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A central feature of contemporary globalisation is the emergence of new patterns of international migration and mobility which have led to people—particularly the middle class—moving for non-traditional reasons. Such reasons are commonly grouped in two categories: push and pull drivers of migration, where traditional push factors are escaping poverty, natural disasters or persecution, while traditional pull factors are the availability of jobs and overall better work-life conditions. The experience of Mexican migration to Australia strikingly distinguishes this group from traditional Mexican migrants who mostly have the United States as their destination.
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The Red Global MX is part of a programme designed by the Mexican Foreign Affairs Department (Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores) through the Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior which seeks to keep strong contact with the skilled diaspora, abandoning the brain drain paradigm and aligning with the knowledge circulation paradigm.
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Such a lifestyle often involves domestic workers, drivers, frequent fine dining and international travel, among other consumption and leisure activities which denote prestige and status.
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Again, this behaviour is not exhibited by the traditional Mexican migrants in the United States, for whom support from their fellow countrymen is vital.
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With the exception of a few recent studies such as Robertson’s (2013).
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Vazquez Maggio, M.L. (2017). Conclusions and Outlook: What Will the Future Bring?. In: Mobility Patterns and Experiences of the Middle Classes in a Globalizing Age. The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53393-3_6
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