Coates, J. orcid.org/0000-0001-7905-9504 (2013) Everyday Mobility: the Normalization of China-Japan Migratory Flows and their ‘Everyday Practice’. International Review of Social Research, 3 (1). pp. 7-26. ISSN 2069-8267
Abstract
Chinese migrants now constitute the largest group of registered ‘foreigners’ in Japan, with over 600,000 documented in 2006. This is the result of an intersection between the Chinese government’s drive for educational and economic success, and Japan’s flexible student visa labour system. It is the product of a ‘normalization’ of mobility amongst young mobile Chinese. Based on 20 months fieldwork in Tokyo, Japan, I explore the ways in which the decision to move is experienced as mundane, and how it is negotiated as a form of ‘everyday practice.’ Through this lens, this article posits multiple relationships between mobility, its limits and how this relates to mobile people’s sense of place in the world.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © University of Bucharest. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND licence. |
Keywords: | Japan; China; young mobility; everyday practice |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of East Asian Studies (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 01 May 2019 15:34 |
Last Modified: | 01 May 2019 15:40 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Walter de Gruyter |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1515/irsr-2013-0002 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:145214 |
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