‘His visa is made of rubber’: tactics, risk and temporary moorings under conditions of multi-stage migration to Australia

Roberts, Rosie

doi:10.1080/14649365.2019.1584826

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“…Women engaged in intimate relationships with Australian men and had children, whilst being on ‘temporary’ visas, with fears that they wouldn’t be able to stay. Limited literature exists on the experiences of ‘long-term temporary’ residents [ 55 ], and subsequent impacts on the health and well-being of individuals, particularly women. Conversely, women on permanent visas maintained strong, transnational ties to Indonesia, as reported in our previous work.…”

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Exploring the Intersections of Migration, Gender, and Sexual Health with Indonesian Women in Perth, Western Australia

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Crawford

Maycock

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This paper explores the intersections of migration, gender, and sexual health with Indonesian women living in Perth, Western Australia. The study was part of a larger participatory action research project to co-design an intervention to increase HIV testing in migrant Indonesian women. Unstructured interviews were conducted with adult Indonesian women (n = 10) on their experiences of migration and sexual health. Zimmerman’s migration phases (pre-departure and travel, destination, and return) provided a framework to conceptualize women’s migration journeys. We found that women’s migration journeys were shaped by gender, with male-led migration often reinforcing gender norms. Structural and sociocultural factors (including visa status) influenced women’s sense of belonging while living in Australia, such as help-seeking behaviour and engagement in sexual relationships. Intersecting factors of gender, culture, and the migration process should be considered when designing public health interventions to improve women’s sexual health, in particular migration policies and procedures.

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Exploring the Intersections of Migration, Gender, and Sexual Health with Indonesian Women in Perth, Western Australia

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Crawford

Maycock

et al. 2022

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“…Rather than a unified classification, this 'middling' space involves varied social locations and identities, socio-economic statuses, migration classifications and contexts. It also involves diverse mobility motivations including international education (Robertson, 2014), working holidays (Clarke, 2005), lifestyle (Benson & O'Reilly, 2016) and skilled employment (Ryan & Mulholland, 2014) as well as tactical mobility where people utilise a range of visa classifications, which may belie their skills and experience, in order to negotiate immigration governance structures in pursuing long-term settlement options (Roberts, 2021). Through life-course approaches, an increasing recognition of much research on the experiences of middling migrants is the ways in which people navigate a range of spatial pathways that are ongoing and unfinished.…”

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“…However, distinctions between on-going and stepwise can become blurred if we take account of shifts in decision-making and circumstances over time. What began as step-wise migration may transform into on-going or onward migration and may not be hierarchical but involve a series of returns to countries of origin when initial plans do not eventuate, new professional opportunities emerge or the needs of family transform plans (Roberts, 2021). These intermediate steps, which can result in multiple moves between countries over the life course, have been theorised through a variety of terms including onward and step-wise as well as serial, multiple and transit migration (Ossman, 2013;Ahrens et al, 2016;Paul, 2017).…”

Section: Middling Mobility Onward Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Somehow I’m an Expat and He’s a Migrant’: Intersectional Identities, Multiple Migrations and Family Decision-Making Amongst Middling Migrant Couples

Roberts

2022

IMISCOE Research Series

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This chapter offers a critical reframing of how migration decision-making can shift between partners over time and space. Told through the lens of the female spouse within two heterosexual migrant couples, the chapter shows how experiences of mobility are not just shaped by individuals’ social positionality but also by the complex intersections between their classed, gendered, religious and racialised identities and that of their partners. The literature on middling migration has often been a story of male-led labour migration, with women occupying the status of the accompanying migrant. Less attention is paid to the experiences of migrant women, particularly those who first relocate on family or spousal visas but who seek to re-negotiate gender-differentiated career progression over time and through multiple relocations. Through a detailed biographical case study of two couples, this chapter seeks to capture the shifts in their trajectories, attachments and decision-making that occur spatially, temporally and relationally to show the diverse experiences and statuses that constitute the often-homogenised category of ‘the middle’.

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“…suspending their rights temporarily) that would extend their work permits. Allen and Axelsson thus argue that ‘the technologies of temporal management […] act as a supplement to spatial regulation, stretching and manipulating time to control the movement and rights of migrant labour’ (p. 118; but see Roberts, 2021 on temporary migrants’ agentic tactics). Even when new immigrants have naturalised as citizens, the periodisation of migration by cohort (i.e.…”

Section: Migration Mobility and Social Inequalities In Space-timesmentioning

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Social geography I: Time and temporality

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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Time and temporality have gained renewed attention in the social sciences. This report examines such research in social geography, contextualising these developments in earlier geographical scholarship. It excavates the contemporary ways in which time and temporality’s relationship with space is conceptualised to analyse social relations, social inequalities and social justice. The report discusses three domains: intimate space-times, life stage and life-course; migration, mobility and social inequalities; and human–nature relations in the past, present and future. The report argues that the temporal framings and strategies of how people engage with unequal socio-spatial relations are core to the enduring concerns of social geographers.

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‘His visa is made of rubber’: tactics, risk and temporary moorings under conditions of multi-stage migration to Australia

Cited by 15 publications

References 37 publications

Exploring the Intersections of Migration, Gender, and Sexual Health with Indonesian Women in Perth, Western Australia

Exploring the Intersections of Migration, Gender, and Sexual Health with Indonesian Women in Perth, Western Australia

‘Somehow I’m an Expat and He’s a Migrant’: Intersectional Identities, Multiple Migrations and Family Decision-Making Amongst Middling Migrant Couples

Social geography I: Time and temporality

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