This public lecture is now available as MP3 (please listen to the file below in three parts) and the PowerPoint slides as a PDF file (as a courtesy to the presenter, please contact him for permission to refer to his PowerPoint notes for the purpose of further research).
Significant numbers of people transit through and migrate temporarily or permanently between countries in the eastern neighbourhood of the European Union (EU), including the six countries of the EU Eastern Partnership initiative (Belarus, Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan), the Russian Federation and the five ex-Soviet central Asian countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Their movements raise issues, such as asylum policy, border management, citizenship, diaspora, and integration, on which little research has been done. Dr Markowski’s presentation will discuss some of these issues in the context of CARIM-East (Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration), a collaborative research project that started in 2011. It is the first migration ‘observatory’ focused on the region and funded by the European Commission. Dr Markowski will describe the project in more detail and discuss particular research challenges posed by different forms of migration in the region.
Dr Stefan Markowski is Associate Professor of Economics and Management in the School of Business at the UNSW@ADFA in Canberra and an Associate of ANUCES. He is also Visiting Research Professor at the University of Warsaw (Poland) and leads the team of this University’s Centre of Migration Research that participates in CARIM-East. Dr Markowski holds a doctorate in economics from the London School of Economics, and worked at the Centre for Environmental Studies and Roger Tym & Partners in London, before coming to Australia in the 1980s to work at the Bureau of Industry Economics (BIE) in Canberra and later joining UNSW@ADFA. He has published widely, and his research interests include defence procurement, defence economics, industry policy and trade, international mobility of factors of production, and migration.
To view the flyer for this event please see: Observing and Analysing Migration in Eastern Europe
