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Chapter 1: DEPARTURE – MIGRATION, TRANSNATIONALISM AND WHAT LIES IN-BETWEEN
Indian Students who are also Migrants
The PR Factory and the Education Industry
The Desire to be Transnationally Mobile
The Rationality of Migration
The Meaning of Transnationalism
Locating Agency in Studies on Migration and Transnationalism
Anthropological Fieldwork among Indian Students in Melbourne
The Internal Complexity of the Indian Middle Class
Learning to Migrate, Migrating to Learn
Chapter 2: FIRST SEMESTER – OF LEAVING AND ARRIVING: FROM AND TO A CULTURE OF MIGRATION
The Importance of Education
Finding the Right Destination
Community ‘Under Construction’
The Symptomatic Middle Class
The Strength of Weak Ties
More Arriving Yet to Come
Chapter 3: SECOND SEMESTER – SOME HISTORY LESSONS AS WELL AS LEARNING THE HARD WAY
Lessons to be Learned and Understood
Not Yet Non-Resident Indians
Working for the Local Indian Community
Of Coolies, Dhangars and Ghans
Enter the Professional Indian
The Indian Community in Melbourne
Perceiving and Receiving Indian Students
Four Different Indian Communities
Chapter 4: SUMMER SCHOOL – A HISTORY OF STUDENTS GOING OVERSEAS
Anchorage, Net-Loss and Non-Return
Australia in the Seventies
Overseas Education in Transition
Overseas Education in the New Millennium
The Australian ‘Success’ Story
Overseas Education in the Shop Window
A Broader and More Complex Context
The Education Industry in Practice
Over Dependency and Connected Dangers
Chapter 5: THIRD SEMESTER – LEARNING HOW TO WORK IN-BETWEEN: LEGAL AND ILLEGAL REALMS
The Hyphen In-Between Student-Migrant
Finances as Primary Reason
The Normalcy of Doing Something Illegal
In-Between Legal and Illegal Spheres, or: ‘Everyone is doing it!’
‘Being Serious’ about Education
Marketing Education (and Migration)
The PR Factory in Production
Grey Zones: Liminality and In-Betweenness
The Nation-State Has Died; Long Live the Nation-State!
Chapter 6:
FOURTH SEMESTER – GRADUATING AS A MIGRANT
Into the Great Wide Ocean
Wanting But Not Being Able To
Class and Gender in a Community Setting
The Struggle to Learn From
Visiting Agents and/or Lawyers
The Options Further Examined
‘Going Bush’: Not an Option
A Return to a Departure Point
The Question of Permanent Residence
Gendered Imaginations of Success and Failure
Chapter 7: ARRIVAL – IMAGINED MOBILITY
Understanding Student Migration
A Middle Class Dream of Going Abroad
Imagination in the Process of Transnationalization
Mentally and Physically Arriving
Chapter 8: A NEW DEPARTURE – CURRY BASHING AND ALIEN SPACE INVADERS
Surat, Gujarat (West India), 40+ Degrees and Mercury Rising
An Extraordinary Attack on ‘Our’ Universities
A Hunger Strike, Murder and Taxi Driver Uproar in Melbourne
An Australian History with/of Racism
Curry Bashing; Weak or Soft Targets?
A Comparison with the Cronulla Riots of 2005
Alien Space Invaders and the Battle Down Under
Space for the Question of Racism
Is the Indian Diaspora Dream Over?
Appendix: DATA, DILEMMAS AND DOING FIELDWORK THE ETHICAL WAY
From Bangalore to Melbourne
Big City Anthropological Research
Love and Longing in Bangalore
Privacy and the Private Anthropologist
Doing Research the ‘Ethical’ Way
Log-ons and Continuations: Research into the Future
Chapter 1: Departure – Migration, Transnationalism and What Lies In-Between
Chapter 2: First Semester – Of Leaving and Arriving: From and to a Culture of Migration
Chapter 3: Second Semester – Some History Lessons as well as Learning the Hard Way
Chapter 4: Summer School – A History of Students Going Overseas
Chapter 5: Third Semester – Learning How to Work In-Between: Legal and Illegal Realms
Chapter 6: Fourth Semester – Graduating as a Migrant
Chapter 7: Arrival – Imagined Mobility
Chapter 8: A New Departure – Curry Bashing and Alien Space Invaders
Appendix: Data, Dilemmas and Doing Fieldwork the Ethical Way
Imagined Mobility
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