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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Georgios Kesisoglou
• Lia Figgou
• Maria Dikaiou

Titel

"Narratives of flight": Accounts of precarious employment relations and emigration from Greece. A critical discursive social-psychological perspective

Ist Teil von

• International journal of employment studies, 2016-01, Vol.24 (2), p.73-90

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

EBSCOhost Business Source Ultimate

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Recent survey data attest that young professionals and graduates massively opt to emigrate from crisis-ridden Greece. Drawing on interview data by young professionals (18-26 years old), in urban centres of Greece, this study attempts to explore the discursive practices which informants mobilise to account for the prospect of migrating abroad, as well as the constructions of agency and subjectivity within these ways of accounting. Analysis drawing on insights from critical discursive social psychology indicates that participants articulate a 'narrative of personal effort': a) by characterising and evaluating through metaphors of the Greek labour and migration regime as context; b) by asserting their effort and agency, tracing their mobility to their psychological properties; while c) accounting for the ambivalence of 'fight or flight'. Analysis also points out how participants orient themselves to a dilemma of stake and accountability, being concerned to position themselves as effortful and entrepreneurial subjects, opting to emigrate.