Yemini, M;
Maxwell, C;
Mizrahi, M;
(2019)
How does mobility shape parental strategies–a case of the Israeli global middle class and their ‘immobile’ peers in Tel Aviv.
Globalisation, Societies and Education
, 17
(3)
pp. 324-338.
10.1080/14767724.2018.1525280.
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Abstract
We examined the parental strategies of global middle class (GMC) parents currently living in Israel, and compared these to their local middle class (LMC) peers. Both groups of parents were focused on securing advantages for their children through education choices and practices of cultivation. The central difference between these two groups of middle class parents was the ways in which ‘mobile-mindedness’ was conceived of, and in turn shaped the future aspirations they held for their children. A second critical finding was that this group of GMC actively fostered strong relations to belonging to their ‘home’ nation, challenging the suggestion of rootless nomads found in the literature. We argue that the GMCs in our sample think locally in each place they settle in order to secure the educational advantage, but act globally with respect to their children’s prospective futures. Meanwhile, the LMCs think globally in terms of cultivating forms of capital to secure advantages for their children, but do so with a locally-informed frame of reference for their imagined futures. These conceptual insights into the lived narratives of the GMC have implications for the ways we come to understand this emerging middle class fraction, and should shape further research in this area.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | How does mobility shape parental strategies–a case of the Israeli global middle class and their ‘immobile’ peers in Tel Aviv |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14767724.2018.1525280 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2018.1525280 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Global middle class, parental educational strategies, Tel Aviv, mobility, belonging |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10062062 |
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