Contemporary research on children affected by migration in Southeast Asia has examined the impact of mobility on their life chances, choices and overall welfare. Extending this concern, this article seeks to address these questions in the context of privileged migration. Specifically, it asks how the mobility of children whose parents work for aid agencies in low-income countries shapes the way they understand and negotiate experiences of privilege, as well as their everyday encounters with poverty. Based on ethnographic research with young people and their families in Cambodia, the findings suggest that parents and children may envisage their international mobility as a chance for personal growth, specifically as manifest in the form of ‘open-mindedness.’ Such positive discourses are complicated, however, by a simultaneously engendered sense of superiority toward those who are less mobile. They are also intertwined with practices of ‘bracketing’ possible frictions arising from their interactions with children of local elite members. While the young people’s proximity to poverty provides opportunities for locally-based service-learning activities, connections with their parents’ work can remain abstract. The article therefore suggests that this form of international mobility may not, in itself, enable a critical engagement with poverty or with their own and others’ privilege.

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特权与贫困之间：援助工作者儿童流动性的承受能力

当代对东南亚受移民影响的儿童的研究考察了流动性对他们的生活机会、选择和整体福利的影响。扩展这一关注，本文试图在特权迁移的背景下解决这些问题。具体来说，它询问父母在低收入国家的援助机构工作的儿童的流动性如何影响他们理解和谈判特权经历的方式，以及他们日常遇到的贫困。基于对柬埔寨年轻人及其家人的人种学研究，调查结果表明，父母和孩子可能将他们的国际流动性视为个人成长的机会，特别是表现为“思想开放”的形式。然而，这种积极的话语是复杂的，同时对那些行动不便的人产生了优越感。他们还与“包容”可能因与当地精英成员的子女互动而产生摩擦的做法交织在一起。虽然年轻人接近贫困为当地的服务学习活动提供了机会，但与父母工作的联系可能仍然很抽象。因此，本文建议这种形式的国际流动本身可能无法对贫困或他们自己和他人的特权进行批判性参与。虽然年轻人接近贫困为当地的服务学习活动提供了机会，但与父母工作的联系可能仍然很抽象。因此，本文建议这种形式的国际流动本身可能无法对贫困或他们自己和他人的特权进行批判性参与。虽然年轻人接近贫困为当地的服务学习活动提供了机会，但与父母工作的联系可能仍然很抽象。因此，本文建议这种形式的国际流动本身可能无法对贫困或他们自己和他人的特权进行批判性参与。