Mobile transitions: a conceptual framework for researching a generation on the move

Robertson, Shanthi; Harris, Anita; Baldassar, Loretta

doi:10.1080/13676261.2017.1362101

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“…Current national policy frameworks throughout the region tend to encourage youth to be mobile. This reflects the widely-accepted view of 'aspirational' transnational mobilitythat international experiences will provide young people with enhanced life chances and competitive job skills, as well as benefit national and local communities more broadly through remittances, skills transfer, cultural diplomacy networks and an increasingly cosmopolitan and agile workforce (Robertson et al 2018).…”

Section: Mobile Aspirations: Youth and Adulthood Across Cultures And supporting

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“…The contributions in this Special Issue not only bridge the fields of migration studies and youth studies but fill crucial lacunae in the spaces where they intersect. Youth studies has often focused on young people as emplaced, rather than mobile subjects and has tended towards Northcentric and methodologically nationalist approaches (Nilan 2011;Robertson et al 2018). In turn, migration studies, with a few exceptions (e.g.…”

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“…This issue seeks to open a dialogue between these fields, drawing on a mobilities paradigm to set a renewed research agenda around youth and im/mobilities in the Asia-Pacific and beyond. The papers collectively contribute new empirical and conceptual insights to an emerging interdisciplinary space of 'youth mobility studies' (Raffaetà, Baldassar and Harris 2016;van Geel and Mazzucatto 2018;Robertson, Harris and Baldassar 2018), with an empirical focus on the increasingly complex and variegated im/mobilities occurring within the Asia-Pacific region.…”

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

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

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Cheng

Yeoh

2018

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“…That is to say that their residence in the host country is typically temporary (King et al 2010), where many intend to return (Lu et al 2009) or to utilise their educational sojourns as a spring-board for further migrations (Wu and Wilkes 2017). Rather than permanent residency in the receiving country, they are more likely to be seeking social capital translatable to improved employability (Robertson et al 2018) or less tangible commodities, which shall be discussed later. This may mean that the effort required to form cross-cultural bonds may be seen as less worth the effort than would be the case for migrants intending to stay long-term (Page 2016).…”

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Emerging empowerment of international students: how international student literature has shifted to include the students’ voices

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Chahboun

2019

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Social isolation has been a central focus within international student research, especially with regard to international/host national relations. While a worthy area of study, we argue that the sheer volume of such research stems from the fact that universities' recruitment of foreign students is often justified by the claim that a more international campus will engender crosscultural skills. The main argument of this paper is that, from this perspective, the Bpoint^of such sojourns is seen as social, and any lack of interaction becomes problematic. This is an intellectually respectable position, but it is problematic that it has come to dominate the field to such a degree that the students' own experiences and goals are rarely heard. This paper calls for a de-muting of international students in research, so that more research is oriented by their stated priorities. While there has been a shift in this regard around the turn of the millennium, presumptions as to the purpose of educational sojourns remain and continue to colour research.

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“…They argue that immigrant youth are likely to be affected by translocal lives and experience complex intersections of educational transitions and migration (e.g. Robertson et al, 2018;Smith et al, 2014;Tse and Waters, 2013;Brooks et al, 2012;Bitzi and Landolt, 2017, in this special issue). Patrick Rérat's article draws on rich empirical material from Switzerland and addresses internal migration that occurs during the transition from higher education to the labour market.…”

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