Infrastructures of insecurity: Housing and language testing in Asia-Australia migration |
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| Institution: | 1. Departamento de Química, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid, PR 445, Km 380, 86051-980, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil;2. Instituto de Química, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 13083-970, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil;1. International Clinical Research Center and the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, St. Anna''s University Hospital Brno, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic;2. Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA;3. Department of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA;1. VISILAB, E.T.S. Ingenieros Industriales, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain;2. Department of Pathology, Hospital de Jerez de la Frontera, Spain;3. Department of Pathology, Hospital General Universitario de Ciudad Real, Spain;1. LEQUIA, Institute of the Environment, University of Girona, M. Aurèlia Campany, 69, 17003 Girona, Spain;2. Department of Computer Science, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, University of Girona, M Aurèlia Campany, 61, 17003, Girona, Spain |
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| Abstract: | This paper explores how migration infrastructure conditions migrant mobilities within receiving states. The paper examines two infrastructural case studies, language testing and housing markets, in relation to Asian ‘middling’ migrants, that is, the relatively educated and skilled but not elite, who arrive in Australia on temporary visas. The analysis highlights the interplays and dependencies of different ‘logics of operation’ (Xiang and Lindquist, 2014) of infrastructure in relation to these migrants’ status mobilities and housing mobilities within the receiving society. The paper draws on data from in-depth narrative interviews with migrants to also understand how infrastructure produces perceptions and meaning-making around the migration process. This analysis reveals that, in this empirical context, migration infrastructure produces varied kinds of spatio-temporal insecurity as much as it mediates mobility. |
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| Keywords: | Migration infrastructure Australia Asia Migration |
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