Between privilege and poverty
The affordances of mobility among aid worker children
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11147235 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A M Fechter (0000-0002-9654-156X, University of Sussex, corresponding author), Anne-Meike Fechter |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 489-506 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian and Pacific migration journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0117-1968 • E-ISSN: 2057-049X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0117196816674397 |
| OpenAlex | W2543029146 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
Contemporary research on children affected by migration in Southeast Asia has examined the impact of mobility on their life chances, choices and overall welfare. Extending this concern, this article seeks to address these questions in the context of privileged migration. Specifically, it asks how the mobility of children whose parents work for aid agencies in low-income countries shapes the way they understand and negotiate experiences of privilege, as well as their everyday encounters with poverty. Based on ethnographic research with young people and their families in Cambodia, the findings suggest that parents and children may envisage their international mobility as a chance for personal growth, specifically as manifest in the form of ‘open-mindedness.’ Such positive discourses are complicated, however, by a simultaneously engendered sense of superiority toward those who are less mobile. They are also intertwined with practices of ‘bracketing’ possible frictions arising from their interactions with children of local elite members. While the young people’s proximity to poverty provides opportunities for locally-based service-learning activities, connections with their parents’ work can remain abstract. The article therefore suggests that this form of international mobility may not, in itself, enable a critical engagement with poverty or with their own and others’ privilege
Context (archaeology · Economic growth · Economics · Elite · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Privilege (computing · Social mobility · Social science · Sociology · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |