Rhythmic Island: Latvian Migrants in Guernsey and their Enfolded Patterns of Space‐Time Mobility
Rhythmic Island: Latvian Migrants in Guernsey and their Enfolded Patterns of Space‐Time Mobility
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节奏岛：根西岛的拉脱维亚移民及其复杂的时空流动模式
DOI：
10.1002/psp.1915
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Aija Lulle
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作者：
Russell King;Aija Lulle
探亲访友(VFR)不是一项边缘活动，而是移民体验的一个基本部分。我们通过对拉脱维亚劳动力迁移到根西岛的深入研究来说明这一论断。自20世纪90年代以来，苏联解体后的拉脱维亚的低收入和高失业率，加上根西岛特定于小众市场的劳动力需求，造成了主要是女性工人的移民流动。这种循环迁移系统的小规模性质允许对移民和VFR之间的许多联系进行更深层次的理论推导。特别是，我们运用时间-地理学和节奏分析来探索移民和VFR相互联系的各种方式，在主角的生命过程中，在临时劳动力迁移的资本主义节奏中。经验证据来自对根西岛90名拉脱维亚移民和16名雇主的采访。VFR迁移率是同时存在的时空事件，可以发生在拉脱维亚或根西岛。两个方向的访问都可能涉及旅游功能，而前往根西岛的VFR也有可能刺激进一步的移民。进一步的研究可以更多地关注性别问题和永久回返移民到拉脱维亚的前景。
Rather than a marginal activity, visiting friends and relatives (VFR) is a fundamental part of the migrant experience. We illustrate this assertion by an in-depth study of Latvian labour migration to Guernsey. Since the 1990s, low incomes and high unemployment in post-Soviet Latvia combine with niche-specific labour demands in Guernsey to create migratory flows of mainly female workers. The small-scale nature of this circular migration system allows a deeper theorisation of the many linkages between migration and VFR. In particular we deploy time-geography and rhythmanalysis to explore the various ways that migration and VFR are enfolded within each other, within the life-courses of the protagonists, and within the capitalist rhythms of temporary labour migration. Empirical evidence comes from interviews with 90 Latvian migrants in Guernsey and with 16 employers. VFR mobilities are space-time events of co-presence which can take place either in Latvia or in Guernsey. Both directions of visits can involve touristic functions, and VFR to Guernsey can also carry the potential to stimulate further migration. Further research could pay more attention to gender aspects and to prospects for permanent return migration to Latvia.