#transmigconf
The Symposium will be held on 12th November 2015 at:
RMIT University’s Storey Hall (Auditorium and Conference Rooms 1 & 2)
Please see link below for location:
RMIT City Campus
Papers run for no more than 20 min each with 10 min Q & A at the end of each panel. Abstracts and bios can be downloaded here: Transient Migrant Symposium Abstracts
| 8.15am | Registration and Breakfast | Foyer of Auditorium |
| 8.45am | Welcome: | AuditoriumDr. Cat Gomes |
| 9.00am – 9.45am | Keynote: | AuditoriumProf. Kirpal Singh ‘Identities in Transition: The Challenge of Global Work‘ |
| 9.45am – 10.30am | Keynote: | AuditoriumA/Prof. Fran Martin ‘Media, Place, and National Publics: Chinese International Students in Translocal Networks’ |
| 10.30am – 10.45am | Break | |
| 10.45am – 12.15pm | Parallel Sessions: | Identity, Belonging and Aspirations (Green Brain Conference Room) Chair- Prof. Kirpal Singh |
| Dr. Bernardo Figueiredo, RMIT University ‘Transient skilled migrants: identity construction and inversion of belonging in consumptionscapes‘ |
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| Dr. Rebecca Olive, University of Waikato ‘Moving to the home of cycling: Regional migration and elite sport‘ |
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| Dr. Ly Tran, Deakin University ‘Mere ‘PR hunter’ as an imposed transnational identity and international students’ agency in the migration-education nexus‘ |
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| Dr. Michiel Baas, Asian Research Institute, National University of Singapore ‘‘Middling’ Mobility and the Space In-Between: Professional Migrants from India in Singapore and Australia‘ |
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Methodologies and Mobility (Audditorium) Chair- A/Prof. Shanton Chang |
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| Dr. Susan Leong, Curtin University ‘The Transient Migrant and the Liminal Researcher: Insider-Outsider Migration and Media Research‘ |
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| Ms. Amber Lim and Mr. George Mouratidis, RMIT University ‘Deconstructing binaries through foreign talents’ experience in Singapore‘ |
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| Dr. Glenda Mejia, RMIT University ‘Transient Migration in Australia: Catalans Adapting to Everyday Life in Melbourne‘ |
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| Dr. Peidong Yang, Nanyang Technological University ‘Indian doctors made in China: India-to-China medical educational mobility – preliminary insights and fieldwork reflections‘ |
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| 12.15pm – 1.15pm | Lunch | Foyer of Auditorium |
| 1.15pm – 2.00pm | Keynote: | AuditoriumA/Prof. Shanton Chang ‘Information Across Borders: The Digital Journeys of Transient Migrants’ |
| 2.00pm – 2.45pm | Keynote: | AuditoriumProf. Supriya Singh ‘Communication shapes the value of transnational money‘ |
| 2.45pm – 3.00pm | Break | |
| 3.00pm – 4.30pm | Parallel Sessions: | Mobility and Media and Communication Technologies (Green Brain Conference Room) Chair- A/Prof. Fran Martin |
| Ms. Haifa Binsahl, University of Melbourne ‘Navigating the Social Networks of Saudi Female International Students in Australia’ |
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| Ms. Xinru Chen, RMIT University ‘Reaching Out For a Relationship When Living Overseas’Prof Prof. Sarah Pink, RMIT University‘Digital media and washing machines: student migration, domestic improvision and future lives’ |
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Unskilled and low skilled workers: Home, Belonging and Exploitation (Auditorium) Chair- Prof. Supriya Singh |
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| Ms. Catriona Stevens, University of Western Australia ‘“Now I can never go back”: The unintended permanence of temporary migration for lower income migrants from mainland China’ |
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| Ms. Evelyn Kwok, University Technology Sydney ‘Foreign Domestic Helpers in Hong Kong: Constructing identity by informal place-making’ |
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| A/Prof. Farida Fozdar, University of Western Australia ‘We called for workers but people came’ |
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| 4.30pm – 5.30pm | Panel Discussion: | AuditoriumChair- Prof. Betty Leask, PVC (L&T), LaTrobe University Prof. Kirpal Singh Prof. Supriya Singh A/Prof. Fran Martin A/Prof. Shanton Chang |
| 6.30pm | Symposium Dinner: | Keynotes, speakers and organising committee – Father’s Office (249 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne). A 2 minute walk from Storey Hall. |