Mobility and Immobility: Background of the Project

Götz, Irene

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“…Some basic needs are barely met but future opportunities (e.g., employment, education, legal status) are now the major challenges. Nowadays, border regimes are the nation states' powerful agents for maintaining and safeguarding the distinction between those migrants who are welcome and those not admitted (Götz, 2016). As Götz (2016) states, mobility and immobility should not be considered as two ends of the spectrum.…”

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“…Nowadays, border regimes are the nation states' powerful agents for maintaining and safeguarding the distinction between those migrants who are welcome and those not admitted (Götz, 2016). As Götz (2016) states, mobility and immobility should not be considered as two ends of the spectrum. Rather, people often experience both at the same time: asylum-seekers are both mobile and immobilised.…”

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Stuck in transit: asylum-seeking habitus and onward migration aspirations of Sri Lankan Tamil asylum-seekers in Bangkok

Shum

2022

Migration and Development

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Asylum-seekers nowadays undertake multiple journeys before reaching a country of resettlement. In Southeast Asia, several countries are playing important roles as transit locations. This paper focuses on Thailand, which serves as a major transit point for Sri Lankan Tamil asylum-seekers who hope to move to resettlement countries through irregular channels. Drawing on in-depth interviews and ethnographic observations from 2018 to 2019, this paper examines the Sri Lankan Tamil asylum-seekers' migration experiences in Bangkok, and how they plan their onward migration and utilise connection networks. Moving beyond traditional pull-push approach that standardises reasons to flee, this research uses asylum-seeking habitus as a conceptual lens to explore the interactive process between structure (economic and cultural) and asylumseekers, and individual/communal interpretations of such structural environment that trigger onward migration aspirations of asylumseekers in a transit country. In Bangkok, because lived experiences do not meet personal and/or familial expectations, insecurity prevails following news from others in their networks, which then triggers onward migratory disposition among Sri Lankan Tamil asylum-seekers. Asylum-seeking habitus as a conceptual lens provides a useful approach in assisting us in understanding asylumseekers' vision of autonomy by investigating their changing perceptions of security at different stages of the journey.

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Stuck in transit: asylum-seeking habitus and onward migration aspirations of Sri Lankan Tamil asylum-seekers in Bangkok

Shum

2022

Migration and Development

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“…In the 1990s, mobility research started to translate the concept of lifestyles into "mobility styles" [17][18][19]; however, it is normally limited to modal choice. Scheiner and Birgit [18] have focused on the interrelation between social structures (lifestyles, milieus), space-time structures, housing and choice of housing location, and daily mobility.…”

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Resilience of Social Housing in the United Arab Emirates

Assi

2023

Prime Archives in Engineering

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The Social Housing Program initiated by the United Arab Emirates Government in 1971 aimed to upgrade the living conditions of the local Emiratis. The early housing projects were later known as Shabiyat. Individuals living in harsh conditions in the mountains of Ras Al Khaimah were willingly and within a short period relocated to new houses an approximate distance from their original homes, and they had to adapt to the new lifestyle and place. Due to changes in these individuals' everyday practices, they questioned the resilience of their new houses. This study aimed to investigate the degree of resilience of the early Shabiyat housing and examine the notion of home mobility and how it is related to resilience through physical and nonphysical spatial transformation and everyday practice. The study is structured into two sections: first, understanding the resilience of the traditional settlements in the mountains; and second, examining the main characteristics of early Shabiyat, its main concept, and how it has addressed the Emirati society's needs. This will assist in tracing these structures' patterns of resilience and offer some practical guidance for professionals and the public in developing policies toward maximizing the sustainability of proposed future social housing projects.

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Migration as mobility? An intersectional approach

Thimm¹,

Chaudhuri

2019

Applied Mobilities

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Mobility and Immobility: Background of the Project

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Stuck in transit: asylum-seeking habitus and onward migration aspirations of Sri Lankan Tamil asylum-seekers in Bangkok

Stuck in transit: asylum-seeking habitus and onward migration aspirations of Sri Lankan Tamil asylum-seekers in Bangkok

Resilience of Social Housing in the United Arab Emirates

Migration as mobility? An intersectional approach

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