Faculty of ArtsSchool of Social and Political Sciences

International Conference

A Long Way from Home: Rural and Regional Resettlement Experiences of Visible Migrants and Refugees

 

Date: Friday 10 February, 2012

Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm

Venue: Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre, University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010. Grid ref. J21 on the campus map.

Parking: Eastern Precinct Car Park, 375 Cardigan St, Carlton. For more parking options, visit the casual parking website.



Conference Presentations

Opening Address

Keynote


Session One Identity and Community


Session Two Employment


Session Three Policies and Programs


Presentations are not for citation or reproducation without written permission from the author


Welcome from the Convenors

It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to participate in the International Conference, "A Long Way from Home? The Rural and Regional Resettlement Experiences of Visible Migrants and Refugees", on Friday 10 February 2012 at the University of Melbourne.

This academic conference is hosted by the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project "Resettling Visible Migrants and Refugees in Rural and Regional Australia" conducted out of the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne in partnership with the Victorian Office of Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship (OMAC) and Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV).

Regional and rural settlement of migrants and refugees is an increasingly relevant settlement trend in Australia, assisted by government policy and community sector initiatives and motivated by migrants and refugees themselves. Settlement is influenced by the pre-arrival experiences of migrants and refugees, along with a multitude of micro and macro factors in the social, political and economic realms of the destination country which play out differently in metropolitan and regional or rural locations. The visibility of the most recently-arrived migrants and refugees from Africa, the Middle East, South and South-East Asia is also a feature of their settlement experience.

Exploring these issues and related debates, this academic conference will showcase the emerging work of the ARC Linkage Project and engage other leading academics to provide a wider national, international and comparative overview of regional migration and settlement trends, policies and practice.

We look forward to seeing you there.

A free, conversational public forum precedes the academic conference on Thursday 9 February.


Professor Brian Galligan and Dr Millsom Henry-Waring

Joint Chief Investigators, ARC Linkage Project "Resettling Visible Migrants and Refugees in Rural and Regional Australia"

School of Social and Political Sciences

University of Melbourne


Invited Speakers

Opening address

The Hon. Nicholas Kotsiras, Victorian Minister for Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship

Nicholas Kotsiras was first elected the Member for Bulleen in 1999 and has been re-elected in 2002, 2006 and 2010. Nicholas completed a Bachelor of Science (Education) Degree at the University of Melbourne and before entering the Victorian Parliament was a secondary school science and mathematics teacher. He taught at Coburg High School and Merriland High School before taking up the Principal's position at Brunswick Grammar. He worked as an advisor to the Victorian Premier on multicultural affairs and was a ministerial advisor and later, Chief of Staff to the Minister for Tertiary Education and Training. An active member of his local community, he is an honorary member of the Veneto Club and the Rotary Club of Templestowe, as well as a member of the Parliamentary Lions Club.

 

Keynote presentation

Professor Stephen Castles, University of Sydney / International Migration Institute, University of Oxford

Stephen Castles is Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney and Associate Director of the International Migration Institute (IMI), University of Oxford. He works on international migration dynamics, social transformation, and migration and development. His recent books include: The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World (4th Edition, with Mark Miller, 2009); Migration and Development: Perspectives from the South (edited with Raúl Delgado Wise, 2008); and Migration, Citizenship and the European Welfare State: A European Dilemma (with Carl-Ulrik Schierup and Peo Hansen, 2006).

 

 

Presentations from leading academics

Professor Graeme Hugo, University of Adelaide

Graeme Hugo is an ARC Australian Professorial Fellow, Professor of Geography and Director of the National Centre for Social Applications of Geographical Information Systems at the University of Adelaide. He is the author of over three hundred books, articles in scholarly journals and chapters in books, as well as a large number of conference papers and reports. He held an ARC Federation Fellowship between 2002 and 2007 and is currently Chair of the Advisory Committee on Demography and Livability of the Commonwealth Department of Sustainable Environment, Water, Population and Communities. His research interests include: Population trends and their implications in Australia; International migration, its changing patterns, causes and implications for social and economic change; ageing, its changing patterns and implications for social and economic change; and Internal Migration and Urbanization in Australia and Asia.

