La Chaire de recherche sur les dynamiques migratoires mondiales et le CELAT vous invitent à assister à la conférence « Onward lifestyle migration via the Global South: The interplay of lifestyle and educational aspirations of Japanese families in Malaysia » que présentera en anglais Hiroki Igarashi (Chiba University, Université Laval) le lundi 11 mars 2024, de 11 h à 12 h 30, à l’Université Laval (pavillon Charles-De Koninck, salle 5168) et en ligne. Le professeur Matthew Hayes (Université Saint-Thomas) agira comme discutant.
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Résumé de la présentation de Hiroki Igarashi
« The existing understanding of onward migration has discussed the mobilities of people from the Global South to the North and within the Global North. This presentation introduces a pattern of onward lifestyle migration from the Global North to the South and beyond, by employing the interview data of 46 middle- and higher-class Japanese families migrating to Malaysia with children. My presentation consists of three parts. First, I explore how the development of migration infrastructure has facilitated the mobilities of people from Japan to Malaysia for purposes such as international education, retirement, and property tourism. The second part examines how Japanese families make sense in choosing Malaysia. In particular, I focus on how they evaluate international education in Malaysia as “ideal” by referring to Japanese education. Lastly, I examine how they imagine and generate their future transnational mobilities–such as return, stepwise education, and stepwise lifestyle mobilities on regional and global scales– by negotiating their lifestyle and educational aspirations. »
Notices biographiques
Hiroki Igarashi is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Global and Transdisciplinary Studies at Chiba University, Japan (and professeur invité at Université Laval). He obtained a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (U.S.A.). His research topic is the privileged form of transnational migration of Japanese families. His major publications are: « Privileged Japanese transnational families in Hawaii as lifestyle migrants » from Global Networks, and « Cosmopolitanism as cultural capital: Exploring the intersection of globalization, education and stratification » from Cultural Sociology (co-authored with Hiro Saito). His ongoing research projects explore Japanese families’ transnational migration in Southeast Asia for the purposes of their lifestyle fulfillment and children’s education (Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore) and how the nature of elite education in Singapore has been transformed by digitalization.
Matthew Hayes is professor of sociology and Canada Research Chair in Global and Transnational Studies at St. Thomas University in Fredericton. He is the author of Gringolandia: Lifestyle Migration under Late Capitalism (University of Minnesota Press). His research looks at the material and cultural contexts of transnational lifestyle migration from high-income to low-income countries. His work is published in English, French and Spanish.