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American Migrants in Australia Symposium<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span>RMIT University<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span>1<sup>st</sup> November 2018<span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>Call for Papers:<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>‘Real and Digital Experiences: Latin American Migrants
in Australia’ is a symposium hosted at RMIT University support by the Migration
and Mobility Lab (Digital Ethnography Research Centre, DERC) and the School of
Global, Urban and Social Sciences, RMIT<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>The 2018 Latin American symposium will address cultural, social, gender,
education and labour themes related to the contemporary flows of people from various
Latin American countries (Mexico and the nations in Central and South America and
the Caribbean) to Australia. It will investigate both the real and digital
experiences of Latin American permanent and transient migrants as they
negotiate everyday life in Australia. According to the most recent ABS census
(2016), Australia has a population from Latin American countries of approximately
136,000 people. Latin American migration to Australia has taken place in
different waves with different motivations.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>The majority of Latin American migrants arrived in Australia between the
1970s and 1990s. This was the first significant wave of Latin Americans and who
entered Australia for humanitarian, political and economic reasons. Some Latin
Americans who entered Australia during this period came as part of family
reunions. This wave of migrants were permanent settlers and who have in one way
or another integrate in the Australian society. <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>Currently most Latin American immigrants who make up the second wave,
are a mixture of permanent settlers and transient migrants. The outward bound Latin
American movement of both skilled and unskilled labour and the growing number
of international students from within and outside the region has become
commonplace.<span> </span><span> </span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>This migration and flows of mobility raise interesting questions as to
how Latin Americans across both waves adapt, integrate or transit in a new and
far away country other than their own? How are their identities, languages and
cultures maintained or negotiated? <span> </span>How are
their different race, gender and cultural identities shaped or constructed by Australian
society? Finally, how do Latin American migrants confront racism? <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>Based on these questions, we invite abstracts from academic fields
including sociology, sociolinguistics, migration and mobility studies, education,
cultural studies, anthropology and communication to engage in themes that may
include but are not restricted to:<span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span>Labour
Workers and Travel mobilities (Backpackers) and their negotiation of work and
life in Australia<span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span>International
Students and their aspirations and mobilities<span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span>Performance
of nationality, gender, race and culture in real and digital worlds<span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span>Integration
and adaptation of Latin American permanent refugees and migrants<span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span>Racism and
Social relation within the host culture<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>Selected abstracts will be invited to submitted full articles to be
peer-reviewed to be published in <i>Transitions:
Journal of Transient Migration</i>. <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span>Cost: $25.00 (catering)<span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span>Timeline:<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>Abstracts of 200 words – 13 April 2018 <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>Notification of acceptance of abstracts – 30 April 2018<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>Completed articles of 8000 words (including references) - <span> </span>24 October 2018<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>Please send abstracts to Dr. Glenda Mejía (e-mail: </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:glenda.mejia@rmit.edu.au)" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:rgb(0,112,192)">glenda.mejia@rmit.edu.au)</span></a></span><span style="color:rgb(0,112,192)"> </span><span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="ES">Convenors: <span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="ES">Dr. Glenda Mejía (e-mail: </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:glenda.mejia@rmit.edu.au)" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span lang="ES" style="color:rgb(0,112,192)">glenda.mejia@rmit.edu.au)</span></a></span><span lang="ES" style="color:rgb(0,112,192)"> </span><span lang="ES"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>Assoc. Professor Catherine Gomes (e-mail: </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:catherine.gomes@rmit.edu.au)" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:rgb(0,112,192)">catherine.gomes@rmit.edu.au)</span></a></span><span><span></span></span></p>
<br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif"><i>Associate Professor Catherine Gomes</i><br></font><i><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">School of Media and Communication</span><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></i></div><div dir="ltr"><i><font face="georgia, serif">RMIT University<br>124 La Trobe Street</font></i></div><div dir="ltr"><i><font face="georgia, serif">Melbourne, Victoria 3000<br>Australia<br>Room: </font><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"> 5<font face="georgia, serif">.2.3</font></span><font face="georgia, serif"> (city campus)</font></i></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif"><i><br>tel: + 61 3 9925 5068<br>fax: + 61 3 99259730<br>email: <a href="mailto:catherine.gomes@rmit.edu.au" target="_blank">catherine.gomes@rmit.edu.au</a></i></font></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="http://www1.rmit.edu.au/staff/catherinegomes" target="_blank">Staff website</a></font></div><div><br></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Research Lab Leader, <a href="http://digital-ethnography.com/portfolio-posts/migration-and-digital-media-lab/" target="_blank">Migration and Digital Media</a>, <a href="http://digital-ethnography.com/" target="_blank">Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC)</a></font></div><div><br></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Founding Editor, <a href="http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=252/view,page=0/" target="_blank">Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration</a></font></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><a href="http://translatingimpermanence.org/" target="_blank">Transient Migrant project website</a> (Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship)</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif"><b>Recent books </b></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9789811303319" target="_blank">Siloed Diversity: Transnational Migration, Digital Media and Social Networks (forthcoming)</a></font></div><div><a href="https://www.rowmaninternational.com/buy-books/product-details/?productId=3-156-3ad7333d-8296-45dc-91de-c70c9714fe65" style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:georgia,serif" target="_blank"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Transnational Migrations in the Asia-Pacific: Transformative Experiences in the Age of Digital Media (</span></font><i style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:georgia,serif">forthcoming</i></a>)<br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="http://www.springer.com/us/book/9789811016387" target="_blank">Transient Mobility and Middle Class Identity: Media and Migration in Australia and Singapore</a>, </font></span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-MY" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="http://www.springer.com/in/book/9789811025990" target="_blank">International Student Connectedness and Identity: Transnational Perspectives</a></font></span></span></div><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><a href="http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319461083" target="_blank">Quality Assurance in Asia-Pacific Universities: Implementing Massification in Higher Education</a></font></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="http://www.anthempress.com/the-asia-pacific-in-the-age-of-transnational-mobility" style="font-size:small" target="_blank">The Asia Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility: The Search for Community and Identity on and through Social Media</a><br></font></div><div><br></div><font face="georgia, serif"><b>Recent Journal Articles and Chapters</b></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Educational-Reciprocity-and-Adaptivity-International-Students-and-Stakeholders/Ata-Tran-Liyanage/p/book/9781138707399" target="_blank">Navigating through the hostility: international students in Singapore </a></font></span><br></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="https://sty.presswarehouse.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=525678" target="_blank">International Student Identity and the Digital Environment</a></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1129166.pdf" target="_blank">Digital journeys: A perspective on understanding the digital experiences of international students</a>, </font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font><div><font face="georgia, serif">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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