Commoditization of Lifestyle Migration: Japanese Retirees in Malaysia
Commoditization of Lifestyle Migration: Japanese Retirees in Malaysia
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DOI：
10.1080/17450101.2014.913868
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发表时间：
2015-08
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影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Mayumi Ono
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作者：
Mayumi Ono
摘要本文旨在探讨个人选择所产生的流动性与推动生活方式迁移的市场因素之间的关系。日本老年人在亚洲各地的跨国流动被认为是亚洲国际退休移民的新兴案例之一，这是一个总体上相对较新的现象。本文以日本人向马来西亚的国际退休移民为例，通过考察生活方式迁移的社会文化层面，认为生活方式迁移作为一种消费形式，导致了对日本退休人员具有特定文化意义的自我实现。通过将旅游和移民联系起来，本文提出流动性市场是跨国人口流动的中介，并认为日本国际退休移民的商品化反映了日本作为一个老龄化社会的社会经济和社会文化方面。民族志数据和媒体话语分析一起展示了自我实现的期望是如何通过宣传马来西亚作为日本国际退休移民的目的地国家以及他们对退休生活方式的特定文化理解来实现的。
Abstract This paper aims to explore the relationship between mobilities created from individual choices and the market factors driving lifestyle migration. The transnational mobility of elderly Japanese throughout Asia is considered one of the emerging cases of international retirement migration in Asia, an overall relatively new phenomenon. Through examining the sociocultural aspects of lifestyle migration in the case of Japanese international retirement migration to Malaysia, this paper argues that lifestyle migration, as a form of consumption, results in self-realization that has a culturally specific meaning for Japanese retirees. By linking tourism and migration, this paper proposes that the mobilities market serves as a mediator of transnational human mobilities and argues that the commoditization of Japanese international retirement migration reflects on both the socioeconomic and sociocultural aspects of Japan as an aging society. Ethnographic data, alongside media discourse analysis, demonstrates how the expectation of self-realization is mediated through the promotion of Malaysia as a destination country of Japanese international retirement migration and their culturally specific understandings of retirement lifestyle.