The UWA Mobilities and Belonging
Research Cluster, in association with the Academy of the Social Sciences in
Australia, is proud to present a symposium:
Mobilities
and Belonging Across the Lifecourse
Convenors: Assoc Prof Martin Forsey, Assoc Prof
Farida Fozdar, Prof Loretta Baldassar, Prof Johanna Wyn
The purpose of the symposium is to draw on emerging knowledge about mobilities, emplacement, displacement and belonging within the social sciences to create dialog between academics, practitioners and policy makers that will extend this knowledge and make it accessible for policy-oriented research and development. As one of the world’s most mobile nations, Australia offers an important arena for this work.
Key themes of this symposium include:
• Life-course (and generational) aspects of mobility, impact of life stage on movement and settlement patterns, drivers and motivations
• Economic and social significance of transnational and intra-national migration
• Social effects of Australia’s shift towards temporary, guest worker policies
• Social class and social movement – who is moving, from where, to where, why?
• Gendered movements – shifting roles in workplaces, families, social life etc.
• Educational mobility – the links between physical movement and social mobility; internationalisation of education.
• Immobilities – restrictions on movement, detention, nationalism.
• Factors (and policy) facilitating or impeding practices and processes of transnational and multilocal relationships.
Key themes of this symposium include:
• Life-course (and generational) aspects of mobility, impact of life stage on movement and settlement patterns, drivers and motivations
• Economic and social significance of transnational and intra-national migration
• Social effects of Australia’s shift towards temporary, guest worker policies
• Social class and social movement – who is moving, from where, to where, why?
• Gendered movements – shifting roles in workplaces, families, social life etc.
• Educational mobility – the links between physical movement and social mobility; internationalisation of education.
• Immobilities – restrictions on movement, detention, nationalism.
• Factors (and policy) facilitating or impeding practices and processes of transnational and multilocal relationships.
Participants:
Prof Loretta Baldassar, UWA; Assoc Prof Donella Caspersz, UWA; Prof Anthony Elliott, Hawke Research Institute; Assoc Prof Martin Forsey, UWA; Assoc Prof Farida Fozdar, UWA; Dr Andrzej
Gwizdalski, UWA; Assoc Prof Anita Harris, Monash University; Prof Jane Kenway, Monash University; Dr Mitchell Low, UWA; Dr Amie Matthews, U. Western Sydney; Assoc Prof Sarah Prout, UWA; Prof Johanna Wyn, U. Melbourne.
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The symposium is featured as part of UWA Research Week
Drawing: "1-100 Continuum" (2012), by Jill H. Andrews
The symposium is featured as part of UWA Research Week
Drawing: "1-100 Continuum" (2012), by Jill H. Andrews