ABSTRACT
The mobility of skilled migrants is seen as the most visible and standard form of global migration, particularly to the UK, as this is linked to secure employment opportunities legally sanctioned through national migration policies. Yet the lived experiences of recent skilled migrants do not fit neatly into the traditional concept of the skilled worker-citizen relationship as recent policy shifts and broader ideological changes fostered an anti-immigration climate that produces discursive patterns of alignments between the labour market and work practices, disrupting professional, personal and familial arrangements within and beyond borders. Vignettes of migrant experiences of Indian professions across various sectors in the UK illuminate dimensions of precariousness, which is both similar and different to the experiences of other migrant workers.
