Enacting a Sense of Home Among Older Chinese Migrants in Australia

Presented by A/Prof Shuang Liu

Date: Friday 4 October, 2019
Time: 3:00pm-4:00pm
Location: Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), Joyce Ackroyd Building (#37) 

Abstract:

This presentation advances an understanding of the significance of home to older migrants and explores the process through which they build a sense of home, drawing on empirical data from older Chinese in Australia. The findings indicate that an immigrant’s home is not only a place of residence and a set of relationships with family members, but also a site where ethnic and mainstream cultures are traversed and identities negotiated. An understanding of the home building process can inform researchers, practitioners, communities, and policy-makers in terms of designing strategies to facilitate ageing well in a foreign land.

Presenter:

A/Prof Shuang Liu researches and publishes in the areas of ageing and immigration, acculturation, identity negotiation, and intercultural relations. She is particularly interested in how older people of diverse cultural backgrounds search for a sense of home, identity, and belonging as they live and age in a foreign land..

 


 

About Research Seminar and Workshop Series

 


School of Communication and Arts Research Seminar Series

The research seminar and workshop series occur each semester, each with a different topic and guest speaker from UQ or otherwise.

Friday, 16 August
12-1pm

Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the
SCA Writer's Studio
(Level 6, Michie)

Archives: A Knowledge Café on Ways of Knowing, Seeing, Being, and Accessing

A conversation hosted by Kate Newey, Bernadette Cochrane, Madelyn Coupe, and Hannah Mason

Friday, 23 August
12-1pm

Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at 09-738

Dispatches from Trump-World: Preppers, Climate Disasters and a Front Row Seat the 2024 Republican National Convention

Dr Tom Doig

Friday, 30August
12-1pm

Indigenising the Curriculum Pedagogy JamDr Amelia Barikin and Prof. Anna Johnston

Friday, 13 September
12-1pm

Assessment Security Pedagogy JamDr Amelia Barikin and Dr Maureen Engel

Friday, 20 September
12-1pm

Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the
SCA Writer's Studio
(Level 6, Michie)

Upside Down: Adaptation and Digital Affordances in Stranger Things

Dr Bernadette Cochrane

Friday, 11 October
12-1pm

Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the
SCA Writer's Studio
(Level 6, Michie)

Linking research, teaching and engagement – the PEATLI project

A.Prof Elske van de Fliert

Friday, 25 October
1-2pm

Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at 09-738
(Level 7, Michie)

Dissonances: Aesthetic Beauty, Moral Beauty, and Deformity in Crimes of the Future (2022)

Dr Matthew Cipa

 

Venue

Digital Learning Space (Room 224, Level 2), Joyce Ackroyd Building (#37)