Foreign real estate investment and international education as a family wealth strategy

This chapter interrogates the familial intersections of transnational real estate, education and migration. The global mobility of people and capital across transnational borders is a heavily mediated process with a wide range of implicated actors, institutions, policies and technologies. Much of the existing literature on these transnational mobilities tends to consider education, real estate and migration as largely distinct. This chapter emphasizes the essential links between such flows through an examination of Chinese family strategies of interconnected foreign education, migration and housing consumption in Sydney, Australia. The chapter’s focus on the familial context reveals the clear spatiotemporal dimensions of housing financialization that both exceed the nation state and are locally emplaced within the intimate spaces of the family home.