Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE150100748
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$336,009.00
Summary
Staggered Pathways: Temporality, Mobility and Asian Temporary Migrants. Migration and mobility between Australia and Asia is becoming more temporary and more fluid. This project aims to investigate the lived experience and the governance of migration flows from Asia to Australia, at local, national and transnational scales. It seeks to analyse and visualise complex migrant journeys across borders and regions, across time and across visa statuses and labour markets. Key research questions include ....Staggered Pathways: Temporality, Mobility and Asian Temporary Migrants. Migration and mobility between Australia and Asia is becoming more temporary and more fluid. This project aims to investigate the lived experience and the governance of migration flows from Asia to Australia, at local, national and transnational scales. It seeks to analyse and visualise complex migrant journeys across borders and regions, across time and across visa statuses and labour markets. Key research questions include how migration policy and migrant's decisions and experiences influence each other, and the effects of new types of mobility in the Asia-Pacific region on both transnationalism and migrant's sense of belonging over time.Read moreRead less
The Maronites of Lebanon: Arab Christians in the Era of ISIS. This project aims to capture ethnographically the way Maronite culture is evolving in response to regional pressures. The Maronites of Lebanon were the dominant community of modern Lebanon. Since the end of the civil war (1975–90), they have lost their economic power to the Sunnis associated with the Gulf capitalism that has rebuilt Lebanon. They have also lost their military and political power to the Shi'a who have accumulated milit ....The Maronites of Lebanon: Arab Christians in the Era of ISIS. This project aims to capture ethnographically the way Maronite culture is evolving in response to regional pressures. The Maronites of Lebanon were the dominant community of modern Lebanon. Since the end of the civil war (1975–90), they have lost their economic power to the Sunnis associated with the Gulf capitalism that has rebuilt Lebanon. They have also lost their military and political power to the Shi'a who have accumulated military strength through their struggle against Israel's occupation and their links to Iran. The Maronites are also declining numerically and, most dramatically today, like all Arab Christians, living with the spectre of Islamic fundamentalism in the region, particularly the threat of ISIS (Islamic State).Read moreRead less