This book explores the complex category of the ‘skilled migrant’. Developing the more nuanced concept of the ‘mobile settler’, the research shows how becoming a skilled migrant is not just a political and economic determination of knowledge and human capital but a complex negotiation of contexts – immigration contexts and conditions, social locations, qualifications and skills, as well as personal ties. Belying the simple binaries of official visa categories (e.g. student/worker, skilled/unskilled and temporary/permanent), these diverse contexts of migrant experience are central to the ways migrants construct their personal histories and negotiate their shifting attachments to home and belonging. By highlighting how migrants imagine their own identities and pathways, this book extends the agent-centred approaches to global mobility and transnationalism that have emerged in cultural studies and social and cultural geography in recent years, affording greater recognition to the individualised, local and lived experiences of global migration and thus engaging more deeply with global concerns about increased mobility and the challenges it represents.
- ISBN: 978-981-13-3163-3
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Fecha Publicación: 13/04/2019
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés