"Corsages on Their Parents' Jackets": Employment and Aspiration among Arabic-Speaking Youth in Western Sydney

Autor/inn/en	Morgan, George; Idriss, Sherene
Titel	"Corsages on Their Parents' Jackets": Employment and Aspiration among Arabic-Speaking Youth in Western Sydney
Quelle	In: Journal of Youth Studies, 15 (2012) 7, S.929-943 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1367-6261
DOI	10.1080/13676261.2012.683405
Schlagwörter	Employment; Semitic Languages; Occupational Aspiration; Information Technology; Young Adults; Foreign Countries; Occupational Mobility; Interviews; Creativity; Family Relationship; Personal Narratives; Entrepreneurship; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Barriers; Self Concept; Ethnicity; Labor Market; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Dienstverhältnis; Arabisch; Hebräisch; Berufsneigung; Berufsziel; Informationstechnologie; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Ausland; Berufliche Mobilität; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Kreativität; Erlebniserzählung; Unternehmungsgeist; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Selbstkonzept; Ethnizität; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Australien
Abstract	Many commentators have observed that late modernity has profoundly reshaped the nature of employment such that workers have become more reflexive, mobile, individualistic and entrepreneurial, free to re-invent themselves as they choose in a world of endless possibilities. Theorists of reflexive modernity suggest that the family unit and class have been usurped by an inherent individual mobility. This article challenges this discourse of the new economy arguing instead that young people (Gen Y as market researchers would call them) are not as free as these proponents of the new individualism would have us believe. This article is based on interviews with young people from Western Sydney of Arabic-speaking backgrounds. It considers the way they form ambitions to work in "creative industries" and their struggles to account for, and explain these ambitions to members of their families/communities. It illustrates the ways biographical narratives exemplify struggles to pursue aspirations in the face of class/ethnic positioning and intergenerational misunderstanding. (Contains 4 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10