ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the nexus of identity, mobility, and transnationalism by focusing on the various complicated entanglements encountered by mobile student-migrant subjects, and forging to delineate transnational student mobility at the turn of twenty-first century. The phenomenon of international student mobility and their subsequent immigrations is not new. Robertson (2013) has critically pointed out how by structuring international education as a pathway to skilled migration, Australia has further neoliberalised its immigration governance in three main aspects. It gives a discourse of an ideal neoliberal student-migrant subject being framed as designer migrants which expresses values such as citizenship and mobility. The final aspect refers to how the Australian education-migration nexus has insinuated the individual student-migrant to be market actors so that they represent economic benefit for the institutions, state and labour market. In reality, student-migrant mobility is not an innocent manoeuvre that goes blindly with the movements and flows of globalisation.
