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Ongoing Mobility Trajectories

Lived Experiences of Global Migration

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Authors:
  1. Rosie Roberts

    1. School of Creative Industries, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

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  • Conceptualises Australia as a site within global migration pathways

  • Provides a complex analysis of rich migrant narratives

  • Expands beyond labour-centered constructions of skilled migration

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Trajectories

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Rosie Roberts
      Pages 3-27

    3. Tactics and Risk Under Conditions of Multi-stage Migration to Australia

      • Rosie Roberts
      Pages 29-47

    4. Onward Migration Pathways Over Time and Space

      • Rosie Roberts
      Pages 49-84

  3. Practices and Connections

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
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    2. Everyday Practices of Home-Making

      • Rosie Roberts
      Pages 87-109

    3. Arrivals, Departures and Returns

      • Rosie Roberts
      Pages 111-137

    4. Citizenly Identities and Translocal Belonging

      • Rosie Roberts
      Pages 139-168

  4. Stories

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
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    2. Mobility Narratives and Shifting Identities

      • Rosie Roberts
      Pages 171-193

    3. Conclusion

      • Rosie Roberts
      Pages 195-207
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Creative Industries, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

    Rosie Roberts

About the author

Rosie Roberts is a teacher and cultural researcher in the School of Creative Industries at the University of South Australia. Using processes of life storytelling and narrative inquiry, her work focuses on transnational mobilities into and out of Australia and the lived experiences of migrants as they negotiate embodied, material and imaginative forms of re-settlement and belonging. Her research also explores the ways migrants use tactics to negotiate risk under the spatial and temporal conditions of visa categories, which often produce multi-stage and ongoing migration trajectories (i.e. as people move within and between categories such as humanitarian entrant, international students, temporary labour migrant, working holiday maker and family migrant).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ongoing Mobility Trajectories

  • Book Subtitle: Lived Experiences of Global Migration

  • Authors: Rosie Roberts

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3164-0

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3163-3Published: 18 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-3164-0Published: 01 January 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 207

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Migration, Cultural Studies, Human Geography

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