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Migration and Work Beyond the Metropole: Challenging Economism in Australian Migration Policy and Practice

Migration and Work Beyond the Metropole: Challenging Economism in Australian Migration Policy and Practice

Boese, Martina

Hardcover

Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship

General Political ScienceGeneral SociologyImmigration & Refugees

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 14, 2026

ISBN10: 3032322944
ISBN13: 9783032322944
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Nov 14 2026
Pages: 288
Language: English
This book examines how migration and migrant work are governed, lived and understood beyond major cities. Using Australia as a settler-colonial immigration country with extensive regional migration policies, the book offers a critical migration sociology of regional migration as both a policy project and a social space. It approaches regional migration at three levels: as everyday practice shaped by migrants, refugees, employers, service providers and long-term residents; as a governance arena structured by differentiated visa regimes, rights and responsibilities; and as an object of knowledge produced across disciplines and institutions. Across eight chapters, the book maps key policy settings shaping regional migration and migrant work, reviews social-scientific research on regional migration, refugee settlement and precarious labour, and traces critiques of economistic rationales in migration governance. Drawing on qualitative research conducted between 2010 and 2023 in regional Victorian towns, it analyses how stakeholders narrate the value of migrants, how attraction and retention are framed, and how onward mobility--often labelled secondary migration--is negotiated across life course, gender, racialisation and place-based opportunity structures. The book also examines how multiculturalism is debated and practised in regional communities, including the strategic mobilisation of economic arguments from below.

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