Migrant times beyond the life course: The temporalities of foreign English teachers in South Korea

Collins, Francis L.; Shubin, Sergei

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.04.002

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“…Life-stages and life-courses, which have received renewed interest amongst geographers and other social scientists researching migration (Bailey 2009;Collins and Shubin 2015), are part of a wider theoretical excursion into the role of time in migration (Cwerner 2001;Shubin 2015), which also resonates throughout our analysis. For Baltic migrants in the London region, several temporal dimensions, at various scales, are seen to operate.…”

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From peripheral region to escalator region in Europe: Young Baltic graduates in London

King¹,

Lulle

Parutis

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European Urban and Regional Studies

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This paper examines recent migration from three little-studied EU countries, the Baltic states, focusing on early-career graduates who move to London. It looks at how these young migrants explain the reasons for their move, their work and living experiences in London, and their plans for the future, based on 78 interviews with individual migrants. A key objective of this paper is to rejuvenate the core-periphery structural framework through the theoretical lens of London as an 'escalator' region for career development. We add a necessary nuance on how the time dimension is crucial in understanding how an escalator region functions -both in terms of macro-events such as EU enlargement or economic crisis, and for life-course events such as career advancement or family formation. Our findings indicate that these educated young adults from the EU's north-eastern periphery migrate for a combination of economic, career, lifestyle and personal-development reasons. They are ambivalent about their futures and when, and whether, they will return-migrate.

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From peripheral region to escalator region in Europe: Young Baltic graduates in London

King¹,

Lulle

Parutis

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European Urban and Regional Studies

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“…As far as population migration is concerned, geographers tend to use maps of different time periods to describe the temporal and spatial changes of the population [47,48]. Sociologists like to study population migration from a philosophical and humanistic perspective [23,49,50]. Economists are more familiar with statistics and econometric models [24].…”

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The Spatio-Temporal Characteristics and Modeling Research of Inter-Provincial Migration in China

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Abstract:The national census data during 1995 and 2000 and during 2005 and 2010 are selected in this paper to make an analysis of the spatio-temporal characteristics of the inter-provincial population migration in China. In addition, the general regression model, the extension regression model considering the historical dependent variable and the spatial lag model are established based on the gravity model to make the regression model on China's inter-provincial population migration over two periods of time. The results show that: (1) the inter-provincial population migration increases rapidly in size with strong geographical proximity; (2) China's inter-provincial population migration is still in the primary stage of the general process of population migration. In other words, the inter-provincial population emigration and immigration levels have increased greatly with the economic development; (3) Statistically, the inter-provincial population migration is negatively correlated with the level of economic development in the emigrant place and the migration distance and positively correlated with the level of economic development in the immigrant place and the population scale in the emigrant and immigrant places; and (4) The spatio-temporal factor is an important explanatory variable of population migration. The introduction of the historical dependent variable and the spatial lag factor can improve the regression effect of the gravity model greatly, and the historical variable and the spatial factor have strong explanatory power for the inter-provincial population migration.

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“…As mentioned in Section 2.1, some previous studies have explored migrants' choices and calculations of costs and benefits of migration, thus depicting migrants as rational decision-makers. My thesis adds nuance as captured by other phenomenological studies (e.g Collins & Shubin, 2015;Shubin, 2015) that critique the assumption of migrants' rationality as "internal to consciousness and subject to different mechanisms of ordering and manipulation" (Shubin, 2015, p. 350). Shubin (2015) observes that migrants' interactions with the world produce mixed emotions and feelings, as well as make their lives unfolding, instead of simply "flowing" (p. 351) from one place in a particular time to another.…”

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“…I also examine how these confluences opened up possibilities for them during the My thesis draws on a small number of earlier studies using a Heideggerian framework in exploring the relationality of spatiality and temporality in mobilities (e.g. Collins & Shubin, 2015;Shubin, 2015). As mentioned in Chapter 2, I challenge some common perspectives on space and time as separate "sequential and geometrically measurable forms" (Shubin, 2015, p. 350) that reduce migrants' experiences to separate events.…”

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Transnational mobilities of Australia-educated and domiciled professional migrants from Vietnam

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Within a global discourse of increasing human capital for competitive advantage, skilled migration following international education -known as two-step migration -has been used by governments as a human capacity building strategy. In government-commissioned reports and studies, the dominant use of economic frameworks describes two-step migrants as rational choice makers. Such approaches have the effect of disembodying transnational mobilities as homogeneous 'brain flows' across borders. In contrast, migrants have their own pursuits and experience circumstances affecting their subjectivities in transnational mobilities. By building on extant research on transnationalism, this thesis provides a more holistic picture of education-related and professional migration. It acknowledges the embodiment of transnational mobilities through the relational aspects of migrants' everyday lives, from forming decisions to migrate, to relocating to the host society and planning for the future. Therefore, understanding the relationality of transnational mobilities requires researchers to attend to skilled migrants' engagement with the world across multiple spaces and temporalities.In this study, I examine education-related migration from Vietnam to Australia, portrayed in policy discourse as a human capacity building strategy (Vietnam), and a dual national project of education Negotiation of transnational mobilities by the participants is explored in four major areas: decisions to migrate, relocation experiences, work and life aspirations, and uses of transnational ties. Drawing on Heidegger's phenomenology, I examine these four areas using the concept of being-in-the-world in terms of these migrants' interactions with others and things, the ways they followed and/or broke with public norms, as well as what mattered to them in their mobilities in relation to the surrounding world.ii This thesis contributes further understandings and elaborates distinctive features of two-step migration from Vietnam to Australia in place of earlier research which has analysed Asian migratory flows. The concept of being-in-the-world enables me to argue that two-step migrants from Vietnam in Australia negotiate transnational mobilities through their embeddedness in the socio-political, economic, educational and cultural structures in both countries in relation to their personal concerns and circumstances. Thus, I challenge the assumptions present in 'race for talent' policies that disembody professional migrants as homogeneous flows of human capital from one nation to another. Exploring migrants' entwinement with the world in intersecting domains enables me to add nuances to previous understandings of binaries in migration, including 'routes' and 'roots', agency and structure, and spatiality and temporality. I also extend my critique to approaches adopted in skilled migration research that examine separate influences from migrants' interactions with the world on their negotiations of mobilities.By re-conceptualising transnational mobilities as...

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Migrant times beyond the life course: The temporalities of foreign English teachers in South Korea

Cited by 73 publications

References 23 publications

From peripheral region to escalator region in Europe: Young Baltic graduates in London

From peripheral region to escalator region in Europe: Young Baltic graduates in London

The Spatio-Temporal Characteristics and Modeling Research of Inter-Provincial Migration in China

Transnational mobilities of Australia-educated and domiciled professional migrants from Vietnam

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