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| Title: | Work-life (im)balance and existential (im)mobility : Hong Kong professional migrants in Australia | Authors: | To, Y | Issue Date: | 2025 | Source: | In YW Chan, & Y To (Eds.), Global Hong Kong: Post-2019 Migration and the New Hong Kong Diaspora, p. 123-142. London and New York: Routledge, 2025 | Abstract: | This chapter discusses the experiences of professional migrants from Hong Kong who have chosen to settle in Melbourne, and other places in the Victoria State of Australia, in the hope of pursuing a better life. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 14 highly skilled individuals, this study reveals the strategies and capital they used to facilitate their relocation to Australia, their adjustment to the Aussie way of living, and the new dilemmas they faced as skilled migrants. This chapter adopts the theoretical lens of existential (im)mobility to explore the motivations for emigration amongst these aspiring professionals, and to explain the ways in which new frustrations have emerged due to differences in work culture and conditions between Hong Kong and Australia. Their “privileged” way of migration also illustrates the intersection of migrant human capital, professional networks, and the host government's talent acquisition and immigration policies. The case study provides fresh material to enhance understandings of contemporary skilled migration. | Publisher: | Routledge | ISBN: | 978-1-032-89689-2 (hbk) 978-1-032-89696-0 (pbk) 978-1-003-54415-9 (ebk) |
DOI: | 10.4324/9781003544159-10 | Rights: | © 2025 selection and editorial matter, Yuk Wah Chan and Yvette To; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Yuk Wah Chan and Yvette To to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Global Hong Kong: Post-2019 Migration and the New Hong Kong Diaspora on 4 March 2025, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9781003544159. |
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