Residency, Citizenship And Belonging: Choice And Uncertainty For Studentsturned-migrants In Australia
Since 1998, Australian migration policy has overtly recruited international graduates into the skilled migration stream, and evidence suggests that increasing numbers of international students are considering their study in Australia as a pathway to residency. However, the nature of the journey f...
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Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM Press)
2008
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/40243/1/shanti.pdf http://eprints.usm.my/40243/ http://ijaps.usm.my/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/shanti.pdf |
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| Summary: | Since 1998, Australian migration policy has overtly recruited international
graduates into the skilled migration stream, and evidence suggests that increasing
numbers of international students are considering their study in Australia as a
pathway to residency. However, the nature of the journey from student to resident
as a migration process remains largely under researched, particularly in terms of
the transition from transient student to permanent resident, and from permanent
resident to citizen. This paper, based on in-depth interviews with students-turnedmigrants from a variety of source countries, examines the choices and strategies
of these migrants in terms of applying for residency and considering
naturalisation. Viewing the student-migrant experience through a transnational
lens, this paper will foreground the meanings that the participants ascribe to
residency, citizenship and belonging. I will consider their choices in terms of the
negotiation of their belonging across multiple nations, and outline some of the
challenges and uncertainties they face through this decision making process. |
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