Aspirational Migration: The Case of Chinese Birth Tourism in the U.S.

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dc.contributor.advisorOtis, Eileen
dc.contributor.authorFolse, Brandon
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-06T21:54:43Z
dc.date.available2017-09-06T21:54:43Z
dc.date.issued2017-09-06
dc.description.abstractThe ways in which individuals navigate the globe today complicates previous conceptualizations of migration and mobility. Once such mode of contemporary movement which challenges scholars is known as "birth tourism." This research considers birth tourism to be a form of "lifestyle migration," which I label aspirational migration. By analyzing the motivations which drive many parents to give birth abroad, I shed light on the complex and risky process, which involves a host of players, including family, friends, and a global birth tourism infrastructure. Through this drawn-out process, which begins well before the decision to give birth abroad and continues into the distant future, I argue that birth tourists and their foreign-born children become aspirational migrants and acquire cosmopolitan capital.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/22749
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectBirth tourismen_US
dc.subjectChinaen_US
dc.subjectCitizenshipen_US
dc.subjectCosmopolitanismen_US
dc.subjectImmigrationen_US
dc.subjectMigrationen_US
dc.titleAspirational Migration: The Case of Chinese Birth Tourism in the U.S.
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineInterdisciplinary Studies Program: Asian Studies
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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