Introduction to a virtual issue on the geographies of migration

Yeoh, Brenda S. A.

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“…As a collection, the articles in this special section highlight the importance of careful reflection on methodological concerns in order to more fully respond to the extended temporality and heightened sense of complexity, fluidity, and precarity that characterize many multinational migrations. Beyond calling for greater attention to the methodological underpinnings of researching the complex geographies of migration (Yeoh, 2018), this collection serves to highlight two specific issues.…”

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Methodological innovations in studying multinational migrations

Paul

Yeoh

2020

Geographical Research

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A growing body of migration scholarship has highlighted the inadequacies of a single‐origin, single‐destination model for thinking about international migration in the 21st century. Multinational migrations—involving the varied movements of international migrants across more than one overseas destination with significant time spent in each overseas country—have been observed among high‐skilled migrants, low‐wage labour migrants, and documented and undocumented migrants. But given the extended temporality, multispatiality, and complexity of multinational migrations, the study of such onward movements can be fraught with difficulty. These methodological challenges must be added to the existing issues surrounding most international migration scholarship: methodological nationalism, essentialism, and skewed positionality. This special section highlights a range of research methods and approaches well suited to addressing these concerns. Collectively, the papers investigate various patterns of multinational migration across a range of migrant categories and spanning multiple world regions, addressing questions about the prevalence and drivers of these complex processes. They also offer a toolkit of methodological approaches—including mental mapping, trajectory analysis, attending to the family/household as the scale of analysis, multisited ethnographies, and longitudinal research—as suggested ways of studying multinational migrations.

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Methodological innovations in studying multinational migrations

Paul

Yeoh

2020

Geographical Research

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Migratory outcomes across localities and generations in Kupang, Indonesia

Akhmad,

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Dressler

2024

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This study explores the outcomes of internal migration in Indonesia, specifically focusing on the intersecting themes of ethnicity, informality, and entrepreneurial migration. We examine how Javanese migrants perceive the benefits and challenges of their migration and subsequent engagement in the informal sector as self‐employed migrants/small business owners in and around Kupang’s traditional markets. We use a sequential mixed‐methods approach (a household survey with a structured interview [n=344] and in‐depth/semi‐structured interviews [n=28] in 2020). Drawing on Hein de Haas’s framework on the internal dynamics of migration, we explore the multifaceted outcomes of entrepreneurial migration beyond the economic consequences addressed in similar studies. The perceived positive impacts of this migration include sufficient income to cover daily needs and children’s education, as well as new remittances and employment opportunities for communities in Java and Kupang. However, these broadly empowering trends were set against the experience of those migrants who, because of less informal sector labour experience, could not easily negotiate their settlement in a new host environment, leading to varied adverse consequences. Ultimately, then, the article highlights the importance of social networks, knowledge, and reciprocity in supporting the successful establishment of entrepreneurial migrants in emerging destinations.

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Introduction to a virtual issue on the geographies of migration

Cited by 2 publications

References 19 publications

Methodological innovations in studying multinational migrations

Methodological innovations in studying multinational migrations

Migratory outcomes across localities and generations in Kupang, Indonesia

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