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VIRTUAL EVENT: Youth mobility in Australia
18 May 2021, 9:00 am–10:00 am
This is the third webinar in the youth mobility series and will focus on contemporary Asia-Australia migration.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Rachel Benchekroun
Presentation
Temporality in Mobile Lives: Contemporary Asia-Australia Migration and Everyday Time
Dr Shanthi Robertson will explore the lives of middleclass Asian young people who arrived in Australia during the first decades of the 21st century on temporary visas.
Drawing on extensive narrative interviews and visual ethnographic material, Shanthi shows how these mobile young people have specific expectations about how their mobility will facilitate their trajectories into adult life - yet these aspirations and imaginaries of transnational mobility play out in diverse and uneven outcomes, particularly in the unfolding of migrants’ biographies over time.
CGY Youth Mobility seminar series
The Centre for Global Youth (CGY) is hosting a series of webinars to explore youth mobility practices in different parts of the world. Over 5 weeks in May and June, the seminars will examine how and why young people become mobile, drawing on the experience of young people in India, China, Australia and the UK.
The events will consider internal mobility, international students, service workers, graduates, and young unaccompanied asylum seekers.
Links
- Centre for Global Youth blog: Youth mobility webinar series week 3: Australia
- Tweet with #YouthMobilities
- Centre for Global Youth
- Department of Education, Practice and Society
Image: Hugo Heimendinger via Pexels
About the Speaker
Shanthi Robertson
Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts and an Institute Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University
Shanthi specialises in migration and diversity, youth studies and urban social change.