Lives in limbo: Migration experiences in Australia’s education–migration nexus

Robertson, Shanthi; Runganaikaloo, Anjena

doi:10.1177/1468796813504552

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“…Pathways from temporariness to permanence are, as seminal work by one of this SpeciaI Issue's authors has shown, seldom explicit or guaranteed, leading to 'long term temporariness' and ongoing insecurity (Mares 2016). The insecurities associated with 'staggered pathways' are manifold, ranging from increased vulnerability to exploitation by employers (Boese et al 2013) to the frequent need for temporary visa holders to adjust their life and education goals (Robertson and Runganaikaloo 2014). Recent research on these experiences has called into question the common assumption of temporary migrants as a category of migrants in control of their migration pathway (Boese and Macdonald 2016).…”

Section: Temporary Migrants In Australiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction: Place, Politics and the Social: Understanding Temporariness in Contemporary Australian Migration

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Section: Temporary Migrants In Australiamentioning

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Introduction: Place, Politics and the Social: Understanding Temporariness in Contemporary Australian Migration

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Robertson²

2017

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“…Offering one of the most liberal point-based policies between 1998 and 2010 meant that many former students could apply for permanent residency, turning into skilled migrants while remaining onshore (Robertson and Runganaikaloo, 2014: 3). By the early 2000s, a substantial proportion of economic migrants held Australian university qualifications, while key research showed that PR status was not only an important outcome, but also a key motivation for many international students in Australian institutions (see, e.g., Baas, 2006;Robertson and Runganaikaloo, 2014). (close to £1bn), 43% of their revenue since the peak of 2009, while the university sector experienced a 5% loss since its peak in 2010.…”

Section: The Education and Migration Linkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(close to £1bn), 43% of their revenue since the peak of 2009, while the university sector experienced a 5% loss since its peak in 2010. The decline was related to a much more expensive Australian dollar (Marginson, 2015: 3) the racially motivated attacks on overseas students in 2009ix, as well as to the unsuccessful integration of former students into the labour market, particularly among graduates of vocational training institutes (see, e.g., Birrell, 2006;Robertson and Runganaikaloo, 2014). In response to the rising demand for courses that would generate PR status, many registered training organizations began to offer affordable and low-quality courses, mainly in the vocational fields on government 'on-demand' lists (Robertson and Runganaikaloo, 2014: 3).…”

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Escaping India’s culture of education: Migration desires among aspiring middle-class young men

Sancho

2017

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Escaping India's culture of education: Migration desires among aspiring middle-class young menThis paper discusses the relationship between student migration and processes of class formation in the southern Indian state of Kerala, with a particular focus on a group of young men from middle-class backgrounds who desire to migrate to Australia as students. It brings back to life data gathered between 2009 and 2010, the heyday of student migration from India to Australia. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork conducted at a recruitment agency that specializes in sending students to Australia, the article is primarily aimed at deepening our understanding of the motives of young men for seeking to migrate as overseas students within the context of their middle-class lives in India.Current research on Indian overseas student migration to Australia has rightly shown that there is an intricate relation between class formation and migration processes (see, e.g., Baas, 2010b). Yet most of this work has tended to focus on the experiences of students already abroad. Research on the link between the formulation of migration-decisions and class dynamics from the perspective of the sending side that sheds light on how young people's decisions to migrate are produced in complex ways, in relation to individual/familial strategies of mobility and ideas of self-realisation, exploration and development, has been slow to emerge. Osella and Gardner (2003: vi) describe as a 'northern bias' still shaping much research on migration. This refers to the preferential focus on the 'receiving places', the English-speaking north in particular, where diasporic communities and This gap arguably reflects what

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“…Research on tempo-rary migrants has in contrast mostly focused on the impacts of (partial) legal or formal belonging through visa regulations. This has involved analyses of the impacts of insecure pathways to permanent residency (Mares 2016;Boese and MacDonald 2016;Robertson and Runganaikaloo 2014), precarious employment experiences (Boese, et al 2013;Velayutham 2013) and limited access to social welfare provisions (O'Brien and Phillips 2015). One of the few studies of place-based belonging of temporary migrants in Australia has investigated how the use of public and private spaces in central Melbourne affected international students' sense of belonging (Fincher and Shaw 2011).…”

Section: Temporary Migrants and Feelings Of Belonging In Regional Ausmentioning

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‘Half of Myself Belongs to this Town’: Conditional Belongings of Temporary Migrants in Regional Australia

Boese¹,

Phillips²

2017

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A growing number of temporary visa holders reside in regional Australia, from skilled temporary visa holders to international students at regional university campuses and Working Holiday visa holders. Many of these residents spend prolonged periods of time in regional locations, often alongside groups with other migration and refugee backgrounds, and many hold permanent residency aspirations. This paper contributes to recent scholarship on affective citizenship and place-based belonging through an investigation of the social, cultural and legal dimensions of temporary migrants’ sense of belonging in regional communities. Our analysis of qualitative interviews with regional residents on different temporary visas and local employers and service providers shows that many temporary residents in regional locations develop a feeling of place-based belonging grounded in social relations and shared cultural affiliations as well as the efforts of local stakeholders who are keen to retain migrants in the location. Yet the rights restrictions associated with temporary visas tend to diminish such feelings of belonging and further exacerbate feelings of tenuous belonging for those migrants who are lacking place-based social or cultural connections. We conclude that the multidimensional nature of belonging deserves more attention in the current context of policies that are on the one hand promoting the regional settlement of temporary migrants, whilst on the other hand excluding these migrants from most social rights granted to other taxpayers.

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Lives in limbo: Migration experiences in Australia’s education–migration nexus

Cited by 99 publications

References 27 publications

Introduction: Place, Politics and the Social: Understanding Temporariness in Contemporary Australian Migration

Introduction: Place, Politics and the Social: Understanding Temporariness in Contemporary Australian Migration

Escaping India’s culture of education: Migration desires among aspiring middle-class young men

‘Half of Myself Belongs to this Town’: Conditional Belongings of Temporary Migrants in Regional Australia

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