The morality of transnationalism: children of Ukrainian labor migrants write about migration, homeland and abroad

Tymczuk, Alexander

doi:10.1080/14733285.2013.812310

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“…Thus, Ukrainian labour migrants meet the three interrelated phenomena of the "other" in the spread of disease, as outlined by Joffé; they are closely connected to foreign nations, they conceptually constitute an out-group within society, and they engage in practices such as child care at a distance, which are constructed as alien within the prevailing norms of their culture. 67 In this sense, outward labour migration and return migration is a transgression of boundaries and borders, both literally, culturally and symbolically, and conceptually related to the circulation of social and moral risk and dangers. 68 Thus, Ukrainian labour migrants are part of the national "we," but their presence in the dangerous outside excludes them from the "imagined immunity."…”

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Bringing the Virus Back Home: Media Representations of Ukrainian Labour Migrants in a Time of Pandemic

Tymczuk¹

2021

East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures

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In a globalized world where mobility and movement is at its essence, the movement of viruses paradoxically causes a preoccupation with boundaries, containment, and control over borders, and thus keeping the “dangerous” outside separated from the “safe” inside. Through a qualitative thematic and frame analysis of news articles published on 12 Ukrainian news sites, I found that Ukrainian labour migrants conceptually constitute a challenge to such a clear-cut spatial organization in a time of a pandemic. Labour migrants are part of the national “we,” but their presence in the dangerous outside excludes them from the “imagined immunity.” This ambiguity is evident in the way labour migrants were portrayed during the first months of the outbreak in Ukraine. Initially, Ukrainian labour migrants were depicted as a potential danger, and then blamed for bringing the virus back home. However, the framing of the labour migrants as a danger is only part of the story, and the image of a scapegoat was eventually replaced with images of an economic resource and a victim. Thus, Ukrainian labour migrants have been the object of vilification, heroization, as well as empathy during the various phases of the outbreak. I would argue that these shifting frames are connected to the ambiguous conceptualization of Ukrainian labour migrants in general.

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Bringing the Virus Back Home: Media Representations of Ukrainian Labour Migrants in a Time of Pandemic

Tymczuk¹

2021

East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures

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“…Finally, this practice guaranteed a geographical distribution of respondents that would not otherwise have been possible. The writing events have been used before as a method of data gathering (Tymczuk, 2013).…”

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“It Was Not Me That Was Sick, It Was the Building”: Rhetorical Identity Management Strategies in the Context of Observed or Suspected Indoor Air Problems in Workplaces

2018

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Suffering from a contested illness poses a serious threat to one's identity. We analyzed the rhetorical identity management strategies respondents used when depicting their health problems and lives in the context of observed or suspected indoor air (IA) problems in the workplace. The data consisted of essays collected by the Finnish Literature Society. We used discourse-oriented methods to interpret a variety of language uses in the construction of identity strategies. Six strategies were identified: respondents described themselves as normal and good citizens with strong characters, and as IA sufferers who received acknowledge from others, offered positive meanings to their in-group, and demanded recognition. These identity strategies located on two continua: (a) individual- and collective-level strategies and (b) dissolved and emphasized (sub)category boundaries. The practical conclusion is that professionals should be aware of these complex coping strategies when aiming to interact effectively with people suffering from contested illnesses.

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“…Migrant children's multiple belongings are often a constitutive element of their identifications (Waite and Cook 2011, Evans this issue), and community memory work about parental homelands, including visits (Gardner and Mand, 2012;Wessendorf, 2007), may shape young people's sense of self. This includes elements of shame, guilt or pride about 'being away' (Tymczuk, 2013).…”

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

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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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The morality of transnationalism: children of Ukrainian labor migrants write about migration, homeland and abroad

Cited by 9 publications

References 30 publications

Bringing the Virus Back Home: Media Representations of Ukrainian Labour Migrants in a Time of Pandemic

Bringing the Virus Back Home: Media Representations of Ukrainian Labour Migrants in a Time of Pandemic

“It Was Not Me That Was Sick, It Was the Building”: Rhetorical Identity Management Strategies in the Context of Observed or Suspected Indoor Air Problems in Workplaces

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

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