How does mobility shape parental strategies: a case of the Israeli global middle class and their 'immobile' peers in Tel Aviv
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How does mobility shape parental strategies : a case of the Israeli global middle class and their 'immobile' peers in Tel Aviv. / Yemini, Miri; Maxwell, Claire; Mizrachi, Ma'ayan.
I: Globalisation, Societies and Education, Bind 17, Nr. 3, 27.05.2019, s. 324-338.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - How does mobility shape parental strategies
T2 - a case of the Israeli global middle class and their 'immobile' peers in Tel Aviv
AU - Yemini, Miri
AU - Maxwell, Claire
AU - Mizrachi, Ma'ayan
PY - 2019/5/27
Y1 - 2019/5/27
N2 - We examined the parental strategies of global middle class (GMC) parents currently living in Israel, and compared these to their local middle class (LMC) peers. Both groups of parents were focused on securing advantages for their children through education choices and practices of cultivation. The central difference between these two groups of middle class parents was the ways in which ‘mobile-mindedness’ was conceived of, and in turn shaped the future aspirations they held for their children. A second critical finding was that this group of GMC actively fostered strong relations to belonging to their ‘home’ nation, challenging the suggestion of rootless nomads found in the literature. We argue that the GMCs in our sample think locally in each place they settle in order to secure the educational advantage, but act globally with respect to their children’s prospective futures. Meanwhile, the LMCs think globally in terms of cultivating forms of capital to secure advantages for their children, but do so with a locally-informed frame of reference for their imagined futures. These conceptual insights into the lived narratives of the GMC have implications for the ways we come to understand this emerging middle class fraction, and should shape further research in this area.
AB - We examined the parental strategies of global middle class (GMC) parents currently living in Israel, and compared these to their local middle class (LMC) peers. Both groups of parents were focused on securing advantages for their children through education choices and practices of cultivation. The central difference between these two groups of middle class parents was the ways in which ‘mobile-mindedness’ was conceived of, and in turn shaped the future aspirations they held for their children. A second critical finding was that this group of GMC actively fostered strong relations to belonging to their ‘home’ nation, challenging the suggestion of rootless nomads found in the literature. We argue that the GMCs in our sample think locally in each place they settle in order to secure the educational advantage, but act globally with respect to their children’s prospective futures. Meanwhile, the LMCs think globally in terms of cultivating forms of capital to secure advantages for their children, but do so with a locally-informed frame of reference for their imagined futures. These conceptual insights into the lived narratives of the GMC have implications for the ways we come to understand this emerging middle class fraction, and should shape further research in this area.
KW - Global middle class
KW - parental educational strategies
KW - Tel Aviv
KW - mobility
KW - belonging
U2 - 10.1080/14767724.2018.1525280
DO - 10.1080/14767724.2018.1525280
M3 - Journal article
VL - 17
SP - 324
EP - 338
JO - Globalisation, Societies and Education
JF - Globalisation, Societies and Education
SN - 1476-7724
IS - 3
ER -
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