Ongoing Mobility Trajectories

Conceptualises Australia as a site within global migration pathwaysProvides a complex analysis of rich migrant narrativesExpands beyond labour-centred constructions of skilled migration

Conceptualises Australia as a site within global migration pathways Provides a complex analysis of rich migrant narratives Expands beyond labour-centered constructions of skilled migration

Autorentext
Rosie Roberts is a teacher and cultural researcher in the School of Creative Industries at the University of South Australia. Using processes of life storytelling and narrative inquiry, her work focuses on transnational mobilities into and out of Australia and the lived experiences of migrants as they negotiate embodied, material and imaginative forms of re-settlement and belonging. Her research also explores the ways migrants use tactics to negotiate risk under the spatial and temporal conditions of visa categories, which often produce multi-stage and ongoing migration trajectories (i.e. as people move within and between categories such as humanitarian entrant, international students, temporary labour migrant, working holiday maker and family migrant).

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The accidental migrant: mapping the pathways of skilled mobile settlers.- Chapter 3: Mobilising knowledge.- Chapter 4: Arrivals, departures,homecomings and homelessness.- Chapter 5: Memories and materialities.- Chapter 6: Citizenly identities and translocal belongings.- Chapter 7: Negotiating identities through migrant storytelling.- Chapter 8: Conclusion.