Lejla Voloder - Insider Research on Migration and Mobility: International Perspectives on Researcher Positioning

INSIDER RESEARCH ON
MIGRATION AND MOBILITY

Series Editor:
Anne J. Kershen, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

Studies in Migration and Diaspora is a series designed to showcase the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary nature of research in this important field. Volumes in the series cover local, national and global issues and engage with both historical and contemporary events. The books will appeal to scholars, students and all those engaged in the study of migration and diaspora. Amongst the topics covered are minority ethnic relations, transnational movements and the cultural, social and political implications of moving from over there, to over here.

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International Perspectives on Researcher Positioning

LEJLA VOLODER
University of South Australia, Australia

AND

LIUDMILA KIRPITCHENKO
Deakin University, Australia

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Insider research on migration and mobility : international perspectives on researcher positioning / [edited] by Lejla Voloder and Liudmila Kirpitchenko.

pages cm. (Studies in migration and diaspora)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-6321-4 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-3155-8877-3 (ebook) ISBN 978-1-3171-1601-1 (epub) 1. Emigration and immigrationResearchMethodology. 2. Emigration and immigrationResearchCase studies. I. Voloder, Lejla, author, editor of compilation. II. Kirpitchenko, Liudmila author, editor of compilation.

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Lejla Voloder

Michele Lobo

Farida Fozdar

Baak Bilecen

Christof Van Mol, Rilke Mahieu, Helene Marie-Lou De Clerck, Edith Piqueray, Joris Wauters, Franois Levrau, Els Vanderwaeren and Joris Michielsen

Hariz Halilovich

Efrat Tzadik-Fallik

Derya Ozkul

Petra Andits

Angela Lehmann

Virginia Mapedzahama and Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo

Liudmila Kirpitchenko

Petra Andits is a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests include transnationalism, diasporas and politics of identity. She has published on Hungarian diasporic discourses in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Basak Bilecen is a postdoctoral researcher in the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany. She is interested in the sociology of migration, social network analysis, transnationalism, cosmopolitanism and social protection. She has published on international PhD student experiences in Transnational Social Review A Social Work Journal and in Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education.

Helene Marie-Lou De Clerck is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies, University of Antwerp, Belgium. She is currently researching the role of aspirations and capabilities in sub-Saharan African migration processes. She recently contributed to an article published in the International Journal of Childrens Rights.

Farida Fozdar is Professor in Anthropology and Sociology at The University of Western Australia. She has published widely in the areas of refugee and migrant settlement, race relations, nationalism and citizenship, predominantly using discourse analysis. In addition to her books, she has published in journals including The Journal of Sociology, Identities, Nations and Nationalism, International Migration Review and Discourse & Society.

Hariz Halilovich is a social anthropologist working as Senior Lecturer at Monash University, Australia. His research interests include forced migration, social memory of politically motivated violence and human rights in post-conflict societies. His articles have appeared in various international journals including Journal of Refugee Studies, International Migration and Ethnologie franaise. His book Places of Pain has recently been published.

Liudmila Kirpitchenko is Research Fellow at the Centre for Citizenship and Globalization, Deakin University, Australia. Liudmilas research interests include academic mobility, intercultural encounters, knowledge creation, cosmopolitanism, social inclusion and qualitative research methods. Among her recent publications are a book Academic Mobility and Intercultural Dialogue in Australia, Canada and Italy and an article on academic hyper-mobility in the Journal of Intercultural Communication.

Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo is Associate Professor of Marketing/Public Relations at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. He has published widely on issues within the broad field of Communication, Media and Public Relations. In recent years, his research and publications have focused more on multiculturalism, issues of identity, belonging, racialization and racism amongst the African Diaspora in Australia. His latest forthcoming publication is on negotiating diasporic black African existence in Australia.

Angela Lehmann was awarded a PhD in Sociology from The Australian National University in 2010. She is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at The University of Xiamen, China. Her forthcoming book