1. Migrants In-Between: Rethinking Privilege and Social Mobility in Middle-Class Migration Part I: Relocating Class: Reconfigurations of Class Through Migration 2. The Classed Frustrations of Middling Migrants from China in Australia: Suzhi Discourse Meets the Neoliberal Logics of Selective Migration Policies 3. Shifting Privileges: An Ethnographic Study of White and Upper-Class Colombian Migrant Women Living in Melbourne, Australia 4. Mobile Lives in Search of Place: Homelessness and Frustrated Mobility Among Young Romanians in Madrid Part II: Place, Taste and Aspiration: Local Geographies and Middleclass Imaginaries 5. Suburban Strivers and the South Bombay Elite: How Localised Micro-Categories of Class Shape International Education in Mumbai 6. Migrant Entrepreneurs and Urban Cultural Economy in Sydney, The City of Villages: Haymarkets Chinatown and Leichhardts Little Italy 7. The View of Lifestyle Migration: A Brief Exploration of the Ethics of Seeking a Better Way of Life 8. Navigating Everyday Life in a Middle-Class Neighbourhood: The Ongoing Negotiations of Japanese Women Migrants in Southeast London Part III: Relational Dynamics: Middleclass Migrant Families and Couples 9. Moving Privilege: Middling Transnational Couples and the Relational Dimensions of Privilege 10. Mothers in the Middle: Rethinking Middling Migration as Relational 11. Mainland Chinese Grandparenting Migration as Middling Transnationalism: Family, Life Stage and Lifecourse
This volume explores the experiences of a wide variety of middle-class or middling migrant groups across the globe, asking how relatively privileged migrant groups negotiate their life trajectories and aspirations while on the move and how they potentially transform the communil³k