1st Edition
Rethinking Privilege and Social Mobility in Middle-Class Migration Migrants ‘In-Between’
1. Migrants ‘In-Between’: Rethinking Privilege and Social Mobility in Middle-Class Migration
Shanthi Robertson and Rosie Roberts
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
Catriona Stevens
3. Shifting Privileges: An Ethnographic Study of White and Upper-Class Colombian Migrant Women Living in Melbourne, Australia
Viktoria Adler
4. Mobile Lives in Search of Place: Homelessness and Frustrated Mobility Among Young Romanians in Madrid
Silvia Marcu
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
Nonie Tuxen
6. Migrant Entrepreneurs and Urban Cultural Economy in Sydney, The ‘City of Villages’: Haymarket’s ‘Chinatown’ and Leichhardt’s ‘Little Italy’
Andrea Del Bono
7. The View of Lifestyle Migration: A Brief Exploration of the Ethics of Seeking a Better Way of Life
Nick Osbaldiston
8. Navigating Everyday Life in a Middle-Class Neighbourhood: The Ongoing Negotiations of Japanese Women Migrants in Southeast London
Kaoru Takahashi
Part III: Relational Dynamics: Middleclass Migrant Families and Couples
9. ‘Moving Privilege’: Middling Transnational Couples and the Relational Dimensions of Privilege
Rosie Roberts and Shanthi Robertson
10. Mothers in the Middle: Rethinking Middling Migration as Relational
Leah Williams Veazey
11. Mainland Chinese Grandparenting Migration as Middling Transnationalism: Family, Life Stage and Lifecourse
Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho and Tuen Yi Chiu
Biography
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.
