Rethinking Privilege and Social Mobility in Middle-Class Migration: Migrants In-Between

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor's Preface -- Note -- 1. Migrants 'in-between': Rethinking privilege and social mobility in middle-class migration -- Introduction -- Rethinking middling migration through a lens of privilege -- Attuning to multiple mobilities and shifting articulations of race -- Centring biographical temporalities: Life stage and life course -- Conclusion -- References -- 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 -- Introduction -- Australian selective migration policies and intra-ethnic class positions during a Western Australian resources boom -- Quality" and mobility in PRC national class frames -- Classed frustrations and inter-ethnic class contestations in Perth -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3. Shifting privileges: An ethnographic study of White and upper-class Colombian migrant women living in Melbourne, Australia -- Introduction -- A conceptual approach: Intersectionality, privilege and transnational migration -- Methodology -- Context -- Colombian migrants in Australia -- Transnational social positions across Colombia and Australia -- Narratives of relatively privileged ethnic migrant women -- Teresa -- Gabriela -- Discussion -- Notes -- References -- 4. Mobile lives in search of place: Homelessness and frustrated mobility among young Romanians in Madrid -- Introduction -- To be of the middle and on the move: Young homeless in the city -- Middling forms of frustrated mobility in homeless studies -- Middle-class young homeless Romanians in Madrid -- Methodology -- Young homeless frustration: Between acceptance and defiance.

"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 strategizing 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 strategizing 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"--