Changing patterns of migration to Australia's Northern Territory: Evidence of new forms of escalator migration to frontier regions?

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Martel ◽  
Andrew Taylor ◽  
Dean Carson
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Career Advancement ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Population Ageing ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
New Perspective

Building on Fielding’s idea of escalator regions as places where young people migrate (often temporarily) to get rapid career advancement, this paper proposes a new perspective on 'escalator migration' as it applies to frontier or remote regions in particular. Life events, their timing and iterations have changed in the thirty years since Fielding first coined the term ‘escalator region’, with delayed adulthood, multiple career working lives, population ageing and different dynamics between men and women in the work and family sphere. The object of this paper is to examine recent migration trends to Australia's Northern Territory for evidence of new or emerging 'escalator migrants'.

Social Norms, Choice, and Work

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christie Hartley
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
The Political ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Gendered Division Of Labor

In modern liberal democracies, the gendered division of labor is partially the result of men and women making different choices about work and family life, even if such choices stem from social norms about gender. The choices that women make relative to men’s disadvantage them in various ways: such choices lead them to earn less, enjoy less power and prestige in the labor market, be less able to participate in the political sphere on an equal basis, make them to some degree financially dependent on others, and leave them at a bargaining disadvantage and vulnerable in certain personal relationships. This chapter considers if and when the state should intervene to address women’s disadvantage and inequalities that are the result of gender specialization. It is argued that political liberals can and sometimes must intervene in the gendered division of labor when persons’ interests as free and equal citizens are frustrated.

Triangulations of “Motherly Love”: Negotiated Intimacies among Migrant Domestic Workers, Mothers, and Children

2021 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2199385
Author(s):  
Iris Hoiting
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Gender Expectations ◽  
Mothers And Children ◽  
Care Relationships ◽  
Relational Contexts ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Migrant Domestic Workers

Persistent economic inequality between men and women, combined with differences in gender expectations and growing inequalities among women globally, has resulted in families “outsourcing” childcare by employing migrant domestic workers (MDWs). While studies have addressed the intimacy and complexity of “mothering” in such contexts, the agentic position of child-recipients of such care have seldom been explored. This article increases our understanding of care-relationships by examining their triangularity among children, MDWs, and mothers in Hong Kong. Drawing on in-depth interviews with young people who grew up with MDWs, alongside interviews with MDWs themselves, this article describes processes through which care work transforms into what Lynch describes as “love labor” in these relational contexts. In these contexts, commodified care from MDWs can develop, through a process of mutual trilateral negotiations, into intimate love-laboring relationships that, in turn, reflect larger dynamics of familial transformation that are endemic to “global cities.”

Work and family roles and the association with depressive and anxiety disorders: Differences between men and women

2008 ◽  
Vol 105 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 63-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Plaisier ◽  
J.G.M. de Bruijn ◽  
J.H. Smit ◽  
R. de Graaf ◽  
M. ten Have ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Anxiety Disorders ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Family Roles ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Work And Family Roles

Life events preceding suicide by young people

2002 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 271-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Cooper ◽  
L. Appleby ◽  
T. Amos
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Life Events

Controlled Exertion of Force by Developmentally Delayed Young Men and Women

2005 ◽  
Vol 101 (2) ◽  
pp. 487-497
Author(s):  
Yoshinori Nagasawa ◽  
Shinichi Demura
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Young People ◽  
Voluntary Movement ◽  
Large Individual ◽  
Developmentally Delayed ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Function Test ◽  
Delayed Group ◽  
Movement Function

Present purposes were to examine the characteristics of controlled force exertion in 28 developmentally delayed young people (14 men, 14 women), and sex differences compared to 28 normal young students (14 men, 14 women). The subjects matched their submaximal grip strength to changing demand values displayed in a bar chart on the display of a personal computer. The total sum of the differences between the demand value and grip exertion value for 25 sec. was used as an evaluation parameter for the test. The controlled force exertion was significantly poorer for the developmentally delayed group than for controls, and there were large individual differences. The developmentally delayed men scored poorer than women in coordination. Like the controls, the means between trials did not decrease significantly. For these developmentally delayed subjects, performance did not improve after only a few trials. The controlled force-exertion test is useful as a voluntary movement-function test for developmentally delayed subjects.

scholarly journals Effects of life events on infertility diagnosis: comparison with presumably fertile men and women

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carina Santos ◽  
Maria Pedro Sobral ◽  
Mariana V. Martins
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
Men And Women

scholarly journals The Marihuana Habit: Some Observations of a Small Group of Users*

1968 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. A. Norton
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Group Process ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Important Variable ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Parent Population ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Philosophy Of Life ◽  
Group Belongingness

A sampling of the literature on marihuana has been presented, and a description has been given of some of the attributes of a small group of marihuana smokers in the community. This group is probably not well representative, however, of a largely unknown parent population. While not entirely homogeneous, and while probably harbouring one or two marginally functioning people, this group may be described as composed of still young men and women of quite good intelligence and education, expressing preference for aesthetic, experiential values. For the most part single and without dependants, they support themselves in relatively conventional occupations but lean, less in fact and more in aspiration, towards what one might call artistic and expressive occupations. Current religious attachments are disowned and, instead, they are in search of some philosophy of life, adopting what one might call humanistic principles. They tend to see themselves, as, after all, most social groups do, as enlightened; and they feel united in their rejection or questioning of what they perceive as the contemporary social establishment. Some of them have misgivings about themselves, and are not sure of where they are going. However, the group probably assuages some of these anxieties, and possibly offers quite useful support to some of its less resourceful members. Perhaps, one of the most striking and seemingly paradoxical aspects of the situation is that, despite protestations of extraversion, concern with ‘the real’, and group belongingness, the apparent common denomination of the association lies in the seeking of what are entirely introversive or subjective experiences of an ‘unreal’, transcendental sort, and subsisting mainly in highly individualized phenomena. This consideration at least raises the question of whether the stronger gratification may not lie in membership of the group, rather than simply in indulging the marihuana habit for its own sake. The narcissistic aspects of the group process appear to constitute one important variable underlying the apparent difficulty and delay which these young people meet in establishing an eventual identification of sorts (probably in most cases) with a wider and more representative community.

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