International Conference
Migrant Labour in Southeast Asia:
Needed, Not Wanted
Faculty of Economics, Business and Law
The University of New England,
Armidale, Australia
1-3 December 2003
PROGRAMME & ABSTRACTS (Click on links)
Monday, 1 December 2003 - Morning
8.15-9.00 Registration
9.00-9.30 Opening Ceremony
Official Opening & Book Launch by Professor Ingrid Moses,
Vice-Chancellor & President, University of New England
9.30-10.15 KEYNOTE PAPER 1 (Chair: Ben Tipton)
MORRIS-SUZUKI, Tessa (Australian National University)
Changing Border Control Regimes and their Impact on Migration in Asia [Abstract]
10.15-10.45 MORNING COFFEE/TEA
10.45-11.30 KEYNOTE PAPER 2 (Chair: Ben Tipton)
KAUR, Amarjit (University of New England)
Order and Disorder Across the Border: Labour Migration in Asia [Abstract]
Session 1: Globalisation and Migration
11.30-12.00 LAMBERT, Bruce (Stockholm School of Economics)
Attracting Mobile Experts: Global Competition For Migrants [Abstract]
12.00-12.30 MANNING, Chris (Australian National University)
Facilitating Temporary Labour Migration in Southeast Asia: What Role Do International and Regional Economic Agreements Play? [Abstract]
12.30-1.30 LUNCH
Monday, 1 December 2003 - Afternoon
1.30-2.00 JACKSON, Kenneth (University of Auckland)
Migrant Labour and Remittances [Abstract]
2.00-2.30 ESMAEILI, Hossein and KENNEDY, Aileen (University of New England)
The International Legal Framework Relating to Human Smuggling and Trafficking For the
Purpose of Sex Exploitation and Slavery [Abstract]
Session 2: Migrant Labour in Malaysia
2.30-3.00 TURNER, Donna (Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University)
The Role of Migrant Labour in Malaysia’s Regime of Labour Control [Abstract]
3.00-3.30 WONG, Diana (IKMAS, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia)
Illegal migration from Indonesia to Peninsular Malaysia [Abstract]
3.30-4.00 AFTERNOON COFFEE/TEA
Session 3: Indonesian Labour Migration
4.00-4.30 FORD, Michele (CAPSTRANS, University of Wollongong)
After Nunukan: Recent Developments in the Regulation of Labour Migration from Indonesia
to Malaysia [Abstract]
4.30-5.00 HOSEN, Muhamad (KPP IPB, Bogor, Indonesia)
Indonesian Labour Migration: Procedures and Processes [Abstract]
6.30 pm Barbecue at Mary White College
Tuesday, 2 December 2003 - Morning
8.30-9.00 Castle, R., HAGAN, James, and Wells, A. (CAPSTRANS, University of Wollongong)
Migration, Free and Unfree, to the Tea Gardens of Assam, 1860 – 1940 [Abstract]
9.00-9.30 WRIGHT, Denis (University of New England)
Women and Child Trafficking in South Asia [Abstract]
9.30-10.00 VERMA, Neelmani (Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, India)
Globalization and Migration of Women Workers: Some Indian Scenarios [Abstract]
10.00-10.30 MORNING COFFEE/TEA
10.30-11.00 GAUR, Seema (Planning Commission, Government of India/Institute of South Asian Studies, Singapore)
Foreign Migrant Labour from India and the Globalization Strategy of Singapore [Abstract]
11.00-11.30 GAMAGE, Siri (University of New England)
Selling Labour and Compromising on Identity: Social Construction of Immigrant Identity and Culture in Australia [Abstract]
11.30-12.00 GURUNG, Ganesh (Nepal Institute of Development Studies)
Nepali Labour in Foreign Countries: Uninvited Guests [Abstract]
12.00-1.30 LUNCH
Tuesday, 2 December 2003 - Afternoon
Session 6: Migrant Labour in Thailand
1.30-2.00 WONGBOONSIN, Patcharawalai (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
Migrant Labour in Thailand [Abstract]
2.00-2.30 CHALAMWONG, Yongyuth (Thailand Development Research Institute Foundation)
The needs and wants of foreign laborers in the agricultural sector in Thailand [Abstract]
2.30-3.00 NUMNAK, Gorawut (University of New England)
Skilled Migrant Labour in Thailand [Abstract]
3.00-3.30 AFTERNOON COFFEE/TEA
Session 7: Southeast Asian/East Asian Labour Migration
3.30-4.00 GRUNDY-WARR, Carl and TOYOTA, Mika (National University of Singapore)
‘State-less’ and ‘Place-less’: Labour Migration within the Geopolitical Triangle of Yunnan, Burma, Laos and Thailand [Abstract]
4.00-4.30 HEWISON, Kevin (Southeast Asian Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong)
Working in Hong Kong: The Experience of Thai Migrant Workers [Abstract]
7.00pm CONFERENCE DINNER
Booloominbah, UNE
Wdnesday, 3 December 2003 – Morning
9.00-9.30 BALL, Rochelle (The University of New South Wales)
Racialised Hierarchies of Labour Rights: Understanding the Global Trade of Nurses- the Case
of the Philippines [Abstract]
9.30-10.00 KAUR, Kiranjit (Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia)
Framing of Issues on Migrant Labor in Malaysian Newspapers [Abstract]
10.00-10.30 CRINIS, Vicki (CAPSTRANS, University of Wollongong)
The Devil You Know: Malaysian Perceptions of Foreign Worlers [Abstract]
10.30-11.00 MORNING COFFEE/TEA
11.00-11.30 BUTCHER, Melissa (Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific, University of Sydney)
White-Collar Philippinos: Australian Expatriates in Singapore [Abstract]
11.30-12.00 MON, Myat (Assumption University, Thailand)
Burmese Migrants in Thailand [Abstract]
12.00-1.00 LUNCH
1.00-1.30 FU, Kelly (National University of Singapore)
Understanding Domestic Worker Abuse in Singapore: Cultural Aspects of Exploitation and Abuse [Abstract]
1.30-2.00 PIPER, Nicola (Australian National University)
Regional Perspectives on the 1990 UN Convention on the Rights of All Migrant Workers [Abstract]
2.00-2.20 CONFERENCE SUMMARY (Nicola PIPER)
2.20-2.30 Closing Remarks (Amarjit KAUR)
3.00pm Short Afternoon Excursion to Dangars Gorge & Falls
(for those who have pre-booked)
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