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Globalised Dreams, Local Constraints: migration and youth aspirations in…
Globalised Dreams, Local Constraints: migration and youth aspirations in an Indian regional town
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Authors: Brown Trent, Scrase Timothy J., Ganguly-Scrase R..
University: The University of Melbourne, Australian Catholic University etc.
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Volume, Year, Pages: 2017, 14 pages
Introduction
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Problem: Neoliberal globalisation created opportunities in citites, and rural areas are excluded from benefits' destribution. Youth living there experiences some discomfort and as a result strive to leave for big cities. It leads to conflicts among generations, because parents were not influenced by neoliberal globalisation discourses.
Purpose: to study how the circulating goods and ideas influence their aspiration for migration;
to gain insights into how much have changeed between two generations
RQ: How is the sense of inadequacy is forged and sustained, allowing migration to continue to feature in youth aspirations, despite numerous accounts of negative experiences outside Darjeeling?
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Sample: 70 residents of Darjeeling, 33 of them between 18 and 30 y.o. middle-class families
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Geography of Research: Darjeeling, New Dehli, India
MAIN PART
Concepts and Theories: Globalization, neoliberal modernity
THE FINDINGS:
The desire for 'exposure':
- Peers as 'successful migrants'
- desire to be fashionable
- sense of liberation
- city gives a sense of direction
- 'high kind of life'
Education and Employment in Darjeeling:
- British Schools
- Poor Quality Colleges
- No job (except for governmental)
Family, generation gaps and frustrated mobility:
- government jobs = socially prescribed way
- bond becomes bondage
Uneven temporalities:
- the rythms of urban life
- time as a precious resource
- 'it will happen'
- disconnection of Darjeeling from neoliberal world
The Centrality of Migration:
- 'forced' to migrate
- discrimination because of East-Asian appearance
- two types of migrants: students and labour
- cash income and downgrading of quality of life
Conclusion: Spatially and temporally uneven effects of globalization reproduces a sense of regional inferiority in the following ways:
- lack of 'exposure'
- traditional family constraints
- the temporality of cut-throat neoliberal competition