Responsible adults-in-the-making: Intergenerational impact of parental migration on Indonesian young women’s aspirational capacity

Yen, Khoo Choon; Yeoh, Brenda S. A.

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.08.005

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

Robertson

Cheng

Yeoh

2018

Journal of Intercultural Studies

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“…The low and uncertain wages in the agricultural sector are also caused by unsustainable prices of agricultural commodities [45,46]. When commodity prices are low, they directly harm workers in the agricultural sector.…”

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Challenge of Agriculture Development in Indonesia: Rural Youth Mobility and Aging Workers in Agriculture Sector

Ngadi

Zaelany²,

Latifa³

et al. 2023

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The agricultural sector in Indonesia plays a strategic role in both economic development and employment. However, this sector has problems, especially concerning its declining workforce and aging workers. This is largely associated with the low attractiveness of the agricultural sector in absorbing labor. The younger age group prefers to seek non-agricultural employment by migrating to urban areas. This paper aims to analyze the youth mobility, job choice and the implications for agricultural workers. The data for analysis are data from the Indonesian National Labor Force Survey, 2019, by the Central Bureau of Statistics. The result of the descriptive and inferential analysis shows that the probability of youth migrating is higher than for older age groups. On the other hand, the probability of youth finding work in manufacturing and services is greater than in the agriculture sector. This carries implications for an increase in the workforce aged 60 and over, which has escalated from 7.6% in 1971 to 21.2% in 2020. Therefore, it is necessary to develop the agricultural sector so that it is attractive to the younger generation in Indonesia, especially to increase productivity and the use of digital technology for agriculture.

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“…The literature on futures/futurity has given considerable attention to human subjects such as children, youths, young families, and irregular and labour migrants (e.g. Boccagni, 2017; Crivello, 2015; Khoo & Yeoh, 2017; Naafs & Skelton, 2018; Pimlott-Wilson, 2017; Robertson et al, 2018). Across these studies, futures are associated with risks, uncertainty and anxiety but also hopeful imaginations of what could be possible and different degrees of individuals’ agency (Bunnell et al, 2017).…”

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(Re)constructing Ageing Futures: Insights from Migration in Asia and Beyond

Thang

Huang

et al. 2022

American Behavioral Scientist

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This special issue examines how older adults anticipate and manage their futures through migration. Although ageing is often associated with decline towards the end-of-life, it is still a life stage where (the lack of) planning for the future can profoundly impact the life outcomes of older adults and their caregivers. This collection illustrates different ways migration can impact ageing. For some, perceptions and depictions of the future lead older adults to turn to migration to improve their prospects of ageing well although they continue to face constraints while ageing abroad. For others, the migration of younger family members exacerbates the stress of eldercare felt by non-migrant caregivers. Collectively, the papers focus on how countries in Asia function as source and destination sites for ageing-related migration, while also forging transnational connections with the Global North. Focusing on ageing futures allows us to link the current and future lives of migrants and non-migrants, across generations and space.

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Responsible adults-in-the-making: Intergenerational impact of parental migration on Indonesian young women’s aspirational capacity

Cited by 12 publications

References 20 publications

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

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

Challenge of Agriculture Development in Indonesia: Rural Youth Mobility and Aging Workers in Agriculture Sector

(Re)constructing Ageing Futures: Insights from Migration in Asia and Beyond

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