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 books 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 or middling migrant groups across the globe, asking how relatively privileged migrant groups negotiate their life trajectories and aspirations while on the move and how they potentially transform the communities and societies that they move both from and to.
1. Migrants In-Between: Rethinking Privilege and Social Mobility in
Middle-Class Migration Part I: Relocating Class: Reconfigurations of Class
Through Migration
2. The Classed Frustrations of Middling Migrants from China
in Australia: Suzhi Discourse Meets the Neoliberal Logics of Selective
Migration Policies
3. Shifting Privileges: An Ethnographic Study of White and
Upper-Class Colombian Migrant Women Living in Melbourne, Australia
4. Mobile
Lives in Search of Place: Homelessness and Frustrated Mobility Among Young
Romanians in Madrid Part II: Place, Taste and Aspiration: Local Geographies
and Middleclass Imaginaries
5. Suburban Strivers and the South Bombay Elite:
How Localised Micro-Categories of Class Shape International Education in
Mumbai
6. Migrant Entrepreneurs and Urban Cultural Economy in Sydney, The
City of Villages: Haymarkets Chinatown and Leichhardts Little Italy
7. The View of Lifestyle Migration: A Brief Exploration of the Ethics of
Seeking a Better Way of Life
8. Navigating Everyday Life in a Middle-Class
Neighbourhood: The Ongoing Negotiations of Japanese Women Migrants in
Southeast London Part III: Relational Dynamics: Middleclass Migrant Families
and Couples
9. Moving Privilege: Middling Transnational Couples and the
Relational Dimensions of Privilege
10. Mothers in the Middle: Rethinking
Middling Migration as Relational
11. Mainland Chinese Grandparenting
Migration as Middling Transnationalism: Family, Life Stage and Lifecourse
Shanthi Robertson is an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts and Research Fellow in the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, Australia. She is the author of Transnational Student-Migrants and the State: The Education-Migration Nexus and Temporality in Mobile Lives: Contemporary Asia-Australia Migration and Lived Time
Rosie Roberts is a Senior Lecturer within UniSA Creative and a researcher at the Creative People, Products and Places Research Centre (CP3) at the University of South Australia. She is the author of Ongoing Mobility Trajectories: Lived Experiences of Global Migration.
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