Rethinking Privilege and Social Mobility in Middle-Class Migration: Migrants ‘In-Between’ (Studies in Migration and Diaspora)

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2022

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

238 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000567724

Related ISBNs:

9780367540821, 9780367535001, 9781003087588

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

03/25/22

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Shanthi Robertson and Rosie Roberts

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Sociology

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Shanthi Robertson

Edited by:

Rosie Roberts