Self-searching migrants
Youth and adulthood, work and holiday in the lives of Japanese temporary residents in Canada and Australia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2997883 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Etsuko Kato (0000-0002-7444-2747, International Christian University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 20-34 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1683-478X • E-ISSN: 2168-4227 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1683478x.2013.774309 |
| OpenAlex | W2152602278 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
| References cited | 12 |
Since the early 1990s, pushed by domestic economic recession and uncertainty of their life paths, young Japanese have been flying to Canada and Australia not only for holiday experiences, English learning, and temporary work, but also in the quest to find oneself. Searching for “international” work they really want to do, they often prolong their sojourning. Host countries often keep them in temporary resident status, postponing their career development. Suspended in foreigner status, the migrants themselves extend their “subjective youth” – what they see as an ongoing preparatory period in their lives. Based on fieldwork in Vancouver and Sydney, this paper elucidates how the emerging population of self-searching migrants blurs the conventional boundaries between youth and adulthood, and work and holiday, as well as sojourning and immigrating, thus extending “youth experience” indefinitely
Economic growth · Economics · Population · Recession · Sociology · Demography · Engineering · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
Polyrhythmic transitions in youth mobilities
Uncrossed Asianisms
Tai-Lao’ in Australia and ‘Losers’ in Taiwan
Chinese Working Holidaymakers in New Zealand
Tourism futures and Working Holiday Maker schemes
The coloniality of Casa. Homing, emerging adulthood, and differentiated embedding among South-Italian Youth in Northern England
Mobility without Diaspora
The racialised mobility of transnational working holidays
When a man flies overseas
Asianisms in motion
Transnational mobility to South Korea among Japanese students
Descending from Japan
Personal Changes of Young Chinese through Working Holidays in New Zealand
Young Chinese Becoming Working Holiday makers in New Zealand
Who am I with others
Invisibility while under Scrutiny
Voluntary Underclass
Using reflexivity to explain variations in migration among the highly-skilled
Becoming “Platform Workers
Recruiting the “culturally compatible” migrant
Student Mobility and Transnational Social Ties as Factors of Reflexivity
Suspending, settling, sponsoring
Forging mobilities, becoming ideal workers? Temporary migration and the gig economy
Privilege and youth migration
Longer-Term Consequences of 'Youth' Migration
Growing up abroad
The Historical meanings of work
Modernity at large
Modernity and Self-Identity
Misleading Trajectories
Young People and Contradictions of Inclusion
Changes in the transition to adulthood in the UK and Canada
Rethinking the Youth Phase of the Life-course
Japanese Working Holiday Makers in Australia and their Relationship to the Japanese Labour Market
Migration and the Search for a Better Way of Life
Farewell to Nippon
| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,17 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |