Addressing the Challenges of Migrant Elder Care Workshop
Workshop
‘Addressing the Challenges of Migrant Elder Care’
Friday 13 July 2018, 9.30-4pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
This one-day workshop, co-hosted with the Collaboration of Ageing Research Excellence, brings together academics, practitioners and the general public to address the challenges of migrant elder care.
The workshop will comprise formal presentations in the morning with break-out brainstorming sessions in the afternoon.
Our speakers are:
- Fr Michael Hishon (Chaplain of Little Sisters of the Poor rest home and hospital)
- Beryl Lee (Dunedin Multi Ethnic Council)
- Dr Liangni Sally Liu (Massey University)
- Esther Ngocha-Chaderopa (Rotorua Institute of Technology and University of Otago)
- Robyn Pask (Chief Executive, Interpreting New Zealand)
Lunch and morning and afternoon tea will be provided. As numbers are limited, we require advance registration. Further details can be found on our website. Our workshop poster is available here: 2018 migrant elder care poster.
Voices from Asia: Narratives of Migrant and Refugee Women in Higher Education
Free Public Lecture
‘Voices from Asia: Narratives of Migrant and Refugee Women’
Dr Tiffany Cone
Asian University for Women
Thursday 2 August 2018, 12.30-1.30pm
Dunningham Suite, Dunedin Public Library
The Asian University for Women (AUW) in Chittagong, Bangladesh is currently home to approximately 700 young women from 15 different countries throughout Asia including Afghanistan, Syria, Pakistan, Palestine, Vietnam, Myanmar, India, Nepal, Bangladesh and China. AUW was originally established to provide access to higher education for young women from impoverished families and/or war-torn countries throughout the region.
The majority of the students are thus funded on scholarships provided by outside donor organisations. This talk introduces the institute and shares some student narratives from amongst this diverse and unique student body, exploring women’s motivations for studying in Bangladesh and their plans for the future. In so doing, it explores questions of identity formation, belonging, and hope in the face of challenging circumstances.
As well as offering an insight into the development of new ‘knowledge diasporas’, it considers how the women’s narratives challenge current understandings of higher education internationalisation – as a market-driven one-way flow of people from the Global South to the Global North.
Migration, Education and Translation – call for chapters
MIGRATION, EDUCATION AND TRANSLATION:
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Human Mobility and Cultural Encounters
Collection of peer-reviewed essays edited by Vivienne Anderson & Henry Johnson (Centre for Global Migrations, University of Otago)
This multidisciplinary collection of essays will examine the connections between education, migration and translation. The editors welcome chapter proposals on the following topics (other topics will be given due consideration):
- The translation of ideas in educational contexts
- Education and communication beyond language
- Intercultural communication in education
- Untranslatability
- “Otherness” and education
- Colonial and postcolonial perspectives
- Language survival and maintenance
- Minority and endangered languages
- Linguistic loss
- Linguistic imperialism
- Linguistic hospitality
- Bilingual education
- Language teaching and language learning
- Critical perspectives on education
- Power, hegemony, education and language
- Internationalisation and education
- Forced migrations and education
- Educational access
- Multilingual research and writing
- Translanguaging and bi/multilingual learning strategies
- Linguistic translation in education
- Compulsory education and language
- Resilience in education
Timeline:
250-word abstracts by 18 June 2018 to henry.johnson@otago.ac.nz
Please include a short bio of about 150 words.
Proposals will be reviewed by 15 July 2018.
Chapters (6000 words including references and footnotes) submitted by 15 November 2018.
A PDF with further details can be viewed here.migration education cfp book (66KB)
