The EU Migrant Generation in Asia : : Middle-Class Aspirations in Asian Global Cities / / Helena Hof.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Hof, Helena,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Bristol University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Global Migration and Social Change
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 6 Black and White

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

Front Matter -- Contents -- Series Preface -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Notes on the Author -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Spatial Mobility to Asia: Moving Ahead by Moving Out -- The EU Generation and Their Migration Motivations -- Destination Singapore: The Dream of a Cosmopolis -- Global City Tokyo: Japan’s Diversification from Within -- Organisational and Career Mobility: Seizing Security, Success and Self-Realisation -- Singapore: Professionalising the Self -- Tokyo: (Dis)Embedding in the Japanese Labour Market -- Career Trajectories through an Intersectional Lens -- (Im)Mobility through Differentiated Embedding: The Ties That Bind -- Immobility and Emplacement: Making the City Home -- Belonging through Romantic Relationships -- Conclusion -- Positionality: Researching Migrants as a Migrant -- Demographic Profiles of Interlocutors -- References -- Index