Privileged Japanese transnational families in Hawaii as lifestyle migrants

Bibliographic Data

ID4263243
AuthorsHiroki Igarashi (Department of Sociology University of Hawai'i at Mānoa 247 Saunders Hall, 2424 Maile Way Honolulu Hawaii 96822 USA, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume15
Issue1
Pages99-117
Publication date2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobal Networks (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1470-2266 • E-ISSN: 1471-0374
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/glob.12049
OpenAlexW1980410379
LanguageEN
Citations received22
References cited35

This study of privileged Japanese families in Hawaii revisits the claim that East Asian transnational families relocate overseas either to improve their well-being or to enhance their status through their children's international education. Existing scholarship has focused mainly on the second pattern of status-seeking migration, conceptualized as 'education migration'. By employing Benson and O'Reilly's concept of 'lifestyle migration', I consider the less widely studied case of migration strategies designed to increase well-being. The central difference between the two types of migrants lies in the way that migrant women construct their gendered identity through their transnational split-household arrangement - a freer self (lifestyle migrants) or a sacrificial self (education migrants). In conclusion, I call for further research on this neglected topic and propose an important dimension to facilitate lifestyle migration, gender

Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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