Announcing the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies’ new Research Theme: Migration, Im/mobility and Belonging
The Networks of Care project is based in the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies (SCHS), a flagship research centre at The University of Sydney. SCHS has recently launched its newest Research Theme, entitled, Migration, Im/mobility and Belonging.
The Research Theme is co-led by the Networks of Care Project Lead, Dr Leah Williams Veazey, alongside Dr Michelle Peterie (also based in the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies) and Associate Professor Sukhmani Khorana (UNSW).
“Migration is central to social life and societal organisation. Yet it is also regularly framed as one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. As concurrent global refugee ‘crises’, environmental disasters, public health threats and international labour shortages place migration on local, national and international agendas, questions of migration, im/mobility and belonging have never been more pertinent.
Within this theme, our researchers are developing innovative scholarship that explores the complexities of migration as a socio-political and mediatised phenomenon. Centring the social, political, economic and environmental structures that variously necessitate, encourage and constrain migration, we highlight marked disparities in access to movement and explore their embeddedness in broader systems of inequality and injustice.
Our work in this theme also takes seriously the relational, affective and ecological aspects of migration and resettlement. This focus draws attention to the complex entanglements of care and interdependency, biographies and bodies, policies and practices that shape and structure im/mobility, co-construct and obstruct belonging, and enhance and inhibit health and wellbeing within and across borders.”