The world in which migrants in general and migrant youth in particular live has changed dramatically over the past two decades; this is due to many factors including hyper-mobility; tectonic advances in ICTs etc… leading to compressed temporal-spatial reconfigurations and manifestations. Today migrants’ lives are, therefore, shaped by complex relational practices that are forged within and across more than one single country, therefore their everyday lived experiences cannot be understood exclusively within the borders of the settlement society. In this ARC DP project, we use international/comparative insights to examine the extent to which migrant youth maintain ties with their multiple (real and imagined) cultural systems and the consequences and meanings of such personal, social and political ties. 

SPEAKER DETAILS

Alfred Deakin Professor Fethi Mansouri is the founding Director of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University. He was awarded in 2013 the UNESCO Chair in comparative research on Cultural Diversity and Social Justice. He is the author/editor of some twenty scholarly books most recently ‘Racism in Australia Today’ (2021, with A. Elias and Y. Paradies) and ‘The Global Politics of Forced Migration’ (2023). He has also published more than 200 academic articles, book chapters and research reports. Professor Mansouri is the lead chief investigator for the ARC discovery project on transcultural capital among migrant youth in the West (2019-23).

RESPONDENTS

• Professor Lori Beaman, Ottawa University 
• Dr Serena Hussain, Centre for Trust Peace and Social Relations, Conventry, UK  

Our speakers will be presenting in-person at Burwood (C2.05.01), but you can also join us via Zoom:

https://deakin.zoom.us/j/88999323385?pwd=V01CYzJkRWtUUHpqNGQwWC9uQlhzdz09 

 Please email ciara.barker@deakin.edu.au for the password.