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Youth and mobility in working holidays: Imagined freedoms and lived constraints in lives of Taiwanese working holidaymakers in New Zealand
Author(s) -
Tsai Lisa Lee,
Collins Francis L.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
new zealand geographer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1745-7939
pISSN - 0028-8144
DOI - 10.1111/nzg.12149
Subject(s) - sociology , gender studies , social mobility , social capital , working poor , political science , social science , law , poverty
Mobility for work and travel is often aligned with conceptions of youth and possibilities that movement entails for cultural capital accumulation and self‐development. This article reflects on this connection by investigating the experiences of Taiwanese working holidaymakers in New Zealand. Our discussion reveals contrasting notions of youth expressed through working holidays and highlights how imaginative freedoms associated with the figure of the working holidaymaker are articulated through societal expectations, social infrastructures and temporal limits. The findings call for further research on the imbrication of working holidays with mutating notions of youth and their implications for the lived experience of mobility.