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Migrant trailing spouses: Career adaptability and occupational downshifting
International Migration ( IF 2.022 ) Pub Date : 2021-05-08 , DOI: 10.1111/imig.12864
Vidhula Venugopal 1 , Afreen Huq 2
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This study examines career adaptability of trailing spouses whose comparative advantage most strikingly illustrates the erosion over time of career agency for migrant women, or what is known as “occupational downshifting.” Problematising occupational downshifting as a major obstacle to social integration of trailing spouses, we explore how cultural tensions play out vocationally, and the career choices available to trailing spouses become so diminished over time that their agency can be considered “bounded.” Using a life story approach, our study provides evidence of the lived experiences of constrained agency and paradox of 12 early childhood educators in Australia. Our evidence demonstrates that the choice of moving for the family not only creates occupational precarity, but a more grievous occupational downshifting. We consider strategies like vocational facilitation to address the needs of trailing spouses as individuals, and as such facilitate migrant integration and neutralise the forces leading to occupational downshifting.

中文翻译:

移民随行配偶:职业适应性和职业降档

本研究考察了随行配偶的职业适应性,其比较优势最显着地说明了移民女性职业代理随着时间的推移而受到侵蚀,即所谓的“职业降档”。将职业低调作为追随配偶社会融合的主要障碍,我们探讨了文化紧张如何在职业中发挥作用,随着时间的推移,追随配偶可用的职业选择变得如此之少,以至于他们的代理可以被认为是“有限的”。使用生活故事的方法,我们的研究提供了澳大利亚 12 名幼儿教育工作者受约束的代理和悖论的生活经验的证据。我们的证据表明,为家庭搬家不仅会造成职业不稳定,还会导致更严重的职业下滑。
更新日期:2021-05-08
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