2018 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Moratorium migration in contemporary post-growth Japan: Lifestyle volunteers between insecurity and fulfillment
Project/Area Number |
16K03212
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Research Institution | Hokkaido University |
Principal Investigator |
KLIEN SUSANNE 北海道大学, メディア・コミュニケーション研究院, 准教授 (20725048)
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Project Period (FY) |
2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
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Keywords | Lifestyle migration / precarity / aspiration / moratorium / volunteer / work-life-balance / ethnography |
Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
My extended ethnographic research across Japan over the past three years has shown that individuals aspire to new ways of living and working, but are caught up in multiple postwar values such as self-exhausting work styles, full-time dedication to (self-created) work and hence little time with the family. In the majority of interviewees, considerable pressure to carve out a livelihood means that individuals actually enjoy less work-life-balance than in their previous corporate careers. Furthermore, a fluid line between volunteer activities, work and leisure contributes to self-attrition and self-exhaustion. Numerous urban migrants in rural areas try to cope with this uncertain and precarious situation by hedging their bets and engage in a variety of professional activities.
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Research Products
(5 results)