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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.
Shanthi Robertson provides fresh perspectives on 21st-century
migratory experiences in this innovative study of young Asian
migrants' lives in Australia. Exploring the aspirations and
realities of transnational mobility, the book shows how migration
has reshaped lived experiences of time for middle-class young
people moving between Asia and the West for work, study and
lifestyle opportunities. Through a new conceptual framework of
'chronomobilities,' which looks at 'time-regimes' and
'time-logics', Robertson demonstrates how migratory pathways have
become far more complex than leaving one country for another, and
can profoundly affect the temporalities of everyday life, from
career pathways to intimate relationships. Drawing on extensive
ethnographic material, Robertson deepens our understanding of the
multifaceted relationship between migration and time.
Shanthi Robertson provides fresh perspectives on 21st-century
migratory experiences in this innovative study of young Asian
migrants' lives in Australia. Exploring the aspirations and
realities of transnational mobility, the book shows how migration
has reshaped lived experiences of time for middle-class young
people moving between Asia and the West for work, study and
lifestyle opportunities. Through a new conceptual framework of
'chronomobilities,' which looks at 'time-regimes' and
'time-logics', Robertson demonstrates how migratory pathways have
become far more complex than leaving one country for another, and
can profoundly affect the temporalities of everyday life, from
career pathways to intimate relationships. Drawing on extensive
ethnographic material, Robertson deepens our understanding of the
multifaceted relationship between migration and time.
The boundaries around the categories of student, migrant and worker
have become increasingly fuzzy, as international students are often
engaged not just in education, but in high stakes and expensive
journeys towards gaining permanent migration status. This book
unpacks the social and political consequences of this
education-migration nexus, the uneasy intersection between
international education and skilled migration policies that has
developed in many Western migrant receiving nations. The book shows
how the nexus has given rise to a new and unique form of
transnational migrant: the student-migrant.The book examines
student-migrants in terms of their transnationalism and in terms of
their relationship to the state, and provides a detailed overview
of policy development in concert with an analysis of
student-migrant lived experience. In doing so, it paints a vivid
picture of how the macro-politics of state policy intersect with
the micro-politics of migrants' transnational social practices.
International students are often engaged not just in education, but
in high stakes towards gaining permanent migration status. This
book unpacks the consequences of this education-migration nexus,
analyzing migration policies and providing a vivid picture of
student-migrants' lived experiences.
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