ICAMM 2012 - 3rd International Conference on Academic Mobility and Migration ICAMM3

ICAMM 3 will bring together international researchers and practitioners from a range of backgrounds and institutions to discuss Academic Mobility and Migration. This conference seeks to address the following topic strands (amongst others):
Language learning and teaching
Educational aspects
Diachronic perspectives on AMM
The myths of AMM
Forms of AMM
Short-term/long-term/multiple mobilities (‘multimovers’)
Virtual Academic Mobility
‘Local’ Academic Mobility (e.g. Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi, Middlesex University-Dubai Campus, Monash University Malaysia, The University of Nottingham-Malaysia Campus or Curtin University Sarawak)
Mobility ofobjects, images, information and “wastes” (Urry, 2010) across global academic networks and flows
Categories of mobile individuals
Gender
Minorities
Academic Migrants (il/legal)
Returnees (migrants/exchange students)
Long-term impact / consequences of AMM
Employability
Language policies
The “intercultural”
Identity
Impact on the ‘local’
Impact on the environment
Official strategies vs. reality
Sociality (long-term/short-term)
Families, intimate relations
‘Friendship’
Sense of community
Reunion
Research methods: how to study AMM?