ORCID Profile
0000-0002-2207-687X
Current Organisations
University of Western Australia
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Edith Cowan University
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University of Oxford
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Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 23-02-2022
DOI: 10.1177/00027642221075261
Abstract: In this article, we contrast the digital kinning and digital homing practices of PRC Chinese transnational grandparents in Australia from two migration cohorts. Our case studies demonstrate that these digital practices form an integral part of the ability to anticipate aging futures. This “digital anticipation” not only helps to safeguard and affirm social and cultural identities that are often at risk as people age in migrant settings, but also provides the potential to imagine either a future return to China that involves physical separation from children and grandchildren, or, conversely, a future lived in Australia while still maintaining connection and participating digitally in affective economies that extend beyond the nuclear family to encompass siblings, friends, and lifelong workmates. Here the role of facilitated digital access is highlighted as a form of care that can be provided by younger generations.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-10-2022
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 31-01-2022
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 12-03-2018
DOI: 10.1108/IJSSP-01-2017-0002
Abstract: “Asian” is an aggregating descriptive term commonly used in Australian media, politics and everyday speech to describe people of erse backgrounds. The purpose of this paper is to question the extent to which “Asian” Australian residents living in Perth, Western Australia demonstrate spatial or organisational panethnic association. The paper analyses quantitative population data from the 2011 Census using GIS to visualise the spatial residential distribution of in iduals born in Asian countries and in iduals with Chinese ancestry within the Perth metropolitan area. The paper further uses qualitative data drawn from fieldwork conducted in Perth to consider evidence of organisational panethnic association. For first generation migrants there is currently little spatial or organisation evidence of “Asian” panethnic association in Perth. Migrants from different ethno-national backgrounds exhibit very different residential patterns. Incipient ethnoburbs are developing that appear to be based on ethnicity rather than panethnicity. Migrant organisation in Perth is likewise arranged primarily on the basis of ethnicity although some panethnic work is observed. Findings indicate trends towards ethnic residential segregation. Further longitudinal research could expand upon these findings. Qualitative research could determine causes of segregation and implications of (pan)ethnic identities, and explore how in iduals from Asian countries respond to the dominant linguistic aggregation of “Asians”. This paper offers an original analysis of a common frame of reference that has received little critical attention in the Australian context. It applies the framework of Asian panethnicity developed in the USA and finds it wanting, highlighting an inconsistency between the racialised language used in Australia to describe migrants from Asia and the ways these migrants associate.
Publisher: Australian Population Studies
Date: 30-05-2021
DOI: 10.37970/APS.V5I1.81
Abstract: No abstract
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-02-2023
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 03-2017
Abstract: From the early 2000s onwards, labour migrants from China with technical work skills but low educational attainment arrived in Australia with fixed-term, temporary plans. Yet, to their surprise, many have been thwarted in their plans to return, and have instead experienced an unexpected transition to permanent residency (PR). Reasons include rapid economic growth in China and the rising cost of housing the challenges of re-entering the competitive Chinese education system for children accustomed to Australian schools and the realization that time spent overseas has limited work opportunities upon return. They describe their experiences in terms that closely resemble classical labour migrations of colonial and postcolonial eras. Return and discourses of return must be understood within contemporary migration models that emphasize circular, transient and open-ended mobility. Yet in idual migrants still articulate migration trajectories and return plans that are grounded in simpler conceptions of ‘here’ and ‘there’. While recognizing the contemporary shift towards mobile and transnational lives among elites and non-elites alike, it is important not to overlook the very real and material barriers to return that some temporary migrants claim to experience.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 13-09-2019
Abstract: This article considers the disjunctures that exist between the temporalities of legal status and those of migrants’ lived experiences, and explores the relationship between precarity and temporality. Ethnographic research conducted among recent migrants from China living in Perth, Western Australia with a focus on migrants who have been sponsored by employers to work and remain in Australia, demonstrates that while migrants may hold temporary or permanent visas, their migration objectives and settlement processes do not necessarily accord with their formal status. Many in iduals who arrived in Australia with the intention of quickly attaining permanent residency find their plans are stymied by shifting circumstances and changes to migration legislation. They instead continue to experience the precarious employment, liminality and family disruption that come with a prolonged and indeterminate temporariness. Meanwhile others have become permanent residents despite arriving as self-imagined sojourners, employment in Australia very often only the next step in a series of temporary labour migrations. Even after many years of permanent status, however, these migrants commonly experience a limited sense of belonging and imagine futures that entail circular patterns of on-migration. The case studies presented disrupt the sense of permanence that is implied in secure legal statuses, and provide evidence of the lasting impact of precarious temporalities.
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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