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Call for Papers: RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2012, University of Edinburgh, 3-5 July
The Geographies of Graduate Migration and Mobility: dealing with (in)security, uncertainty and globalisation
Sponsored by the Population Geography Research Group
There has been a growing internationalisation of higher education with increasing numbers of people attending university within and beyond their country of origin. At the same time, graduate unemployment is on the rise and migrants experience differential access to labour market opportunity, related to national qualifications frameworks, immigration policies and border security. It is, therefore, necessary to consider the emerging geographies of graduate mobility and migration and how mobility to particular places is encouraged, constrained or inhibited .
This session wishes to engage with the geographies of graduate mobility and migration, both in terms of policy frameworks and at the individual level. The session aims to highlight the role of mobility and migration in the lives of graduates in times of global economic uncertainty. One of the anticipated outcomes of the session is to gain insight and develop a better knowledge of the constraints and opportunities graduates face in pursuit of their life goals.
The session committee invite proposals for papers from those working in or between the fields of Geography, Politics and Migration, Diaspora Studies and Education. Postgraduate students are especially welcome and encouraged to participate. In particular, we are interested in papers addressing the following issues:
* Migration and mobility of graduate students and graduates from A8 countries
* Social and spatial mobility of graduates within European Union and beyond
* Links between highly skilled migration and graduate migration
* Theories of graduate migration and mobility
* Graduate identities in the context of mobility, e.g. the emotional and social constructions of home and belonging, personal transitions through mobility
* Impacts of graduate migration and mobility on host country and homeland contexts, e.g. economic growth, development and security, community integration
* The graduate labour markets within EU and of international contexts
* Graduate career development across the space of their home countries and in wider EU and international contexts
* Graduate migration and mobility in relation to transnationalism and diaspora, and transnational flows, networks and connections
Instructions for Authors
The prospective presenters are asked to submit their paper proposals (please try to keep abstracts down to 250 words) by 20th January 2012 to Aga Szewczyk ([log in to unmask]) and Kate Botterill ([log in to unmask]).
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