WORKSHOP
Nations of Immigrants: Australia and the USA
19–21 October 2008
Monash Prato Centre, Italy

It is 15 years since the publication of the landmark book Nations of Immigrants (edited by Jupp and Freeman, OUP, 1993). Over that time, much has changed in terms of immigration policy in receiving countries such as Australia and the USA.

The Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements and the University of Texas in Austin have organised a workshop that focuses on comparing American and Australian immigration policy developments, experiences and challenges in each country over the past 15 years. This workshop will bring together international scholars at the Monash Centre in Prato, and research from the project will be published in a book edited by Professors Gary Freeman and John Higley of Texas, Dr James Jupp of the ANU and Professor John Nieuwenhuysen Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements .


CONFERENCE
Integration Futures
22–24 October 2008
Monash Prato Centre, Italy
www.integrationfutures.com

Following two highly successful conferences, ‘Immigration Futures' (2004) and ‘Multicultural Futures' (2006), ‘Integration Futures' will highlight the challenges to cohesion and integration in societies, especially in education, the media, economic and workplace inequality, and policies for inclusiveness.

It is organised and sponsored as a partnership between International Metropolis Project (Canada), the Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements and the Australian Multicultural Foundation (Australia) and with co-operation from the Centre of Migration Policy and Society at Oxford University (UK).


WORKSHOP
Social inclusion: The Chinese and Italian Communities in Prato
27 October 2008
Monash Prato Centre, Italy

A one-day academic conference organised by Monash University professors Russell Smyth from the Business and Economics faculty, Graeme Johanson, director, Centre for Community Networking Research, and Annamaria Pagliaro, director, Monash Prato.

The workshop will be an opportunity to hear and discuss research findings from the groundbreaking study of the Chinese communities in Prato. The project examined the work choices, image and perceptions in the media and in the community, uptake of new communication options, issues of identity and integration and other factors affecting the expatriate Chinese community in Prato. This workshop will be of great interest to academics, policy-makers and NGO representatives from Italy, China and Australia. Those attending ‘Integration Futures' are encouraged to attend this workshop as a localised case study on cohesion and integration.


CONFERENCE
Fifth Diversity Matters Conference: Diasporas in the Commonwealth
19–20 November 2008
Monash Malaysia
www.diversitymatters2008.com

The Fifth Diversity Matters Conference is organised by the Australian Multicultural Foundation, the Commonwealth Foundation, the Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements and The Statesman. Hosted by the Monash University Malaysian campus, this conference will consist of plenary sessions and workshops to establish the diasporas in the Commonwealth and investigate the following: identity and integration; community and political participation; the new environment; the politics of sending and receiving countries; and other issues.


SYMPOSIUM
Southern Worlds: South Africa and Australia Compared
25–27 November 2008
Monash South Africa
www.southernworlds.com

The first of its kind, this international symposium, hosted by the Monash University South Africa campus in Johannesburg, will cover themes including the historical relationship between Australia and South Africa, co-operation and trade between the two economies, population movement and multiculturalism in each country. Keynote speakers include Jim Davidson, Bhadra Ranchod, Norman Etherington, Jonathan Hyslop, Sipho Seepe, and Marilyn Lake. The conference will feature an optional tour of the Constitutional Courts and the township of Soweto.