From lost identity to identity grafting: The second generation migrant workers in Beijing

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wing On Lee ◽  
Ji Qi
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Generation Migrant

How Far is the Employment Transformation of “the Second-Generation Migrant Workers”

2014 ◽  
Vol 651-653 ◽  
pp. 1586-1589
Author(s):  
Hong Yin Liu ◽  
Yun Fei Ma
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Labor Rights ◽  
Constraint Factors ◽  
Binary Segmentation ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas ◽  
Employment Quality ◽  
Generation Migrant

The objective of this discussion is to increase the employment quality of “the second-generation migrant workers”. By means of descriptive empirical analysis and theoretical analysis method, the paper conducts the research on the problem of employment quality of new generation migrant workers and the constraint factors on employment transformation. The findings show that the accumulation of income gap between urban and rural areas makes “the second-generation migrant workers” new proletarian class. Triple constraints such as human capital, social capital and psychological capital prolong their employment transformation. Dispatching employment gnaws on migrant workers’ labor rights and interests as a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Social discrimination intensifies binary segmentation of urban and rural labor market. It is difficult for migrant workers to achieve professional development.

scholarly journals EXPRESS: The Management of Second-Generation Migrant Workers in China: A Case Study of Centrifugal Paternalism

2021 ◽  
pp. 001872672110329
Author(s):  
Jingqi Zhu ◽  
Rick Delbridge
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Urban Transition ◽  
Management Regime ◽  
Neoliberal Capitalism ◽  
Personal Skills ◽  
Chinese Company ◽  
Generation Migrant

How have organisations sought to manage tensions between the needs for flexible labour in neoliberal market economies and the benefits of a committed and motivated workforce? Through an in-depth, qualitative study of a Chinese company, we identify and theorise a novel variation of paternalism that was developed by the organisation to manage the tensions under neoliberal capitalism. We label this management regime ‘centrifugal paternalism’ since it organises employment relations along the lines of ‘adult-like’ employers and ‘child-like’ employees but involves the diminution of employee dependency over time with an ultimate impulse away from the employing organisation. We find that the emergence of centrifugal paternalism is closely related both to the socio-demographic identity of the company’s employees as China’s second-generation migrant workers and to the economic context of the organisation. Through a ‘tough love’ approach, this regime allows the firm to secure flexible labour while responding to migrant workers’ needs for personal skills development and a fruitful rural-to-urban transition. Our research responds to recent calls for reconnecting organisation studies with society and situating workplace practices within their contexts. It also underlines the enduring importance of paternalism for understanding the dynamic and evolving nature of capitalist employment relations and management regimes.

scholarly journals “I’m kind of agnostic”

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Nirukshi Perera
Keyword(s):  
First Generation ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Hindu Temple ◽  
Migrant Youth ◽  
Belief Narratives ◽  
Working Out ◽  
Generation Migrant ◽  
Second Generation Migrants

Abstract Transplanting non-Western religions to Western nations results in first-generation migrant attempts to transmit faith in vastly different contexts. Especially as adolescents, second-generation migrants tackle mediating their personal religious beliefs in a society with diverse religions and ideologies as well as negotiating membership of their ethnoreligious community. This paper draws from an ethnography in a Tamil Hindu temple in Australia. I present Sri Lankan teenage migrants’ discourse from their faith classroom to elucidate processes of belief positioning. In working out their emergent, and provisional, faith identities, the students deploy mainly Tamil and English linguistic features in their belief narratives. Flexible languaging complements their “syncretic acts” – the practice of drawing on diverse ideologies and experiences (outside the boundaries of a particular religion) to form personalized beliefs. Translanguaging thus facilitates the expression of circumspect, nuanced, and non-traditional interpretations of their heritage religion. Understanding such processes of belief positioning can help societies and institutions to work towards migrant youth inclusion.

Visualizing Spatialization at a Crossroads between Translation and Mobility: Italian Australian Artist Jon Cattapan’s Cityscapes

2020 ◽  
pp. 179-206
Author(s):  
Eliana Maestri
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Linguistic Landscape ◽  
Optical Reflection ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Artistic Career ◽  
Generation Migrant

Maestri looks at how Italian experiences of migration to Australia inform artistic practices and, at the same time, how Italian Australian artworks visually translate mobility and migrant routes across the world. She focuses on the artistic career and productions of Melbourne-based second-generation migrant Jon Cattapan. Her analysis shows how his visual artwork can be read as a diasporic narrative and optical reflection on the added value provided by migration to the physiognomy and morphology of the city’s linguistic landscape. It asks how his art displays imaginary journeys across generations, ethnicities, and boundaries, and how it translates discourses of mobility and movement. The chapter aims to respond to the need to study constructions of Italianness in the face of constant reshaping of transcultural spaces and multimodal connections.

The Mnemonic Imagination and Second-Generation Migrant Experience

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Keightley ◽  
Michael Pickering
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
The Past ◽  
Considerable Resistance ◽  
Professional Photographer ◽  
Generation Migrant

Drawing on our concept of the mnemonic imagination, this chapter shows how the past is reactivated and pieced together into a relatively coherent narrative in the interests of identity and the effective management of change. In forming the synthetic hub of remembering and imagining, the mnemonic imagination is mobilized in bringing past, present, and future into meaningful correspondence. This chapter illustrates how this happens via an ethnographic case study involving Kia Kapoor, a second-generation Indian woman in her early 30s living in England, who uses her work as a professional photographer to help her negotiate her own difficult past as someone caught between two cultures. The case demonstrates mnemonic imagining at work in a particular cross-generational and cross-cultural context, taking into account how it can be thwarted by various obstacles and how, through considerable resistance and struggle, it can help overcome the consequences of radical sociocultural disruption.

scholarly journals Perceptions of Diversity Management Practices among First- versus Second-generation Migrants

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 844-863
Author(s):  
Sophie Hennekam ◽  
Sabine Bacouel-Jentjens ◽  
Inju Yang
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Organisational Justice ◽  
Extended Case Method ◽  
First And Second Generation ◽  
Second Generation Migrants

Drawing on an extended case method approach consisting of observations, analysis of organisational documents and semi-structured in-depth interviews with first- and second-generation migrants working in a French car manufacturing company, this article examines how and why diversity management practices are perceived differently by first- versus second-generation migrant workers. Using social identity theory and equity theory as a theoretical framework, it was found that first- and second-generation migrants have different social expectations, which, in turn, influence their self-image, as well as their perception of organisational justice. The interaction between their social identity and their perception of justice affects how they appraise diversity management practices in their organisation. The study extends previous research on migrant workers and diversity management by building a conceptual model that outlines how and why diversity management practices are perceived differently by first- versus second-generation migrants.

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