Session Information
23 SES 07 C, Theorizing Globally Distributed Educational Work
Symposium
Contribution
Kandiyoti’s (2003) work on transnational belonging critiques much recent research on transnationalism theory that suggests migrants’ transnationalism undermines the notion of the nation-state and its political and cultural borders. This theoretical work suggests the experience of migration is both liberating and transgressive, and that transnationalism makes multiple identities available to all immigrants who maintain connections between multiple sites. Kandiyoti challenges this contention, arguing that transnationalism has uneven outcomes for different populations.This paper reviews Kandiyoti’s work through the experiences of a group of migrant women from the Indian subcontinent, living in Shepparton in regional Australia. These women are engaged in the work of learning to live across multiple places, spaces and identities. Most of the women are in Australia as the spouses of 457 temporary visa holders for skilled migrants, and all are educated in their own right. The analysis explores the invisible educational work of migrant women located outside the centre—as regional dwellers, as temporary migrants, and as educated women with limited access to the world of paid work. It elaborates transnationalism as experienced by women who may or may not have chosen migration for themselves, and who struggle with multiple identities and (be-)longings.
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