ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the particular fraction of the middle class, given their importance to marginalised localities which must rely on the mobility of these credentialed professionals and their families to sustain human services and viable communities. The online survey sought to understand the motivators and inhibitors that mediated professional's motility and their resulting mobility in terms of family relocations over the years. Neoliberalism pertains to the global policy wave that has fostered market logic and the exercise of consumer choice to drive innovation and quality improvements in public sector services. To capture a sense of the social affordances of each place we used the Index of Relative Socio-Economic Advantage and Disadvantage (IRSAD) developed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Marginson argues that, with growing marketisation of educational sectors, the formal credential is shifting from being construed as a public good to serving more as a private, positional good.
