Migration, Development
and Poverty Reduction
8th APMRN International
Conference
26-29 May 2007
Fujian Normal
University, Fuzhou, China
Funded by the
Rockefeller Foundation
Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou
with generous support
from
Asia Pacific Migration
Research Network (APMRN)
AusAID
UNESCO
Organising Person and Institution
Professor Yu Zhu, School of Geography, Fujian Normal University,
8 Shangsan Rd., Cangshan, Fuzhou, Fujian 350007, P.R.China.
Tel: +86-591-83465302, Fax: +86-591-83442840
E-mail: zhu300@pub6.fz.fj.cn
Other collaborating institutions
Asia Pacific Migration Research Network, APMRN Secretariat,
The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
(Dr Robyn Iredale)
AusAID, Canberra
Mekong Migration
Network (MMN), Asian Migrant Centre, Hong Kong, SAR China (Rex
Varon and Reiko Harima)
UNESCO's STEPAN (Professor
T. Turpin)
Program
Detailed
printable program.
Papers to be presented
As papers become
available they will be placed on this website.
Day 1
Opening address -
Asia Pacific Migration
Network's History and Achievements
Session 1
1. Overview - International Migration and Development in Asia
2. Policy considerations
on China's rural migrants: Helping their smooth transfer to
non-agricultural activities and urban areas, and ensuring their
legal rights and benefits
3. New migration
in the Pacific Islands
Session 2
1. International and Iinternal
Migration and the Ensuing Chain Ddevelopmental Effects on Source
Areas: Evidence from China
2. New Emigrants’ Network of Overseas
Chinese: An Exploration into an International Migration Pattern
— A Case Study on Shaxi Village
3. Growth of Internal and International
Migration in Mongolia
4. Migration in Cambodia: Internal vs.
External Flows
Session 3
2. High level talented people from
overseas in Shanghai
3. Labour Export from Viet Nam: Issues of Policy and Practice
Session 4
1. Remittances, Investments and Social
Mobility Among Bangladeshi and Iranian Returnees from Japan
Day 2
Session 1
1. Regional
Integration and Migration in the Greater Mekong Sub-region:
A Review
2. Urban
Migration in Pre- and Post-Reform Viet Nam: Macro Patterns and
Determinants of Urbanward Migration, the 1984-1989 and 1994-1999
Periods
3. Exploitative Labour
Brokerage Practices in Cambodia: The Role and Practices of Private
Recruitment Agencies
Session 2
1. Gender
Concerns in Migration in Lao PDR
3. Thailand
Policies towards Migrant Workers from Myanmar
Session 3
3. Sex Trafficking of Foreign
Women to US Military Base Camp Towns in South Korea: Victim’s
Experiences of Health, Gendered Violence and Sexual Abuse
Session 4
1. Risky
Behaviours of Vietnamese Truck Drivers on Three Asian Highways
2. The Rural-to-Urban Migrants’
Awareness of Their Reproductive Health Rights in Yunnan, China
3. Migrant
Workers and their Rights to Healthcare
4. Environmental Concerns and Population
Displacement in West China
Day 3
Report
of the APMRN secretariat 2007
APMRN coordinators
2007
Day 4
Where will all the researchers
go? Training, networks and mobility of scientists in the Asia
Pacific region
