This paper discusses whether liquid migration, a framework developed to theorise recent patterns of intra-European migration, is a suitable lens to analyse contemporary migration in other regions of the Western world. It does so by drawing on findings from ethnographic research conducted on the Brazilian migration to Australia, a recent migration wave whose patterns are embedded in a transformed migration context and paradigm. The reflections suggest that, notwithstanding a few differences and nuances inherent to the migration regime in question, the original framing of liquid migration is helpful to analyse and understand contemporary patterns of Brazilian migration to Australia. The contributions of this paper include a reframing of the original dimensions of liquid migration based on contemporary migration patterns to Australia. Based on the Australian case, this paper proposes a new dimension of liquid migration—namely, fluid visa journeys—which addresses some of the critiques of the original formulation of the concept. Finally, this paper argues that the fluidity of contemporary migration patterns to Australia is not a condition migrants pursue willingly, but rather one they are ‘trapped into’.

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重新审视流动移民：对巴西向澳大利亚流动的思考

本文讨论了流动移民这一为理论化欧洲内部移民近期模式而开发的框架是否适合分析西方世界其他地区的当代移民。它是通过借鉴对巴西向澳大利亚移民进行的人种学研究的结果来做到这一点的，这是最近的一次移民浪潮，其模式嵌入了转变的移民背景和范式中。这些反思表明，尽管有关移民制度存在一些固有的差异和细微差别，但流动移民的原始框架有助于分析和理解巴西向澳大利亚移民的当代模式。本文的贡献包括根据澳大利亚当代移民模式重新构建液体移民的原始维度。基于澳大利亚的案例，本文提出了流动移民的新维度，即流动签证旅程，解决了对该概念最初表述的一些批评。最后，本文认为，当代澳大利亚移民模式的流动性并不是移民自愿追求的条件，而是他们“陷入”的条件。