The EU migrant generation in Asia : middle-class aspirations in Asian global cities
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The EU migrant generation in Asia : middle-class aspirations in Asian global cities
(Global migration and social change / series editors, Nando Sigona, Alan Gamlen)
Bristol University Press, 2022
- hbk.
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART I: Spatial Mobility to Asia: Moving Ahead by Moving Out
1. The EU Generation and Their Migration Motivations
2. Destination Singapore: The Dream of a Cosmopolis
3. Global City Tokyo: Japan's Diversification from Within
PART II: Organisational and Career Mobility: Seizing Security, Success and Self-Realisation
4. Singapore: Professionalising the Self
5. Tokyo: (Dis)Embedding in the Japanese Labour Market
6. Career Trajectories through an Intersectional Lens
PART III: (Im)Mobility through Differentiated Embedding: The Ties That Bind
7. Immobility and Emplacement: Making the City Home
8. Belonging through Romantic Relationships
Conclusion
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