Migration Cluster
News & Events
14 May 2019
Time of Migration: How Aging Taiwanese Immigrants and Returnees Remake Intergenerational Intimacy
11 April 2019
Transnationalising the 'Moral Neoliberal': Private Aid Initiatives in Cambodia
21-22 February 2019
WORKSHOP: Shaping Migrant and Mobile Worlds: Connectivities, Comparisons, Collaborations
12 November 2018
China-Thailand relations through the prism of migration
27 September 2018
The Market Model: immigration regimes in comparative perspective
14 August 2018
Brokered Safety: labour recruitment and migration assistance in the Mekong region
5 February 2018
When Transit States Pursue their own agenda
8 March 2018
Migration Methodologies Workshop
9 March 2018
Cross-border schooling and transnational topologies: The embodiment of migration in children’s education
04 November 2016
Desiring-Migration: Mobility Regimes and Migrant Aspirations in 21st Century South Korea
19 October 2016
“Am I Allowed To Get Pregnant?”: Awareness of Pregnancy Protection Laws Among Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
16-17 February 2016
South-South Migration, Refugees & Diasporic Communities *workshop program updated*
22 January 2016
Immigration and Integration in Singapore Workshop
13 January 2016
Transnational Social Protection: Setting an Agenda
11 January 2016
Conceptualising the Mobilities of Events: Geopolitics and Materialities in Transit
29 October 2015
A NUS-Humboldt Joint Workshop on Migration, Diversity and Encounters
07 April 2015
Sneak peeks + Meet the Director of Unlucky Plaza
View movie trailer here
25 March 2015
Labor Migration and Global Labor History: The Case of the Javanese
25 February 2015
Postcolonial Migration and Urban Encounters (Roundtable report available here)
06 February 2015
Migrant Care Workers in Italy and Taiwan: A Comparative Study
28 January 2015
Asian-born Scientists-in-Training: The Question of Where to Train
21 January 2015
Navigating Research Spaces in Migration Studies
19 November 2014
Urbanization, Multilocality, Remittances and their Effects on Forests and Communities
07 March 2014
Book Launch: The “Bare Life” of Thai Migrant Workmen in Singapore by the late Dr Pattana Kitiarsa
Closure of the Migration Cluster
We regret to announce that the Migration Cluster has closed with effect from 31 March 2020. The new research clusters will be announced soon.
About Us
The Migration Research Cluster in the National University of Singapore, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, is an interdisciplinary research cluster focusing on issues arising from increased levels of human mobility in Asia, and aims to be the flagship of scholarship of migration and mobilities in the field of social sciences and humanities. Asian migration trends today encompass movements among a wide spectrum of peoples - professional and managerial elites, frequent flyers, contract workers, internally displaced people and refugees - cutting across class, ethnicity and gender. Asian countries feature predominantly as both the source and destination of major migration flows. Understanding a rapidly globalizing world today requires us to rethink the conceptual links between 'mobility' and 'place', the economic and socio-demographic drivers of migration, the changing characteristics of ethno-religious diaspora and transnational families worldwide, the socio-political and economic impact of thickening transnational interconnections between places, the institutionalization of these flows and interconnections, as well as the implications for the social and cultural politics of identity, citizenship, adjustment and belonging. The Migration Research Cluster promotes the encounter and integration of different perspectives, and brings together the expertise from the varied fields in the social sciences and humanities.
Contact Us
Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
National University of Singapore
The Shaw Foundation Building, Block AS7, Level 6
5 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
Migration Cluster
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