EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS
Symposium on Transnational People‐
Movement and Social Rights

12‐13 December 2016 | Symposium and PhD Workshop
Hosted by the Sydney Asia Pacific Migration Centre (SAPMiC)
The University of Sydney

Overview
The Sydney Asia Pacific Migration Centre (SAPMiC) at The University of Sydney invites researchers in migration and related studies to submit abstracts for a Symposium on Transnational People‐Movement and Social Rights.Recent developments in human mobility have heightened the importance of migration as a public policy and governance question. The widespread increase in people‐movement has raised major issues for a multitude of migrant categories, and migrants’ rights have come under the spotlight. Whether migration is forced or voluntary, the rights of some migrants are not covered adequately by the country of origin, the
receiving country or transnational governance.

Rights questions are particularly salient in the context of increasing human trafficking and growth in the numbers of people fleeing from war and persecution as refugees, but rights can also be precarious for those who move countries for education, training and employment opportunities. The symposium is a forum for discussion of migrants’ rights which are uncertain, endangered or in question. We invite researchers working in this field to submit an abstract for the symposium. Of particular interest are papers concerning the following topics:
• Migrant rights in the legal, economic and social domains
• The life‐situations faced by migrants of any category whose rights are in question
• How policy, regulation and governance currently operate in one or more nation states, or on a transnational or global basis
• How policy, regulation and governance might better address migrants’ rights at national,
transnational, regional and global levels

Submissions
Abstracts of up to (but no longer than) 200 words should be sent to [email protected] by the 25th of August 2016. The authors of accepted abstracts will be asked to submit a full written copy of their paper (6000 words in length) to the same email address by the 28th of November 2016. Written papers will be peer‐reviewed for inclusion in a special issue of a prominent international journal and/or an edited book.
A PhD workshop, facilitated by internationally‐renowned migration scholars, will be held in the afternoon of the second day of the symposium. PhD students from any university who are interested in participating in the workshop should submit a 200 word description of their doctoral research to [email protected] by the 25th of August 2016. For up‐to‐date info – including keynote speakers – please visit the SAPMiC news and events page:
https://sydney.edu.au/arts/asia‐pacific‐migration‐centre/news_events/events.shtml

Convened by Associate Professor Gaby Ramia and Professor Nicola Piper