 

Professor Jock Collins, University of Technology Sydney

Jock Collins is Professor of Social Economics at the University Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia, where he has been teaching since 1977. He is Co-Director of the Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre at UTS. His research interests centre on an interdisciplinary study of immigration and cultural diversity in the economy and society. His recent research has been on Australian immigration, ethnic crime, immigrant and Indigenous entrepreneurship, immigrant youth, ethnic precincts and tourism, multiculturalism, the Cronulla Beach Riots and the social use of ethnic heritage and the built environment. He is the author or co-author of nine books, the most recent of which is Bin Laden in the Suburbs: criminalizing the Arab other (with Scott Poynting, Greg Noble and Paul Tabar). He is also the author of over 100 articles in international and national academic journals and book chapters. His work has been translated in Swedish, French, Japanese, Arabic, Dutch, Chinese, Portuguese, German, Turkish and Italian. Jock Collins has had visiting academic appointments in the UK, Canada, Sweden and the United States and has consulted to the ILO and OECD.

 

Professor Farida Fozdar, University of Western Australia

Farida Fozdar (aka Tilbury) completed her PhD at Victoria University of Wellington, and took up a position in Sociology and Community Development at Murdoch University in 2003. In 2011 she received an ARC Future Fellowship investigating the prevalence and parameters of postnational identities in Australia, which she took up at UWA. Farida uses qualitative and quantitative methods to understand the ways in which racial, ethnic, national and religious identities are constructed, issues around refugee and migrant settlement, and questions of cultural diversity. She has a particular interest in discourse analysis. Farida undertakes social research consultancies including evaluating programs to assist migrants and refugees with re-settlement. She is co-author of Race and Ethnic Relations (2009), published by OUP. Her work has appeared in numerous journals including Nations and Nationalism, Discourse and Society, International Migration Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, The Australian Journal of Politics and History, and Identities.

 

Presentations from members of the ARC Linkage Project research team

Professor Brian Galligan, University of Melbourne

Brian Galligan has been a Professor of Political Science at the University of Melbourne since 1995, and is one of the Joint Chief Investigators on the Project. He was previously a Professor in the Research School of Social Science at the Australian National University. He is a graduate in Economics and Commerce from the University of Queensland, and has a Masters and PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto. Brian's research interests include Australian political history, political economy and public policy; Comparative federalism and constitutional design; Citizenship, multiculturalism, immigration, minorities and rights protection. His publications include two jointly authored books: Australian Citizenship (2004, Melbourne University Press, with Winsome Roberts) and Citizens Without Rights: Aborigines and Australian Citizenship (1997, Cambridge University Press, with John Chesterman).


Dr Millsom Henry-Waring, University of Melbourne

Millsom Henry-Waring is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Melbourne and is one of the joint Chief Investigators on the Project. She joined the University of Melbourne in February 2003. Prior to Australia, Millsom was based in the UK and graduated from Durham and Stirling Universities. She received her PhD at Monash University in 2002, which was awarded the prestigious Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Jean Martin Award for the Best Sociology Thesis in Australia 2003/4. Millsom's research and teaching interests are based around notions of visibility, difference, otherness, blackness and whiteness, specifically in the areas of identity, intimacy, popular culture, new technologies, nationalism and multiculturalism.

 

 

Dr Martina Boese, University of Melbourne

Martina Boese is the Post-Doctoral Fellow on the "Resettling Visible Migrants and Refugees in Rural and Regional Australia" project. Prior to this appointment she held research posts at the University of Vienna, the Centre for Social Innovation, and most recently the Research and Policy Centre of the Brotherhood of St Laurence in Melbourne. She holds Masters degrees in Sociology and Legal Studies from the University of Vienna, and completed her PhD in Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. Martina has contributed to research projects in the areas of employment and self-employment of migrants, refugee settlement and young people’s transition from school to work. Her research foci and publications also cover racism and social exclusion, the cultural industries and third sector agency.

 

 

 

 

Conference enquiries

E: VMR-Project@unimelb.edu.au

T: (03) 9035 4227

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