Migration and Work Beyond the Metropole

Martina Boese is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Social Inquiry at La Trobe University, Australia. Her research examines migration, employment and social inequality in relation to policy and governance, with particular attention to regional migration and settlement, migrant and refugee mobilities, precarious work and racialisation. She co-authored Becoming Australian: Migration, Settlement and Citizenship (2014) and co-edited Critical Reflections on Migration, ‘Race’ and Multiculturalism (2017).

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Regional migration and its governance in Australia.- Chapter 3: Key research directions on regional migration.- Chapter 4: Challenging economism.- Chapter 5: Making sense of regional migration and migrant workers.- Chapter 6. Conceptualizing and experiencing regional mobilities.- Chapter 7: Regional multiculturalising beyond the business case.- Chapter 8: Conclusion.