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Mobile corridors: Unpacking the global voyages of labour and leisure.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mobile corridors: Unpacking the global voyages of labour and leisure./
Author:	Gogia, Nupur.
Description:	336 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-06, Section: A, page: 2460.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-06A.
Subject:	Economics, Labor. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoeng/servlet/advanced?query=NR39662
ISBN:	9780494396629

Mobile corridors: Unpacking the global voyages of labour and leisure.
Gogia, Nupur.

Mobile corridors: Unpacking the global voyages of labour and leisure. - 336 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-06, Section: A, page: 2460.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2007.

As many disciplines grapple with the complexities of movement that characterize our world today, scholars are considering concepts of mobility and their interconnectedness in new ways. Although not a recent phenomenon, the conditions of globalization have facilitated a record number of people crossing international borders for work, leisure, safety and security. Among these groups, tourists and labour migrants account for the largest groups traveling worldwide. Although these two groups differ in their motivations and goals of travel, they share at least one common condition, the ability, to varying degrees, to be mobile.

ISBN: 9780494396629Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019135
Economics, Labor.

Mobile corridors: Unpacking the global voyages of labour and leisure.
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520 $a In this thesis I juxtapose two types of seasonal movements in order to examine the interconnections between mobility, space and identity. I examine mobility on two trajectories and in two sites: First, I ask whether contemporary forms of seasonal mobility create new transnational spaces. My second question is how seasonal mobilities contribute to the formation of subjectivities. Two groups of mobile populations form the focus of this study---seasonal tourists in Mexico and seasonal agricultural workers in Canada.
520 $a A spatial ethnographic method developed for this project is utilized to map the changes occurring, while a combination of spatial and subjectivity theories provide the lens through which I analyze how our mobilities are increasingly defining who we are and where we go. Despite the rhetoric of increasing equality and access to travel, I show that mobility is neither an egalitarian experience nor a homogenous category organizing social relations. Race, citizenship, class and gender continue to shape the facility or difficulty in crossing borders and the reception received in destination countries. In addition, the ways in which these mobilities are "hailed," whether as tourists or as migrant workers, condition living and working arrangements, creating almost unparalleled liberties for one group and severely restricted controls for the other. The changing topographies of place is the second focus. The rural spaces that each of these seasonal groups resides in are undergoing major changes. From lattes and gated communities in Puerto to chipotles and school bus Fridays in Simcoe, seasonal tourists and seasonal migrant workers are creating new cultural forms and producing novel social relations that reflect their different levels of integration in the two communities.
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