Transnational youth mobility in the neoliberal economy of experience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12600082 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K Yoon (0000-0003-3055-885X, University of British Columbia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1014-1028 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Youth Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1367-6261 • E-ISSN: 1469-9680 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13676261.2013.878791 |
| OpenAlex | W2084346053 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 66 |
| References cited | 24 |
An increasing number of young people are making long-stay travels while postponing their transition to adulthood and seeking ‘global experience’. Among various forms of long-stay travel, the working holiday has been popular among young people looking for opportunities to work during travel. In order to empirically explore how global experience is negotiated by young travellers, this study analyses the narratives of 30 South Korean working holidaymakers in Toronto, Canada. The in-depth interviews reveal that the working holiday in Canada is considered by its participants to be a process of seeking the ‘true self’ and a way of enhancing social mobility, both of which lead to a sense of self-development. Drawing upon the empirical findings, the article suggests that the discourse of self-development naturalises a particular mode of neoliberal subjectivity and thus standardises the practice of global experience
Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
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Spatial mobility as lived citizenship
‘Sentivo che stavo facendo la cosa giusta’. Aspettative di mobilità geografica e traiettorie socio-culturali degli studenti e delle studentesse in Italia
Introduction to Special Issue
Factors influencing Korean students’ choice of study abroad destination short-term and long-term by destination country
Erasmus students’ motivations in motion
Global Aspirations, Domestic Choices
Polyrhythmic transitions in youth mobilities
Migration and Home
Tourism futures and Working Holiday Maker schemes
Diasporic Hallyu
From Working Tourists to Permanent Residents
Bridging sociology of religion to transition to adulthood
Amplifying the Voices of South Korean Youths as a Generational Minority Against Conventional Paths of Success Through Hip Hop Music
Being positive, being hopeful, being happy
Young People Experiencing Multiple Mobilities
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Clashing Gender in the Age of Transnational Infrastructural Capitalism
Priced out
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Introduction to Special Issue on Inequalities and Youth Mobilities in Europe from Comparative Perspectives
How Young Italians Negotiate and Redefine Their Identity in the Mobility Experience
Exploring (im)mobility in authoritarian contexts
Personal Changes of Young Chinese through Working Holidays in New Zealand
The Precariousness of Young Chinese Being Working Holiday Makers in New Zealand
Staying for the benefits
Unpacking distinction within mobility
Settling down in time and place? Changing intimacies in mobile young people's migration and life courses
Transitions across borders
Transnational mobility desires and discourses
English fever and coffee
If not now, then never’
Growing up and belonging in regimes of geographical mobility. Young cosmopolitans in Berlin
Students’ narratives of the future
Young people, future hopes and concerns in Finland and the European Union
Reframing immobility
Tai-Lao’ in Australia and ‘Losers’ in Taiwan
Inciting youth mobilities
Symbolic mobility capital to fight the social stigma of staying
Mobile transitions
A rite of passage? Exploring youth transformation and global citizenry in the study abroad experience
Framing young South Korean working holidaymakers in Australia
Vietnamese diaspora in Thailand and the making of transnationality
Critical Geographies of Education Beyond “Value”
Geographies of citizenship in higher education
Transnational youth and social mobility
Uneasy belonging in the mobility capsule
Recruiting the “culturally compatible” migrant
A Quest for Passion
Moral Orders of Mobility
Mothers and nation in the global era
Rooted mobilities' in young people's narratives of the future
Beyond the American dream
Enterprising self and bohemian nomad
Be true to yourself
Cosmopolitan pathways from the Global South
Suspending, settling, sponsoring
Educated non-elites' pathways to cosmopolitanism
Introduction
A National Construction of Transnational Mobility in the 'Overseas Working Holiday Phenomenon' in Korea
Healthism, rural individualism and self-help
Keeping Bodies Moving
Privilege and youth migration
Longer-Term Consequences of 'Youth' Migration
Global Identifications
Learning to Labour
International experience and graduate employability
Learning to Labor
Individualization
The OE goes ‘home’
Experiencing globalization
The New Zealand OE as governance through freedom
Backpacker Heaven
Between cosmopolitanism and the locals
Contemporary South Korean society
Japanese Working Holiday Makers in Australia and their Relationship to the Japanese Labour Market
A room of one's own’
Do ‘global citizens’ need the parochial cultural other? Discourse of immersion in study abroad and learning-by-doing
Global nomads
The global auction
Widening the gap
Dropping Out or Signing Up? The Professionalisation of Youth Travel
Employability in a Knowledge-driven Economy
College rank and neo-liberal subjectivity in South Korea
Constructing Global/Local Subjectivities - The New Zealand OE as Governance through Freedom
Global Nomads
Detailing transnational lives of the middle
Working on Holiday
| Unique citing works | 66 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 65 |