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Aspirations and the subjective future of migration: comparing views and desires of the “time ahead” through the narratives of immigrant domestic workers

Overview of attention for article published in Comparative Migration Studies, February 2017
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Title
Aspirations and the subjective future of migration: comparing views and desires of the “time ahead” through the narratives of immigrant domestic workers
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Comparative Migration Studies, February 2017
DOI 10.1186/s40878-016-0047-6
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Paolo Boccagni

Abstract

Migrants' aspirations are a meaningful and under-appreciated research subject. My paper investigates their development and implications over the life course, building on an archive of life stories of immigrant domestic workers in Italy. It dissects the biographical bases of aspirations as ways of cultivating open representations of the future; hence, as a window on migrants' potential to shape the future itself, given their assets, the external structure of opportunities and the relational fields in which they are embedded. Migrants' views and desires about the future, as individuals and members of families and broader communities, evolve in parallel with their biographies. Over time, they face "reality checks" which may make them elusive, opening up to unintended social consequences. Immigrant domestic workers in Italy are a case in point. What these interviewees reportedly aspired then, while leaving home, may significantly differ from what they do aspire now; a gap which is telling of their often limited scope to negotiate a way across local and transnational life milieus. I reconceptualise this gap in aspirations, and in their accomplishment, in terms of "contents", "references" and "horizons". How and why migrant aspirations are transformed over time, and how different kinds of aspirations impinge on their life trajectories, are questions that generate fruitful insights for migration studies.

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Unknown 120 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 31 26%
Researcher 21 18%
Student > Master 11 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 7%
Student > Bachelor 6 5%
Other 14 12%
Unknown 29 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 66 55%
Arts and Humanities 8 7%
Environmental Science 3 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 2%
Unspecified 2 2%
Other 9 8%
Unknown 30 25%
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#5,391,140
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