Migration
National identity and migration issues within national and global context including immigration and nationalism and the history and politics of race. Migration in the Asia-Pacific region, forced displacement and refugee resettlement.
Faculty Research Focus
- Chinese-Australian Migration
- Multiculuralism
- Anthropology of forced displacement and refugee resettlement
Current Projects
- Unlocking Australia's Chinese archive: the political organisation and social experience of the Chinese Australian community, 1909-1939.
- The transnational history of the Chinese Nationalist Party.
- Homelands.
Research Interests
The Faculty will consider any research topic that interests potential PhD students; however, students will benefit from researching in areas that align with the Faculty’s strengths. Please contact the Faculty to discuss your PhD topic.
Alternatively you may contact one of our academics below to discuss your area of interest.
- Dr Celia McMichael
- Australian immigration - Professor Richard Broome
- Ethnicity - Ms Senem Yekenkurul
- Immigration and nationalism - Dr Gwenda Tavan
- Involuntary and forced displacement - Dr Brooke Wilmsen
- Migration, ethnicity, transnationalism - Dr Helen Lee
- Multiculturalism - Dr Anthony Moran
- Narrative construction of identity - Ms Senem Yekenkurul
- People with a refugee background in regional areas - Dr Pamela Wallace
- Refugee resettlement - Dr Brooke Wilmsen
- Second generation identity - Ms Senem Yekenkurul
- The intersection of identity and language use in immigrant neighbourhoods - Dr Zane Goebel
- Transnational History and Migration - Dr Jennifer Ridden
