scholarly journals Serial migration, multiple belongings and orientations toward the future: The perspective of middle-class migrants in Singapore

2020 ◽  
pp. 144078332096052
Author(s):  
Kellynn Wee ◽  
Brenda SA Yeoh
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
The Future ◽  
Serial Migration ◽  
Direction Of Movement

The growing phenomenon of serial migrants – people who have moved at least three times and profess belongings to more than two places – challenges the dialogic relationship imagined in studies of transnationalism. This is particularly true in the case of the mobile middle class, which has attracted less attention than the multiple migrations of low-waged labour migrants and the global professional elite. Drawing on interviews with 35 Australian and Indonesian migrants in Singapore, this article proposes the idea of orientation in order to understand the serial migration biographies of middle-class migrants. Rather than focusing on the propulsion and direction of movement, the notion of orientation suspends a migrant between reflection, action and imagination as they forge provisional pathways that upend or cleave to more conventional social trajectories. Developing this concept helps us to understand how migrants with middling resources navigate post-national socio-political formations contoured by race, gender, and class.

Liberalism, Islam, and Egypt’s Political Future

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce K. Rutherford
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Liberal State ◽  
Legal Code ◽  
The Future ◽  
Liberal Constitutionalism ◽  
Civil And Political Rights ◽  
Politically Active

This chapter observes that the path of institutional change advocated by market liberals shares important areas of agreement with the reforms advocated by supporters of liberal constitutionalism and Islamic constitutionalism. Each of these groups favors the creation of a more liberal state with effective constraints on its power, a clear and unbiased legal code, and protection of civil and political rights. However, there is no comparable degree of consensus on the value of broadening public participation in politics. This fact suggests that liberalism and democracy have become de-linked in the Egyptian case. Liberalism is likely to progress steadily in the future, while democracy is likely to advance slowly and unevenly. This trajectory may eventually lead to democracy at some point in the future, particularly if liberalism enhances the private sector's independence from the state and leads to a more autonomous and politically active middle class. However, this outcome is not inevitable.

Concluding Thoughts

Watchdog ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 219-228
Author(s):  
Richard Cordray
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Financial Education ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Financial Protection ◽  
Special Interests ◽  
Corporate Power ◽  
Economic Output ◽  
The Future

This chapter argues that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau presents a model for how government can serve all Americans, helping remedy individual injustices and correct larger distortions in our market economy. Providing support to consumers—ranging from financial education to law enforcement to setting regulations that reform dysfunctional practices in the marketplace—contributes to individual well-being and strengthens families. As fully two-thirds of our economic output is consumer driven, shoring up consumers and imposing sensible regulations to curb excesses of corporate power make the economy sounder and more resilient. People are anxious about the future, and they feel the indignity of corporate indifference when their legitimate concerns are ignored or dismissed. If people lose faith in government’s ability to stand up to powerful special interests, their alienation threatens to destabilize a broad and empowered middle class. Promoting and safeguarding a marketplace that serves consumers—all Americans—is essential to our democracy.

scholarly journals VENUGOPAL'S SELF-CONFESSION AND POETRY

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 179-188
Author(s):  
Shahabuddin
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Man ◽  
Taking Action

English: Venugopal has a distinct identity in Hindi poetry. The atmosphere of disillusionment and the social status quo had an effect on your poem. Oriented towards Akavita. But soon you realized his regression. As a result, progressives were oriented towards the stream. The land of reality shaped beautiful dreams of the future. Your poem conveys the hopes, dreams, feelings, sensations of the common man. It also exposes the middle class weaknesses while being sympathetic towards the neglected workers and is a proponent of action against the power. It shares the golden dreams of the future, in retaliation for its oppression-exploitation-violence. It has the content of strategy and tactics for the youth taking action from the power. Sometimes it is very suggestive and expresses socio-political reality in an interesting way. Where the dialogue style is present in it, its symbolism is multidimensional. This poem also questions the role of media by taking a sarcastic pose. Hindi: वेणुगोपाल हिन्दी कविता में विशिष्ट पहचान रखते हैं। मोहभंग के वातावरण और सामाजिक यथास्थिति का आपकी कविता पर प्रभाव पड़ा। अकविता की ओर उन्मुख हुए। परंतु शीघ्र ही आपको उसकी प्रतिगामिता का बोध हुआ। परिणामस्वरूप प्रगतिशील धारा की ओर उन्मुख हुए। यथार्थ की जमीन ने भविष्य के सुन्दर-सुखद स्वप्नों को आकार दिया। आपकी कविता साधारणजन की आशाओं, स्वप्नों, अनुभूतियों, संवेदनाओं को रूपाकार देती है। यह उपेक्षितों-श्रमिकों के प्रति संवेदना रखते हुए भी मध्यवर्गीय कमजोरियों को उजागर करती है और सत्ता के विरुद्ध मोर्चेबन्द कार्रवाही की प्रस्तावक है। यह उसके दमन-शोषण-हिंसा का प्रतिकार करते हुए भी भविष्य के सुनहरे स्वप्न बाँटती है। इसमें सत्ता से मोर्चेबन्द कार्रवाही करते युवाओं हेतु रणनीति और रणकौशल की सामग्री मौजूद है। कहीं-कहीं यह बहुत विचारोत्तेजक है और सामाजिक-राजनीतिक यथार्थ को रोचक ढंग से अभिव्यक्त करती है। इसमें जहाँ संवाद-शैली मौजूद है वहीँ इसकी सांकेतिकता बहुआयामी है। यह कविता व्यंग्यात्मक मुद्रा लेकर मीडिया की भूमिका को भी प्रश्नांकित करती है।

scholarly journals A Scenario Analysis of the 2030 German Spa Tourist and Tourism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Natalie Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Scenario Analysis ◽  
Vertical Axis ◽  
Scenario Planning ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Wealth Creation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Future ◽  
Key Drivers ◽  
Industry Needs

