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Decentering knowledge in researching migration from the Global South: A one-day Workshop

Date and Time

Saturday, June 24, 2023, 9:30 AM until 4:30 PM

Location

Mary Glowrey Building 420.2.80 (i.e., building 420, level 2, room 80) at 115 Victoria Road, Fitzroy
https://moovitapp.com/index/en-gb/public_transportation-The_Mary_Glowrey_Building-Melbourne-site_475
building 420, level 2, room 80,115 Victoria Road
Fitzroy, VIC  3605
AUS

Event Contact(s)

Thi Hien T Nguyen

Category

ISA Aligned Event

Registration Info

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About this event

Keynote 1: Migration and (im)mobilities in the Global South

Speaker: Lan Anh Hoang, Associate Professor in Development Studies



Organisation: Deputy Head of School (Teaching and Learning), School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts, the university of Melbourne

Email: lahoang@unimelb.edu.au

Short bio: Lan Anh Hoang is Associate Professor in Development Studies, the School of Social and Political Sciences, the University of Melbourne. Her research has been published in many prestigious journals (e.g., Gender and Society, Gender, Place and Culture, Global Networks, Population, Space and Place, Geoforum, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Asian Studies Review, and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies). She is author of ‘Vietnamese migrants in Russia: mobility in times of uncertainty’ (Amsterdam University Press 2020) and co-editor of ‘Transnational Labour Migration, Remittances, and the Changing Family in Asia' (2015) and ‘Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia’ (2019). Lan’s current project examines brokerage and migrant networks in the Vietnam-Australia migration corridor.

The link: https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/350058-lan-anh-hoang



Keynote 2. Contesting the Uncontestable: Migration Research through Non-Western Concepts

Speaker: Xiaoying Qi, Associate Professor


Organisation: School of Arts and the Research Centre for Social and Political Change, Australian Catholic University

Email: Xiaoying.Qi@acu.edu.au

Short bio: Xiaoying Qi is Associate Professor of Sociology, Australian Catholic University. Her publications include Remaking Families in Contemporary China (Oxford University Press 2021) and Globalized Knowledge Flows and Chinese Social Theory (Routledge 2014), as well as numerous articles in sociology and allied journals, including American Journal of Cultural Sociology, British Journal of Sociology, Current Sociology, International Sociology, Journal of Sociology, Sociological Review, and Sociology. Xiaoying’s current research is focused on aspects of economic relations and reconceptualization of core sociological properties of economic life.

The link: Xiaoying Qi | ACU Researcher


Keynote 3: Future research collaboration on Migration between the Global North and Global South: Lessons from the Past

Speaker: Professor S Irudaya Rajan, Chairperson
Organisation: International Institute of Migration and Development (IIMAD)

Email: rajan@iimad.org

Short bio: S. Irudaya Rajan is Chair of the International Institute for Migration and Development, and also chair of the KNOMAD (The Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development) World Bank working group on internal migration and urbanization. Prior to this, he was Professor at the Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Kerala. He has published in international journals on social, economic, demographic, psychological and political implications of migration on individuals, community, economy and society. He is the editor of the annual series India Migration Report since 2010 and South Asia Migration Report since 2017 published by Routledge and Founding Editor in Chief, Migration and Development.

The link: S. Irudaya Rajan - IIMAD | The International Institute for Migration & Development

This event is being supported by the Melbourne Convention Bureau: