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Becoming trans/nationally mobile: the conflation of internal and international migration in the trajectories of Indian student-migrants in Australia and beyond / Baas, Michiel

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The growth of Indian students' enrolment numbers in Australian educational institutions has often been linked to the relatively easy pathway the country, until recently, offered towards Australian permanent residency (PR). However, building on ethnographic data collected over the past ten years this article shows that ‘permanently’ residing in Australia is often not the objective. Instead, the mobility that these Indian student-migrants aim for encompasses a broader understanding of mobility that includes a variety of locations in both countries and beyond which emerge and/or are abandoned organically in an individual's trajectory. As such it is argue that their mobility strategies can be conceptualized as having ‘trans/national’ dimensions.

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Migration ; India ; Mobility ; Transnationalism ; International Students

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IT caste: love and arranged marriages in the IT industry of Bangalore / Baas, Michiel

Baas, Michiel	Journal Article
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2009.

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Arranged Marriages ; Renewal IT Caste ; Love Marriages ; IT Industries ; Marriage - West ; Indian Marriage

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Victims or profiteers: issues of migration, racism and violence among Indian students in Melbourne / Baas, Michiel

Baas, Michiel	Journal Article
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2014.

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This paper analyses the impact the phenomenal growth (2002-2009) and rapid decline (2010-2012) of Indian student numbers has had on the city of Melbourne. Specifically addressing the way the debate developed over the allegedly racially motivated attacks on students in 2009 the paper examines how conflicting narratives on Indian students could emerge presenting them as 'victims' and/or 'profiteers'. Making use of an analysis of over a thousand media reports as well as drawing on ethnographic material the paper argues that the way the debate about the racist character of the attacks unfolded in popular media is revealing of the way the growth in Indian students in Melbourne has been experienced and perceived over time. In particular the entanglement of education and migration in Australia, allowing Indian students to become permanent residents by graduating from low-quality institutions, contributed to the perception of them being low-skilled migrants and as such 'profiteers'. As a result the paper not only shows how a rapidly growing and highly commercial education industry was able to influence the dynamics and socio-cultural make-up of the city of Melbourne but also how the entanglement of education and migration produced a volatile situation with ultimately far reaching social and economic consequences for the city.

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Migration ; Violence ; Racism ; Australia ; India ; Ethnic violence ;
Influence ; Ethnographic Material ; Transnational Education

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