The EU Migrant Generation in Asia: Middle-Class Aspirations in Asian Global Cities

Helena Hof

Published by Bristol University Press 2022

The EU Migrant Generation in Asia

Middle-Class Aspirations in Asian Global Cities

Helena Hof

In the series Global Migration and Social Change

https://doi.org/10.56687/9781529225020

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About this book

Drawing on an extensive study with young individuals who migrated to Singapore and Tokyo in the 2010s, this book sheds light on the friendships, emotions, hopes and fears involved in establishing life as Europeans in Asia. It demonstrates how migration to Asian business centres has become a way of distinction and an alternative route of middle-class reproduction for young Europeans during that period. The perceived insecurities of life in the crisis-ridden EU result in these migrants’ onward migration or prolonged stays in Asia. Capturing the changing roles of Singapore and Japan as migration destinations, this pioneering work makes the case for EU citizens’ aspired lifestyles and professional employment that is no longer only attainable in Europe or the West.

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Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Series Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
List of Figures and Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Glossary Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Notes on the Author Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Spatial Mobility to Asia: Moving Ahead by Moving Out
The EU Generation and Their Migration Motivations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Destination Singapore: The Dream of a Cosmopolis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Global City Tokyo: Japan’s Diversification from Within Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
Organisational and Career Mobility: Seizing Security, Success and Self-Realisation
Singapore: Professionalising the Self Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Tokyo: (Dis)Embedding in the Japanese Labour Market Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Career Trajectories through an Intersectional Lens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
(Im)Mobility through Differentiated Embedding: The Ties That Bind
Immobility and Emplacement: Making the City Home Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Belonging through Romantic Relationships Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
Positionality: Researching Migrants as a Migrant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
Demographic Profiles of Interlocutors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242

Language: English
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 240
Illustrations
- Other: 6 Black and White

eBook

Published: December 1, 2022
ISBN: 9781529225020