Moving and union dissolution

Boyle, Paul J.; Kulu, Hill; Cooke, Thomas J.; Gayle, Vernon; Mulder, Clara H.

doi:10.1353/dem.2008.0000

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“…She (2000) shows that female mobile researchers predominantly move as 'tied' movers, typically following a male partner. This reflects the general pattern observed in other economic sectors (Boyle et al 2008;Cooke 2008) -hence calling for a 'linked life' perspective (Bailey and Mulder 2017). Among academic migrant, tied movers are usually also highly skilled.…”

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Social Mobility via academic mobility: reconfigurations in class and gender identities among Asian scholars in the global north

Leung

2017

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Geographic mobility is increasingly perceived worldwide as a key to academic excellence, career advancement and upward social mobility. Drawing on long-term qualitative fieldwork data, this paper interrogates the impact of academic mobility in reconfiguring class and gender identities among students, early professionals and their families from Hong Kong and Indonesia who have studied or received further training in Germany, the Netherlands and the USA. This analysis problematises the crude 'academic mobility → upward social mobility' formula and considers international academic mobility as a contextual, dynamic and multi-directional process. Through this process social positions and identities of the moving individuals and families are negotiated in an on-going manner as migrants insert into, depart from and re-insert into the various social milieus where their mobility trajectories touch ground. Narratives of interviewees illustrate the complexity and contradictions in class and gender configurations as students move across borders. They show how these individuals are inserted in contrasting social positionings, and experience how a particular social class or gender position carries different connotations. The paper concludes with a few conceptual and methodological reflections.

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Section: Impact Beyond the Student: Classed And Gendered Impact On Thsupporting

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Social Mobility via academic mobility: reconfigurations in class and gender identities among Asian scholars in the global north

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2017

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…The research findings might therefore be taken to challenge extant theorisations of migration, such as those suggesting that the deeper drivers of migration lie in the social and cultural meanings of mobility rather than in more easily understood economic rewards (Findlay and Stockdale, 2003;Halfacree and Boyle, 1993). A more likely resolution of the differences between the authors' findings and the conceptualisation of migration in the research literature might be found in the suggestion that the research results in this paper relate specifically to short-distance internal migration (involving moves associated with factors like housing needs and life-course adjustments such as divorce (Boyle et al, 2008)), and that different findings might emerge from analysis of well-being before and after international migration. In the latter case different scales of cultural and social disruption seem probable that would be anticipated to be linked to longer run migrant experiences of integration or exclusion.…”

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Does Migration Make You Happy? A Longitudinal Study of Internal Migration and Subjective Well-Being

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“…Other studies have considered the relationship between migration and partnership behavior (Boyle et al 2008, Landale & Ogena 1995, Frank & Wildsmith 2005. The foundation of these studies is centered around theories of socialization, adaption, disruption, and selection.…”

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Life Paths of Migrants: A Sequence Analysis of Polish Migrants’ Family Life Trajectories

2015

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INTRODUCTIONThe family-life dynamics of international migrants have become a core topic in demographic studies over the past decades (Kulu & Gonzalez-Ferrer 2014). These studies have focused on different aspects of family-life behavior. For instance, previous research shows that international migration and partner selection are frequently interrelated (Milewski 2003), that moving over long distances influences the stability of a union (Frank & Wildsmith 2005, Boyle et al. 2008, and that migration may alter fertility behavior (Milewski 2007, Lindstrom & Giorguli Saucedo 2002. Many of these studies have focused on the impact of migration on a specific event in the life course. By focusing on events, however, one may miss a deeper insight into the life course, which is unfortunate as life-course theory emphasizes that different events in the life course are not separate experiences, but are linked to one another (Giele & Elder 1998).The main research objective of this paper is to go beyond this event-oriented approach and to provide a more integral picture of the link between migration and family behavior. We develop an empirically grounded typology of partnership, fertility, and migration behavior by applying sequence analysis. This technique can be seen as complementing to the often applied techniques of event history analysis: whereas event history analysis concentrates primarily on causal effects for transitions from one state to another, sequence analysis is an approach aimed at exploring and describing actual life-course trajectories and has more descriptive value (Aisenbrey & Fasang 2010, Billari 2001. Although sequence analysis has increasingly been used in life course research over the past decade (e.g., Aassve et al. 2007, Billari et al. 2006, Bras et al. 2010, Elzinga & Liefbroer 2007, the technique has been relatively little applied in the migration literature. The application of sequence analysis also in the field of migration studies is however a fruitful approach, as it offers a digestible overview of the complex interrelationship between migration and family dynamics. Poland is part of the European Union (EU) since 2004 and Polish migrants are thus free to settle in other EU member states (with some initial barriers on the labor market after EU entry). In this regard, Polish migrants differ strongly from migrants from outside the EU for whom it is much more difficult to travel back and forth between the Netherlands and their country of origin due to compulsory visa requirements (Dagevos 2011). A crucial question of the relatively new intra-European migration flows is therefore whether these migrants will stay temporarily or whether they will settle permanently. Besides economic reasons for returning to the country of origin, the family context also plays a crucial role in the return decisions of immigrants (Dustmann 2003). We will pay specific attention to this and study the permanence of settlement in relation to family trajectories. The trajectory-based approach 5 applied in this study is particul...

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Moving and union dissolution

Cited by 140 publications

References 63 publications

Social Mobility via academic mobility: reconfigurations in class and gender identities among Asian scholars in the global north

Social Mobility via academic mobility: reconfigurations in class and gender identities among Asian scholars in the global north

Does Migration Make You Happy? A Longitudinal Study of Internal Migration and Subjective Well-Being

Life Paths of Migrants: A Sequence Analysis of Polish Migrants’ Family Life Trajectories

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