Mobility and exclusion

Researchers working on this topic explore how migration and other forms of mobility have led to the exclusion of some groups from development processes, and to limited opportunities to participate in political processes. Research projects are currently organised into three themes:

• Labour Migration, Regulation and Work - a group of inter-linked projects examining the development of labour regimes in both colonial and post-colonial societies.
• Bordered Exclusions - projects that examine how formulations of identity and citizenship along border zones intersect with gender, ethnicity, class and sexuality in shaping experiences of mobility and exclusion.
• Democracy and human rights - projects that explore processes of democratisation, including human rights and women's rights activism.

Labour Migration, Regulation and Work

• Urban Villages of Port Morsesby, Papua New Guinea (Michael Goddard)
• Selling Their Souls (Rob Castle, Jim Hagan, Robert Knight [Adelaide University] and Andrew Wells)
• The creation of diasporic communities and social transformation at “home”: A Samoan case study (Deborah Gough)
• Indonesian Domestic Workers In Taiwan (Anne Loveband)
• Globalization and Development: Impact on Indian Women Workers (Susheela Pandian)
• China's Entry into the WTO (Kate Hannan)
• The demise of the garment and sugar industries in the Fiji Islands (Kate Hannan)
• Human Resource Management in Vietnam (Anne Vo)
• A study of the garment industry in Malaysia (Vicki Crinis)
• Gender and Migration: Thai illegal migrant workers in border of Southern Thailand to Malaysia (Suttiporn Bunmak
• Skilled Filipino migrants in Singapore and Australia and their role(s) in their homeland's development (provisional) (Seori Choi

Bordered Exclusions

• Ideas and attitudes about madness in Papua New Guinea (Michael Goddard)

• Muslims and Christians: Women, Religious Nationalism and Sustainability in the Asia Pacific Region (Santi Rozario and Geoffrey Samuel and Hilary Carey

• In the shadow of Singapore: The limits of transnationalism in Insular Riau (Lenore Lyons and Michele Ford)
• Gendered Exclusion: Women and Forced Migration in Eastern India (Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase)
• Sex Tourism in the Riau Islands of Indonesia (Sophie Williams)
• Indonesian Islamic Masculinities (Richard Howson, Mike Donaldson and Pam Nilan)
• East Timorese in Melbourne: Community and Identity in a Time of Political Unrest in Timor Leste (Hedda Askland and Linda Connor)
• ‘Bananas, Bastards and Victims’?  Hybrid reflections on cultural belonging in intercountry adoptee narratives (Kim Gray and Ellen Jordan)

Democracy and human rights

• The Malaysian Security Approach (Andrew Humphreys)
• Trans/national activism: Organizing for Domestic Worker Rights in Southeast Asia (Lenore Lyons)
• Notions of HRD for civil society (Especially the Asia Pacific) (Di Kelly)
• Migrant workers, human rights and the role of remittances for development (Di Kelly)
• The Under-representation of Women in Japanese Politics (Emma Dalton)
• Democracy in Southeast Asia (Andrew Humphreys)
• Class in Indonesian Politics (Max Lane)