TY - JOUR
T1 - Hope and Uncertainty at the Periphery in Global Times
T2 - youth employment in kinmen, Taiwan
AU - Yang, Chin-Yi
AU - Koo, Anita
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023/4
Y1 - 2023/4
N2 - Kinmen, located in Taiwan’s remote border area, has become increasingly embedded in the global economy by opening its border for trade and tourism with China. Previous rural youth studies mainly focus on decisions and experiences of migration while neglecting the experiences of those who stay in their hometown. This paper aims to fill this gap by investigating the experiences and subjectivities of young people who stay in the periphery for adulthood transitions. Based on our ethnographic data gathered in Kinmen, it shows how the enlarged employment with the new markets supported by Chinese tourists bring hope for the youth. At the same time, our findings explore how the highly dependent tourism economy and the overdependence on a single source of tourists bring them worry and uncertainty. Analyses of the paper highlight spatial elements in the economic, cultural and political processes of structuring young people’s lives and subjectivities under globalization.
AB - Kinmen, located in Taiwan’s remote border area, has become increasingly embedded in the global economy by opening its border for trade and tourism with China. Previous rural youth studies mainly focus on decisions and experiences of migration while neglecting the experiences of those who stay in their hometown. This paper aims to fill this gap by investigating the experiences and subjectivities of young people who stay in the periphery for adulthood transitions. Based on our ethnographic data gathered in Kinmen, it shows how the enlarged employment with the new markets supported by Chinese tourists bring hope for the youth. At the same time, our findings explore how the highly dependent tourism economy and the overdependence on a single source of tourists bring them worry and uncertainty. Analyses of the paper highlight spatial elements in the economic, cultural and political processes of structuring young people’s lives and subjectivities under globalization.
KW - globalization
KW - periphery
KW - transnational capitalism
KW - Youth employment
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U2 - 10.1080/13676261.2021.2022108
DO - 10.1080/13676261.2021.2022108
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1367-6261
VL - 26
SP - 522
EP - 537
JO - Journal of Youth Studies
JF - Journal of Youth Studies
IS - 4
ER -