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 strategising 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.
| ISBN: | 9780367540821 |
| Publication date: | 25th September 2023 |
| Author: | Shanthi Robertson, Rosie Roberts |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 238 pages |
| Series: | Studies in Migration and Diaspora |
| Genres: |
Sociology Migration, immigration and emigration Social classes Ethnic studies Colonialism and imperialism International relations |
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 strategising 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.
Rethinking Privilege and Social Mobility in Middle-Class Migration features in the following genres: Sociology, Migration, immigration and emigration, Social classes, Ethnic studies, Colonialism and imperialism, International relations
Rethinking Privilege and Social Mobility in Middle-Class Migration is available in Paperback
Rethinking Privilege and Social Mobility in Middle-Class Migration was written by Shanthi Robertson, Rosie Roberts and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Rethinking Privilege and Social Mobility in Middle-Class Migration has 238 pages
Yes it is part of Studies in Migration and Diaspora series
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