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Events in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy

Sociology and Social Policy Seminars

 

Department of Sociology and Social Policy 2008 Seminar Program.

Friday 29th August 9-4 pm
Room 148 RC Mills Building, A26
University of Sydney

         SEMINAR PROGRAMME
    MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT

9.15 Welcome 
9.30  Prof. Stephen Castles: 'Migration and Development: What comes first?'
Visiting Professor, Dept of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Sydney International Migration Institute, James Martin 21st Century School. Depatment of International Development, University of Oxford 
10.15  Prof. Graeme Hugo: 'Best Practice in Labour Migration for Development: A Perspective from Asia and the Pacific'
University Professorial Research Fellow, Professor of Geography and Director of the National Centre for Social Applications of Geographical Information Systems at the University of Adelaide 
11.00  Coffee Break 
11.15  Prof. John Connell, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney
Jeremy Hammond, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney
 'The new Australian guestworkers scheme: its early ramifications in Vanuatu' 
11.55  Dr Stuart Rosewarne, Department of Political Economy
'International migration and globalisation's fourth pillar: accumulation agendas vis-à-vis development' 
12.35  Lunch 
1.30 

Dr Sheleyah Courtney, Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney
'Remittances for Rama: Temple Building as Development of a Hindu Nation-State.'

2.10  A/Prof. Robert van Krieken, Department of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Sydney 
'Becoming a land of arrival: migration and the crisis in Dutch liberalism'
 2.50

Prof. Michael Humphrey, Department of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Sydney
'Megacities and Migration: urbanisation with and without development'

3.30  Overview 

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