<p>Tourism is affected by growing transformations of social change, globalisation and wealth creation. Uncertainty surrounding the development of the factors makes it difficult to predict and provide contingency for the future. This is especially so for the spa tourism industry given its enormous figures in revenue growth over the past two decades. Given the growth of the spa industry and the key uncertainties that will shape its future, it is important to understand how the landscape of the spa industry might change in the next few decades. Although there has been research done on the future of spa tourism, for example by the Global Spa and Wellness Summit, their work requires more development and is not country-specific. In response, this study is of value as it explores the future of spa tourism in terms of creating multiple potential pathways. It does this from the perspective of the German spa industry, and addresses the interrelationships of these uncertainties. By following the specific methodology of scenario planning, this study develops a scenario analysis of the future of the German spa industry and answers the questions “What will the German spa tourist and spa tourism industry look like in 2030?” The study consisted of 22 semi-structured interviews with a diverse expert panel in Germany. Interview participants identified twelve key drivers which were discussed in light of existing literature. The two most significant key drivers identified in the interviews were then positioned along a two- key matrix with the demanding consumer on the horizontal axis and new distribution of wealth on the vertical axis. Based on these drivers the study presents four plausible yet challenging and completely different scenarios for the development of the German spa tourist and tourism in 2030. The scenarios include prosperous society, highlighting a positive future for German spas due to the growth of the middle class and thus increasing demands and a multifaceted spa clientele; the power elite, concentrating on the super rich spa consumer and their extravagant consumer behaviour; middle class on the brink, presenting a squeezed middle class and a gradient decline of the spa industry; and the welfare state, a gloomy scenario with almost no spa tourism left. Through examination of significant questions and strategic implications, the study concludes that the spa industry needs to challenge its current linear ways of thinking by adopting new insights and perspectives of the future. Furthermore, the industry needs to establish standardised criteria for accreditation and operation of spa facilities. This needs to include a focus on staff training in order to continue to attract the German spa tourist and thus remain profitable in the future.</p>

Canada’s Middle Class—Forever Further Behind?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Osberg
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Income Distribution ◽  
Macroeconomic Policy ◽  
Growth Strategy ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
The Future ◽  
Major Shift ◽  
The Cost

This chapter highlights Canada’s distinctive trajectory of inequality and living standards. Inequality rose markedly because real incomes grew strongly at the very top but stagnated for most of the rest of the income distribution until the resource-led boom of the 2000s. The importance of macroeconomic policy is brought out, in particular the role of monetary policy in choking off growth in order to keep inflation low, at the cost of substantial unemployment. The growth in incomes at the very top may be underestimated by the available estimates, while the weakening of redistribution via the tax and transfer systems has accentuated the trend to greater inequality. The consequences of a sustained ‘squeeze’ on middle incomes and living standards are spelled out and the implications for the future, in the absence of a major shift in the growth strategy, are discussed.

THE INTERGENERATIONAL CHASM

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 63 (5) ◽  
pp. 770-770
Author(s):  
Maureen Howard
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Economic Advantage ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Time Machine ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
New Religions ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Continuum

In these modern times, when neither economic advantage non the nation's good is well-served by fecundity, we reproduce mainly to project ourselves, in some form, into the future not via time machine but by the transmission of our own values, culture, and traditions. If the next generation rejects these in toto, we lose that rickety bridge to a kind of immortality that makes the often dreary business of child-rearing worthwhile. What had turned the recent past into a nightmare for many middle-class parents was the loss of their future in just such terms. Here was the legend given flesh in which their own fine children were stolen from the hearth by the elf thieves of the counterculture who left in their place changelings—bewitched mystics, madmen, bombers and junkies—none of whom would take a place in the continuum of the traditional community.... The children of those changelings... [are being reared in] urban and rural communes, and institutes of the new religions (those of Lamas and Hare Knishnas). [In one] a 10-year-old girl managed to keep an immaculately conventional bedroom—gingham bedspread, curtains, mirror and hairbrushes carefully placed on a dressing table. "If you want to have a straight kid, then be a freaky mother," her mother everlastingly spaced, complained one day.

Finding a Partner

2021 ◽  
pp. 194-215
Author(s):  
Daniel R. Garodnick
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Home Ownership ◽  
Board Members ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Future ◽  
Middle Class People

This chapter delves into Adam Rose's eagerness to find ways to make his mark on the quality of life in the community of Stuyvesant Town and show how he could do a better job than the hated Tishman Speyer. It discusses Rose's first three months as the person in charge, including how he increased the public safety force by 12 percent and promised to reduce on-hold times for maintenance requests. It also highlights the appointment of Jim Yasser as the property's managing director and Charles Bagli, who was writing another piece on what would happen next to Stuy town. The chapter discusses Daniel Garodnick's ongoing intention to pursue a home ownership plan, which would include rules to keep the community affordable for middle-class people into the future. It recounts how new board members of the Tenants Association challenged Garodnick on the contents of Bagli's article.

scholarly journals Builder of Enthusiasm: Shaping a New Profession for the Machine Age

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Choon Choi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Industrial Design ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Machine Age ◽  
The Future ◽  
Residual Values ◽  
Post War

A closer study of the profession of industrial design, as an antithetical practice to architecture, reveals more than what architecture is not; it brings to light some of the residual values in the architectural profession, and inert forces within it, responsible for the dilating disparity between architecture and society at large. By illuminating the historical context in which industrial design as a profession emerged in the post-war America against the backdrop of rapidly expanding middle class and unprecedented material abundance, architects can recalibrate the future trajectory of the profession in alignment with shifting economic contexts.

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