In this paper, I look at the occupational identities of migrant Malaysian women in the Australian educational context to explore the concept of educational work. These young women have migrated from the highly stratified, ethnicized, and politicized Malaysian context to Australia, which is seen to be a ‘western’, post-industrial, neo-liberal and capitalist society. I am interested in the ways in which these women workers reconstitute their transnational ways of being as they approach agency within the structural and cultural conditions of Australia. Their process of self-identification occurs within boundary zones. Their boundary work is an on-going process of interpretation and reworking social positions, and also navigating those positions and their meanings through cultural, educational and global discourses. I draw on the works of critical postcolonial scholars such as Desai (2009), Mirza (2009), Nagar et al (2002) and Purkayastha (2005) to conceptualise occupational identities and work strategies and the way they are located across multiple cultural and educational boundaries. Ways of being then entails ‘shopping around’ in considering various identity strategies that work in different instances. I elaborate the implications of these practices for ‘educational work’ and the ‘politics of we’. ‘