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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"By drawing on interviews and case studies, Robertson grounds her theoretical and empirical material in lived experience." - Inside Story

Winner, Raewyn Connell Prize for the Best First Book in Australian Sociology, awarded by The Australian Sociology Association.

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University of Western Sydney, Australia

Shanthi Robertson

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Shanthi Robertson is Research Fellow at the Institute of Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. She was previously a Lecturer in Global Studies at RMIT University, Australia. Her research interests include emerging forms of temporary migration, urban dimensions of migration, citizenship, and migrant rights.

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Book Title: Transnational Student-Migrants and the State
Book Subtitle: The Education-Migration Nexus
Authors: Shanthi Robertson
Series Title: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137267085
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-26707-8Published: 11 April 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-44327-7Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-26708-5Published: 11 April 2013
Series ISSN: 2662-2602
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2610
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 202
Topics: Higher Education, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Social Policy, Migration, Education Policy

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