Unfolding stories of skilled migrants
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2011
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Roberts, R.
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Social Alternatives, 2011; 30(2):35-39
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Using people’s stories in this paper I explore the relocation pathways of a small group of highly educated, skilled and mobile professionals who have various links to Australia within their relocation histories (either as a destination or point of departure). Positioning Australia as both a receiving and sending country places it within the politics of global mobility practices. Empirical research on human mobility often focuses on a community of people defined by their nationality who relocate to a particular country. While this linear representation of mobility might constitute the pathway taken by some migrants, in many cases it denies a whole range of experiences, trajectories and complex cultural affiliations that lie outside of such a simplistic representation of movement from country A to country B. Viewing migrants in terms of their past, present and future allows for the ways their trajectories involve, and extend beyond, Australia’s borders as well as recognising the diversity and complexity of their experiences and the extent to which they move from one migrant category to another over time.
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Copyright 2011 Social Alternatives