Transnational Education & Migration in Globalizing Cities

Date: 3-4 July 2007
Location: NUS, Singapore, The Shaw Foundation Building, AS7, Faculty Lounge

• Co-organizers: A/P Shirlena Huang, Professor Brenda Yeoh, Professor Binod Khadria, Professor Gavin Jones, A/P Ho Kong Chong, Dr Teofilo Daquila, Dr Ravinder Sidhu

This workshop will be carried out in dialogic style and is based on presentations by invited speakers and NUS collaborators

This workshop aims to develop a dialogue among its participants on the key strategies for engaging in the research on Transnational Education & Migration in Globalizing Cities.

Typical examples of issues to be covered could include:

• The policies and practices employed by globalizing cities to re-invent themselves as education hubs and creative nodes: their interactions with broader regional and national development policies including the influence of global governance regimes aimed at (neo)liberalization;

• The role of local and foreign education providers in the globalizing cities of the Asia-Pacific: how they articulate their institutional goals of ‘internationalisation’ and ‘globalisation’ with national strategies of development;

• In relation to (1) and (2), the kinds of place branding strategies used to attract desired human capital (‘global talent’) and institutional branding strategies employed by education providers such as foreign universities;

• Strategies employed by families to secure access to a high quality education for their children: how do they choose study destinations, what impact does transnationality have on their experiences of citizenship, their emotional connectivities to their countries of origin, and the affinities they establish with host cities and countries; what are the gendered effects of transnationality on the lives of families;

• The psychology of transnationalisation: how do transmigrants, in particular youth, navigate cultural differences and dissonances and what kinds of synergies and resiliences are fostered by inter-cultural educational encounters; and

• The types of cosmopolitanisms fostered by transnational education, and how these are embodied by states and subjects including technocrats, mobile academic-researchers and sojourning students and families.

REGISTRATION

Please RSVP by 22 June 2007 to Ms Sin Harng Luh at email:  fasshl@nus.edu.sg indicating your name, email, designation, organisation/affiliation and contact number.

CONTACT DETAILS

Organizers:
A/P Shirlena Huang geoslena@nus.edu.sg
Professor Brenda Yeoh geoysa@nus.edu.sg
Professor Binod Khadria arikb@nus.edu.sg
Professor Gavin Jones arigwj@nus.edu.sg
A/P Ho Kong Chong sochokc@nus.edu.sg
Dr Teofilo Daquila seatcd@nus.edu.sg
Dr Ravinder Sidhu r.sidhu@uq.edu.au

Secretariat:
Sin Harng Luh fasshl@nus.edu.sg