Conclusion

  • Claudia Tazreiter
  • Leanne Weber
  • Sharon Pickering
  • Marie Segrave
  • Helen McKernan
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Abstract

Temporary migration in its many forms is one of the new challenges of the twenty-first century. The conditions of globalisation unsettle orthodox conceptions of migration and border control, as migrants increasingly operate through transnational networks in which identities and loyalties to nations are more fluid than when people migrate for life (Sassen 2006). New conceptual tools based on regions, networks and fluidity are being adopted to describe these emerging social forms that are constituted through mobility (Urry 2007). These trends are mirrored by fluidity in legal status, so that mobile individuals may move between legality and illegality as well as between temporary and permanent categories (Schuster 2005). While the adage that ‘there is nothing more permanent than temporary foreign workers’ (Bauböck 2011, p. 671) may reflect the concerns of states anxious to limit permanent migration, the contemporary reality falls somewhere between this sedentary vision and the hyper-mobility suggested by the idea of a ‘world in motion’ (Aas 2007). Under the flexible, often chaotic conditions of globalisation, a stark dichotomy between temporary and permanent is no longer sustainable or reflective of human experience and expectations. Rather, mobility patterns are diversifying at a rate that far outstrips the capacity of governments to adapt in order to meet the emerging human security needs of mobile populations.

Keywords

Chinese Student Migration Policy Mobile Population Human Security Border Control 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Claudia Tazreiter
    • 1
  • Leanne Weber
    • 2
  • Sharon Pickering
    • 2
  • Marie Segrave
    • 2
  • Helen McKernan
    • 3
  1. 1.University of New South WalesDarlinghurstAustralia
  2. 2.Monash UniversityMelbourneAustralia
  3. 3.Swinburne University of TechnologyHawthornAustralia

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