ASSA/UNESCO Australia Workshop 2006 [ 28-29 November 2006 – UNE]
Workshop Title: MIGRATION CHALLENGES IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Convenors:
Professor Amarjit Kaur (UNE) & Professor Tessa Morris-Suzuki (ANU) –– Convenors, Asia Pacific Migration Research Forum Network
Professor Ian Metcalfe - Deputy Director, Asia Centre, UNE
DESCRIPTION
One of the biggest challenges facing our region in the 21st century is the large-scale cross-border movement of people. Key issues include international labour migration; migration flows provoked by political instability and natural disasters, other refugee flows, human trafficking and people smuggling. The Workshop will examine these and related security issues and border-management strategies of major states in the region, in the face of intensified transnational economic and social processes and the expanding global governance regime. Specifically, the Workshop will focus on policy responses to migrants and refugees and migration processes at the border and across borders, against the backdrop of four major challenges:
• The regulation of populations and cross-border movements;
• Security issues;
• International agreements; and
• New norms of global governance developed by regional and international NGOs and other international organisations.
Objectives
The Workshop aims to
• Inform the participants and the wider regional and global audience about the main migration challenges in the Asia-Pacific region
• Contribute at a high level to the debate about globalisation, the cross-border movement of people, and evolving border control regimes at a regional, and from an Asia-Pacific regional perspective
• Provide information to policy makers for future policy development and regional collaboration in the Asia Pacific region
• Provide an input to the Asia Pacific Migration Research Forum Network program; the Asian Studies Association of Australia’s ‘Asia-Pacific Research Futures Network’ objectives and the Malaysia and Singapore Society of Australia’s 2006 Colloquium [ see attachment –MASSA 2006]
• Governance of Migration and Border Controls: Asia-Pacific Trends
• International labour Migration
• Security issues
• Settlement Policies, Transnationalism and Identity
• Forced Migration and Trafficking in persons in the Asia-Pacific Region
PARTICIPANTS AND TENTATIVE PANELS
Panel 1 Presenters
Professor GRAEME HUGO, Federation Fellow – Adelaide (Geography)
[Director of the National Centre for Social Applications of GIS]
‘Migration Challenges in the Asia Pacific Region’
Professor AMARJIT KAUR – UNE (Southeast Asian and Asian Economic History)
‘State Immigration Policies and the Movement of Indian Professionals in the Asia-Pacific Region’
Professor TESSA MORRIS-SUZUKI – ANU ( East Asian History/Economic History)
‘Border Controls and the State’
Panel 2 Presenters
Dr. ASWATINI – LIPI, INDONESIA
Director, Research Center for Population, Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia (LIPI– Indonesian Institute of Sciences)
‘Indonesian Labour Migration’
Dr. IRENE FERNANDEZ – TENAGITA, MALAYSIA
‘ Migrant Workers, Human rights and NGOs’
WAHYU SUSILO – INDONESIA
Program Officer, INFID (International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development) & Indonesian NGO MIGRANT CARE
‘Migrant Workers and Labour Standards in Southeast Asia’
Panel 3 Presenters
Dr. CHRISTINE INGLIS – Sydney (Education)
[Director, Multicultural & Migration Research Centre, RIAP]
‘Multiculturalism confronting middle class transnationalism and terrorist concerns’
Professor VERA MACKIE, Melbourne (History)
'The Embodied Experiences of Migration in the Asia-Pacific Region'
* PETER McCOLL, Director, Asia Bilateral Section, International Cooperation Branch, Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
* TBC
Professor JIM WALMSLEY and Dr. FRAN ROLLEY -UNE (Human and Environmental Studies)
‘A Typology of immigrants to Australia based on socio-economic profile and geographical location’
Panel 4 Presenters
Dr. JOHN FUNSTON – ANU (Executive Director, National Thai Studies Centre)
Security Issues and the State in Southeast Asia
Professor MICHAEL LEIGH, Melbourne (Director, Asia Centre
‘Nation and State in the Asia-Pacific Region’
Dr MUHAMAD HOSEN – State Islamic University of Syarif Hidayatullah, Jakarta, INDONESIA and Executive Director, Centre for Communication for Economic Sharia
‘Islam and Security Issues in Indonesia’
Panel 5 Presenters
(Fr.) DAVID HOLDCROFT SJ , Director, Jesuit Refugee Service (Australia)
‘The Jesuit Refugee Service in the Asia-Pacific: Protection for Displaced Persons’
MS. MELINDA SUTHERLAND, AusAID
‘AusAID and Regional Trafficking in Persons Initiatives in the Asia-Pacific Region’
Dr. DENIS WRIGHT – UNE (South Asian History)
‘Forced Labour Migration and Trafficking of Women in South Asia’
DISCUSSANTS
Professor HOWARD BRASTED – UNE (South Asian History)
Professor IAN METCALFE – UNE (Earth Sciences, Asian Environment and Resource Development) [Director of the UNE research initiative – Environmental and Social Impacts of Resource Development in Asia]
A/Prof. KIRANJIT KAUR – UiTM, MALAYSIA
Dr. NADIRSYAH HOSEN– Queensland (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law)