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This volume explores the experiences of a wide variety of
middle-class migrant groups across the globe, including ‘ethnic
entrepreneurs’ building new businesses in cosmopolitan
neighbourhoods in Sydney; Chinese grandparents shuttling between
Australia, China and Singapore to support their extended families;
well-off young Indians in Mumbai strategising their future
education pathways overseas; and Japanese mothers finding ways to
belong in a London middle-class neighbourhood. This book asks how
relatively privileged migrant groups negotiate their life
trajectories, relationships and aspirations while ‘on the move’
and how they transform the communities and societies that they move
between across time and space. The book’s chapters consider
motives for migration, as well as experiences of risk, uncertainty
and insecurity in diverse local contexts. A fresh look at the
migration of those who possess skills and resources that can bring
about significant economic, social and cultural change, this book
engages critically with the notions of ‘middling’ migration,
social mobility and mobile privilege in the global context of
hardening borders and immigration complexity. It will appeal to
scholars with interests in contemporary forms of migration and
mobility and their local and transnational consequences.
This volume explores the experiences of a wide variety of
middle-class migrant groups across the globe, including 'ethnic
entrepreneurs' building new businesses in cosmopolitan
neighbourhoods in Sydney; Chinese grandparents shuttling between
Australia, China and Singapore to support their extended families;
well-off young Indians in Mumbai strategising their future
education pathways overseas; and Japanese mothers finding ways to
belong in a London middle-class neighbourhood. This book asks how
relatively privileged migrant groups negotiate their life
trajectories, relationships and aspirations while 'on the move' and
how they transform the communities and societies that they move
between across time and space. The book's chapters consider motives
for migration, as well as experiences of risk, uncertainty and
insecurity in diverse local contexts. A fresh look at the migration
of those who possess skills and resources that can bring about
significant economic, social and cultural change, this book engages
critically with the notions of 'middling' migration, social
mobility and mobile privilege in the global context of hardening
borders and immigration complexity. It will appeal to scholars with
interests in contemporary forms of migration and mobility and their
local and transnational consequences.
This book explores the complex category of the 'skilled migrant,'
drawing on multi-sited narrative interviews with migrants who have
all lived in Australia at some point in their lives (as an origin
and/or destination). Developing the more nuanced concept of the
'mobile settler', it shows how becoming a skilled migrant is not
just a political and economic determination of knowledge and human
capital but a complex negotiation of contexts - immigration
contexts, social locations, qualifications and skills, as well as
personal ties. Belying the simple binaries of official visa
categories, these diverse contexts of migrant experience are
central to the ways migrants construct their personal histories and
negotiate their shifting attachments to home and belonging over
time and space. By highlighting how migrants imagine their own
complex social, cultural, national, professional and linguistic
identities and pathways, this book extends the agent-centred
approaches to global mobility and transnationalism that have
emerged in cultural studies and social and cultural geography in
recent years, according greater recognition to the individualised,
local and lived experiences of global migration and thus engaging
more deeply with global concerns about increased mobility and the
challenges it represents.
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