Momentarily immobile: Backpacking, farm work and hostels in Bundaberg, Australia

摘要: The Working Holiday Maker visa encourages young people from 44 nations to live and work for up three years in Australia, contributing immensely the temporary migrant workforce regional areas. However, conditions they experience while completing 88 days of mandatory ‘farm work’ apply extensions often place them vulnerable situations states immobility that are counter perception backpackers as mobile. Types accommodation specifically farm workers known working hostels some cases ways which administered have perpetuated precarious immobile find themselves. This article explores lived experiences who undertaken Bundaberg region, a new ‘hot spot’ seasonal labour. Drawing on ethnographic observations interviews with 35 holiday makers, advances suggestion recent shifts hostelling practices increased competition agricultural jobs region individuals increasingly immobility.