研究所、轉學考(插大)、學士後-英文題庫下載題庫

    A prevailing phenomenon in the era of globalization is that many individuals develop a flexible notion of citizenship as strategies to accumulate capital and power. Many scholars identify the phenomenon as “flexible citizenship,” which refers to the cultural logics of capitalist accumulation, transnational travel, and displacement that induce people to respond fluidly and opportunistically to political, economic and social changes. In their quest to accumulate capital and prestige in the global arena, these transnational subjects stress, and are regulated by, practices favoring flexibility, mobility, and repositioning in relation to markets, governments and cultural regimes. These logics and practices are produced within particular structures of meaning about family, gender, nationality, class mobility, and social power.

   Flexibility and mobility enable the transnational subjects to construct a new mode of identity across political borders. To illustrate, transnational subjects include figures such as multicultural professionals, multiple-passport holders, the “astronauts” shuttling across borders on business, or “parachute kids” dropped off by parents on the trans-Pacific business commute. The individuals who are able to benefit from their participation in global capitalism mostly celebrate flexibility and mobility. Today, as mobility and flexibility form an integral part of human behavioral patterns, the new connections between flexibility and the logics of displacement, on the one hand, and capital accumulation, on the other, have given new valence to the strategies of maneuvering and positioning. Flexibility, migration and relocation, instead of being coerced or resisted, have become fashionable practices.