Kumiko Kawashima
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3639433 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kumiko Kawashima |
| PRENOMES | Kumiko |
| SOBRENOME | Kawashima |
| ASSINATURA | KAWASHIMA K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Macquarie University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1961 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Why migrate to earn less? Changing tertiary education, skilled migration and class slippage in an economic downturn
This paper examines the changing experience of middle-class labour in an economic downturn and its relation to migration motivations. At the heart of this paper is an intriguing question of why educated middle-class workers would leave metropolises with high standards of living to work in a provincial city abroad where they perform routine tasks and earn less than they would in comparable positions back home. An analysis of in-depth interviews wi…
Japanese Labour Migration to China and IT Service Outsourcing
In this chapter, I trace the trajectory of Japanese IT service labour migration to the northeast Chinese city of Dalian from its emergence in the mid-2000s up to the present. Drawing on literature research and interview data obtained between 2013 and 2015, I examine the experience of Japanese migrants and the role they play in the expansion of Dalian's service outsourcing sector. Multinational firms increasingly use offshore outsourcing to reduce…
Longer-Term Consequences of 'Youth' Migration
This paper examines Japanese ‘youth’ in their mid-twenties to mid-thirties who participated in temporary migration to Dalian, a northeastern Chinese city, at a turning point in their life course. They left economically stagnant Japan to work in the digital service outsourcing sector targeting the Japanese market, by providing remote customer service in their native language. While the workers enjoy some perks of corporate employment and skilled m…
Introduction for a special section on mobilities and exceptional spaces in Asia
Changing practices of capitalism have produced new forms of connections, flows and mobilities in Asia, and they intersect with the increased use of “exceptions” or “special rules” to maximize capitalist profits. Ranging from the Greater Mekong Sub-region and the ASEAN Free Trade Area to the more recently opened Shanghai Free-Trade Zone, many Asian countries have benefited from such special zones in recent decades, the use of which has become a st…
Digital Outsourcing and Japanese Call Center Workers in Dalian, China
Service outsourcing and labour mobility in a digital age
In this article, I examine the transnational mobility of digital workers and the control of their labour across multiple production sites. The digitalization of work has progressively allowed businesses to outsource IT-enabled service jobs to cheaper production sites offshore. The growth of the 'offshore outsourcing' of white-collar service jobs in East Asia has produced the mobility of cheap digital labour from Japan to Dalian in northeast China…
Japanese Working Holiday Makers in Australia and their Relationship to the Japanese Labour Market
The Working Holiday is a relatively new but rapidly growing form of transnational mobility. In Australia, Working Holiday Makers (WHMs) form the largest group of Japanese temporary migrants, and their numbers have been increasing. In this paper, I will discuss the experience of returned WHMs in the light of Japanese labour practice. For my interlocutors, the motivations for taking a Working Holiday were frequently related to their dissatisfaction…
Contributions to the Study of Psychophysiological Induction (65)
Japanese Working Holiday Makers in Australia and their Relationship to the Japanese Labour Market
The Working Holiday is a relatively new but rapidly growing form of transnational mobility. In Australia, Working Holiday Makers (WHMs) form the largest group of Japanese temporary migrants, and their numbers have been increasing. In this paper, I will discuss the experience of returned WHMs in the light of Japanese labour practice. For my interlocutors, the motivations for taking a Working Holiday were frequently related to their dissatisfaction…
Longer-Term Consequences of 'Youth' Migration
This paper examines Japanese ‘youth’ in their mid-twenties to mid-thirties who participated in temporary migration to Dalian, a northeastern Chinese city, at a turning point in their life course. They left economically stagnant Japan to work in the digital service outsourcing sector targeting the Japanese market, by providing remote customer service in their native language. While the workers enjoy some perks of corporate employment and skilled m…
Why migrate to earn less? Changing tertiary education, skilled migration and class slippage in an economic downturn
This paper examines the changing experience of middle-class labour in an economic downturn and its relation to migration motivations. At the heart of this paper is an intriguing question of why educated middle-class workers would leave metropolises with high standards of living to work in a provincial city abroad where they perform routine tasks and earn less than they would in comparable positions back home. An analysis of in-depth interviews wi…
Service outsourcing and labour mobility in a digital age
In this article, I examine the transnational mobility of digital workers and the control of their labour across multiple production sites. The digitalization of work has progressively allowed businesses to outsource IT-enabled service jobs to cheaper production sites offshore. The growth of the 'offshore outsourcing' of white-collar service jobs in East Asia has produced the mobility of cheap digital labour from Japan to Dalian in northeast China…
Contributions to the Study of Psychophysiological Induction (65)
Japanese Working Holiday Makers in Australia and their Relationship to the Japanese Labour Market
The Working Holiday is a relatively new but rapidly growing form of transnational mobility. In Australia, Working Holiday Makers (WHMs) form the largest group of Japanese temporary migrants, and their numbers have been increasing. In this paper, I will discuss the experience of returned WHMs in the light of Japanese labour practice. For my interlocutors, the motivations for taking a Working Holiday were frequently related to their dissatisfaction…
Introduction for a special section on mobilities and exceptional spaces in Asia
Changing practices of capitalism have produced new forms of connections, flows and mobilities in Asia, and they intersect with the increased use of “exceptions” or “special rules” to maximize capitalist profits. Ranging from the Greater Mekong Sub-region and the ASEAN Free Trade Area to the more recently opened Shanghai Free-Trade Zone, many Asian countries have benefited from such special zones in recent decades, the use of which has become a st…
Digital Outsourcing and Japanese Call Center Workers in Dalian, China
Service outsourcing and labour mobility in a digital age
In this article, I examine the transnational mobility of digital workers and the control of their labour across multiple production sites. The digitalization of work has progressively allowed businesses to outsource IT-enabled service jobs to cheaper production sites offshore. The growth of the 'offshore outsourcing' of white-collar service jobs in East Asia has produced the mobility of cheap digital labour from Japan to Dalian in northeast China…
Longer-Term Consequences of 'Youth' Migration
This paper examines Japanese ‘youth’ in their mid-twenties to mid-thirties who participated in temporary migration to Dalian, a northeastern Chinese city, at a turning point in their life course. They left economically stagnant Japan to work in the digital service outsourcing sector targeting the Japanese market, by providing remote customer service in their native language. While the workers enjoy some perks of corporate employment and skilled m…
Japanese Labour Migration to China and IT Service Outsourcing
In this chapter, I trace the trajectory of Japanese IT service labour migration to the northeast Chinese city of Dalian from its emergence in the mid-2000s up to the present. Drawing on literature research and interview data obtained between 2013 and 2015, I examine the experience of Japanese migrants and the role they play in the expansion of Dalian's service outsourcing sector. Multinational firms increasingly use offshore outsourcing to reduce…
Why migrate to earn less? Changing tertiary education, skilled migration and class slippage in an economic downturn
This paper examines the changing experience of middle-class labour in an economic downturn and its relation to migration motivations. At the heart of this paper is an intriguing question of why educated middle-class workers would leave metropolises with high standards of living to work in a provincial city abroad where they perform routine tasks and earn less than they would in comparable positions back home. An analysis of in-depth interviews wi…
Business (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Economics (6 obras) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (6 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · China (4 obras) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (4 obras) · Outsourcing (4 obras) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (3 obras) · Economy (3 obras)