Nesting self-employment in education, work and family trajectories of Romanian migrant returnees.

Autor/inn/en	Vlase, Ionela; Croitoru, Alin
Titel	Nesting self-employment in education, work and family trajectories of Romanian migrant returnees. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Die Einbettung der Selbstständigkeit in die Bildungs-, Arbeits- und Familienbiografien rumänischer Rückkehrer.
Quelle	In: Current sociology, 67 (2019) 5, S. 778-797 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1461-7064
DOI	10.1177/0011392119842205
Schlagwörter	Kultureinfluss; Lebensplanung; Sozialismus; Transformation; Berufliche Selbstständigkeit; Auswirkung; Habitus; Rumäne; Selbstständiger; Osteuropa; Rumänien
Abstract	"Challenging a biased view towards self-employed returnees as neoliberal selves, as the normalized approach of the migration-development nexus tends to depict them, this article builds an alternative conceptual framework to unpack the variegated experiences of migrant returnees' self-employment trajectories in post-socialist Romania. The authors argue that the overemphasis on the benefits of return migration for origin countries through the skewed focus on the migrants' accrual of human and financial capital and their ostensible entrepreneurial orientation has resulted in disregarding more influential biographical and cultural aspects. Life story interviews with middle-aged participants reveal the complex subjectivities that are co-produced by the habitus formed during communism - as children born and raised within working-class families - neoliberalism's rise during the post-socialist transition, and migration, which altered the pursuit of their life goals. The article documents three distinct self-employment pathways among the interviewed return migrants, suggesting that the subjectivities of the self-employed are not uniformly confined to neoliberal self-understandings." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2023/1