide theoretical directions for the psychological study of mobility. Public Significance Statement This study examines the interrelated lives in families who move frequently internationally for professional reasons. It invites to pay a closer attention to the various members' distinct experiences of repeated mobility, and especially children's specific experiences. It also highlights the role of joint, transportable activities that may support a feeling of continuity and "home" for family members "on the move".

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“…Connection with the home-country can contribute to altering the way migrants make sense of themselves and home communities. In particular, the feeling of not being understood from those who stayed behind, as well as the expectation to find people back home unchanged (Märtsin & Mahmoud, 2012;Schuetz, 1945;Van Leeuwen, 2008), make Nathalie prefer to "associate with" those who seem to share her experience of migration.…”

Section: The Boundary Work Outside: Mobility As Symbolic Marker Betwementioning

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Section: The Boundary Work Within: Mobility As a Personal And Family mentioning

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“…Mobility entails also a transformative and developmental experience (Märtsin & Mahmoud, 2012). When moving, the individual changes and develops as a person by becoming (an)other (Märtsin & Mahmoud, 2012), by re-establishing a sense of "sameness" and identity (Mahmoud, 2008;Märtsin, 2010), or by transforming personal trajectories, plans, beliefs, relations and knowledge along with external changes. We suggest that boundary work occurs in these transformative movements and developmental trajectories, between past, present and future selves and significant others as they develop through time, and can relate to more situated gender identities, cultural values (like in Hela's case) or national categories (Nathalie and Luke).…”

Section: The Boundary Work Within: Mobility As a Personal And Family mentioning

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Family, Boundaries and Transformation. The International Mobility of Professionals and Their Families

2018

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Two dominant images of migrant professionals, also known as “expats”, have long been common, in the social sciences: on the one hand, they were described as super-mobile individuals, who easily move between places with no time frame in mind, with the openness to engage with diversity; on the other hand, more recent studies challenged the idea of “expat” cosmopolitanism, and investigated the boundaries constituted by these people in the course of their everyday life. The present paper brings to the fore the complexity of these individuals’ and their families’ experiences of international mobility from a combined socio-cultural psychological and sociological perspective. We draw on qualitative research conducted in Switzerland in order to reflect on the role of family in the way these people make sense of diversity across time and space, make and un-make symbolic boundaries between themselves and others, and understand their own and their familiars' transformation.

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Never “at-Home”?: Migrants between Societies

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Imagination in people and societies on the move: A sociocultural psychology perspective

Imagination in people and societies on the move: A sociocultural psychology perspective

A sociocultural approach to mobile families: A case study.

Family, Boundaries and Transformation. The International Mobility of Professionals and Their Families

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