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International students are often engaged not just in education, but in high stakes towards gaining permanent migration status. This book unpacks the consequences of this education-migration nexus, analyzing migration policies and providing a vivid picture of student-migrants´ lived experiences.

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1. Introduction 2. The Education-Migration Nexus: Global Flows 3. The Nexus and its Discontents: an Australian Perspective 4. Shaping the Student-Migrant Experience 5. Permanent Residency as ´The Holy Grail´ 6. Acquiring and Practising Citizenship 7. Negotiating Border Crossing Lives Conclusion: Precarious Transnationals and the Settler Nation

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"By drawing on interviews and case studies, Robertson grounds her theoretical and empirical material in lived experience." - Inside Story

Winner, Raewyn Connell Prize for the Best First Book in Australian Sociology, awarded by The Australian Sociology Association.

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Shanthi Robertson is Research Fellow at the Institute of Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. She was previously a Lecturer in Global Studies at RMIT University, Australia. Her research interests include emerging forms of temporary migration, urban dimensions of migration, citizenship, and migrant rights.

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