<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><p style="line-height:1.65em;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:'Open Sans',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><strong>Transient Migration in the Asia-Pacific: Identities, Social Networks and Media</strong></p><p style="line-height:1.65em;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:'Open Sans',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><strong>12 November 2015</strong></p><p style="line-height:1.65em;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:'Open Sans',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><strong>RMIT University, Melbourne</strong></p><p style="line-height:1.65em;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:'Open Sans',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><strong><em>Call for Papers</em></strong></p><p style="line-height:1.65em;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:'Open Sans',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"> ‘Transient Migration in the Asia-Pacific’ is a symposium supported by the Australian Research Council and hosted by RMIT University. Temporary migration is increasingly part of everyday life in the 21<span style="font-size:10.5px;line-height:0;vertical-align:baseline">st</span> century. The global, transient and circular flows of people for work and study are, for instance, part of our quotidian encounters and accepted practice in contemporary societies. In the Asia-Pacific, the movement of both skilled and unskilled labour and the growing number of students from within and outside the region has become commonplace. These migrant flows and the cultures of mobility pose interesting questions about the maintenance and formation of the identities and social networks of transients especially in the age of global media and communication. What kinds of identities and social networks are maintained, created and/or renewed while in transience? How does consumption and engagement with the media (including communication and social media) affect these processes? How important are home-based and host-based identities, social networks and media to transient migrants? How significant are identities and social networks formed by individuals in transience? Finally, in what ways do identities, social networks and media facilitate, hinder or further return to the homeland and future mobility?</p><p style="line-height:1.65em;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:'Open Sans',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;margin-left:5.65pt">Individual papers and panels may include but are not restricted to case studies, theoretical developments and historical studies on the following themes:</p><ul style="color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:'Open Sans',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17.5px"><li>Adapting to everyday life in transience</li><li>Cultures of transience</li><li>Connections/Disconnections made</li><li>Community(s) formed</li><li>Language(s) and discourse(s) of transience</li><li>Future aspirations and mobilities</li><li>Use and value of media and communication technologies</li></ul><p style="line-height:1.65em;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:'Open Sans',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Selected papers will be included in a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal.</p><p style="line-height:1.65em;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:'Open Sans',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Registration for the event is <em>FREE</em> and takes place right after the <em>Race, Mobility and Imperial Networks: Charting the Transnational Asia-Pacific World, 1800-2015</em> conference, also held at RMIT University.</p><p style="line-height:1.65em;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:'Open Sans',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></p><table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px;width:914px;margin-bottom:1em;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:'Open Sans',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17.5px"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:20px;width:308px"><p style="line-height:1.65em"><strong>Confirmed Speakers:</strong></p><p style="line-height:1.65em">Prof. Kirpal Singh (Singapore Management University)</p><p style="line-height:1.65em">Prof. Supriya Singh (RMIT University)</p><p style="line-height:1.65em">A/Prof. Shanton Chang (University of Melbourne)</p><p style="line-height:1.65em">A/Prof. Fran Martin (University of Melbourne)</p></td><td style="padding:20px;width:308px"><p style="line-height:1.65em"><strong>Please submit abstracts and panels for review to:</strong></p><p style="line-height:1.65em"><a href="mailto:transmigrant2015@gmail.com">transmigrant2015@gmail.com</a></p><p style="line-height:1.65em"><strong>By: 5 March 2015</strong></p><p style="line-height:1.65em"><br></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="line-height:1.65em;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:'Open Sans',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><strong>Conference Convenor:</strong></p><p style="line-height:1.65em;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:'Open Sans',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Dr Catherine Gomes (RMIT University)</p><p style="line-height:1.65em;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:'Open Sans',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><strong>Secretariat:</strong></p><p style="line-height:1.65em;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:'Open Sans',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Dr Dora Constantinidis (RMIT University) </p><p style="line-height:1.65em;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:'Open Sans',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><strong>Website: <a href="http://transientmigrants.butterpaper.com/2015-symposium/">http://transientmigrants.butterpaper.com/2015-symposium/</a></strong></p></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif">Dr Catherine Gomes<br>Senior Research Fellow </font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif">Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow<br><br>School of Media and Communication<br>RMIT University<br>GPO Box 2476, Melbourne, VIC, 3001<br>Australia<br>Room: 9.4.26 (city campus)<br><br>tel: + 61 3 99255068<br>fax: + 61 3 99259730<br>email: <a href="mailto:catherine.gomes@rmit.edu.au" target="_blank">catherine.gomes@rmit.edu.au</a></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">staff website: <a href="http://www1.rmit.edu.au/staff/catherinegomes" target="_blank">http://www1.rmit.edu.au/staff/catherinegomes</a></font></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Transient Migrant project website: <a href="http://transientmigrants.butterpaper.com/" target="_blank">http://transientmigrants.butterpaper.com/</a></span><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br><br>CRICOS Provider Code: 00122A</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">This message contains privileged and confidential information intended for the use only of the addressee named above. 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