New Publication: Migration, Education and Translation
We are delighted to announce that Migration, Education and Translation, an edited volume emerging from our 2017 symposium, will be published soon. Edited by our Associate Directors, Professor Henry Johnson and Dr Vivienne Anderson, this multidisciplinary collection examines the connections between education, migration and translation across school and higher education sectors, and a broad range of socio-geographical contexts.
Organised around the themes of knowledge, language, mobility, and practice, it brings together studies from around the world to offer a timely critique of existing practices that privilege some ways of knowing and communicating over others. With attention to issues of internationalisation, forced migration, minorities and indigenous education, this volume asks how the dominance of English in education might be challenged, how educational contexts that privilege bi- and multi-lingualism might be re-imagined, what we might learn from existing educational practices that privilege minority or indigenous languages, and how we might exercise ‘linguistic hospitality’ in a world marked by high levels of forced migration and educational mobility. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in education, migration and intercultural communication.
As well as chapters from the editors, the volume includes contributions from the following staff, postgraduate students, affiliates and Visiting Scholars of the Centre for Global Migrations: Dr Rachel Raffery, Dr Naoko Inoue, Dr Tiffany Cone, and Professor Alison Phipps. Congratulations everyone.
Further details are available here.
2019 De Carle Lecture Series: Talk 7
Free Public Lecture
‘Idioms of Distress: Well-being and Mental Resilience in Displaced Peoples, Refugee Populations and Global Mental Health’
Professor Alison Phipps
University of Glasgow
Thursday 28 November 2019, 5.15pm
Castle 1 Lecture Theatre, University of Otago
Please join us for the final talk of the 2019 De Carle Distinguished Lecture Series, co-hosted with the Centre for International Health, the Dunedin School of Medicine, and the Otago Medical School.
This lecture will present work from four contexts internationally where psychotherapeutic access to trauma services is non-existent but other resources are marshalled by affected populations – Ghana, Gaza, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Focusing on migratory languages and arts, it demonstrates how global mental health frameworks may be expanded.
Global Migrations 2019 Public Lecture Series Talk 5: The Scottish Role in Developing the Ceylon Tea Enterprise
Free Public Lecture
‘The Scottish Role in Developing the Ceylon Tea Enterprise’
PROFESSOR ANGELA MCCARTHY
University of Otago
Sunday 17 November 2019, 2pm
Toitū Otago Settlers Museum
Please join us for the last talk in our 2019 Global Migrations Public Lecture Series when our director, Professor Angela McCarthy, discusses the Scottish influence on the development of the Ceylon tea enterprise.
The talk will chart the role of Scots in the development of Ceylon tea, especially the influence of James Taylor, renowned in Sri Lanka today as the ‘father of the Ceylon tea enterprise’. What factors gave Scots an edge in the plantation economy of Ceylon, and what is the legacy of that influence today?
Global Migrations 2019 Public Lecture Series Talk 4: Educational Outcomes for Former Refugees in New Zealand
Free Public Lecture
‘A Fair Go? Educational Outcomes for Former Refugees in New Zealand’
DR RACHEL RAFFERTY
University of Otago
Sunday 20 October 2019, 2pm
Toitū Otago Settlers Museum
Please join us for the fourth talk in our 2019 Global Migrations Public Lecture Series when our member Dr Rachel Rafferty discusses the educational outcomes for former refugees in New Zealand.
This talk presents evidence on how refugee background students are doing in New Zealand’s education system, and makes suggestions for offering more targeted support that could enhance the rates of academic success for these young people.
