Migration Australia - Volume 1

This inaugural volume of the Institute's new biannual journal, Migration Australia, is a mix of academic rigour, peer reviewed articles and magazine style features, analyses and reviews.

Intended to advance discussion across a variety of migration related issues, Migration Australia articles include:

• Founding MIA Member Angela Chan's thought provoking public address from the Migration 2010 Conference;
• High level analysis of the migration advice market by longstanding QLD Member Philip Duncan;
• Think: Insight & Advice managing director Randall Pearce's survey on marketing migration advice services;
• A look at RMA ethics by MIA Advocacy Unit Manager Chris Thompson;
• MIA Research Officer Pamela O'Neill's observations on the Changing Together report two years on;
• A sharply constructed article on Australian exceptionalism and 'boat people' from Professor Penelope Mathew;
• Professor Graeme Hugo's excellent article exploring population demographics and migration;
• A rigorous research paper from Professor Verena Marshall on sponsoring organisations interactions with DIAC;
• A wide ranging, interdisciplinary paper on regional development from Mick Keegan and Nam Nguyen;
• Reviews of Anh Do's The Happiest Refugee, Mary Crock and Laurie Berg's Immigration, Refugees and Forced Migration: Law Policy and Practice in Australia and A J Brown's Michael Kirby: Paradoxes and Principles; and
• A short look at the Institute's Member survey by MIA Communication Manager Brian Duff.