Professor Graeme Hugo

Biography/ Background

Graeme Hugo is an ARC Australian Professorial Fellow, Professor of Geography and Director of the Australian Population and Migration Research Centre at the University of Adelaide. He is the author of over three hundred books, articles in scholarly journals and chapters in books, as well as a large number of conference papers and reports. He held an ARC Federation Fellowship between 2002 and 2007 and is currently Chair of the Advisory Committee on Demography and Liveability of the Commonwealth Department of Sustainable Environment, Water, Population and Communities and was appointed to the National Housing Supply Council in 2011.  He was appointed Deputy Chair of the Aged Care Financing Authority and a member of the National Sustainability Council in 2012.

In 2012 he was named an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service to population research, particularly the study of international migration, population geography and mobility, and through leadership roles with national and international organisations.

Research Interests

• Urban and population geography and demography, social geography, demographic trends (especially population mobility) and development in Southeast Asia. The impact of development on economic and social well-being in Southeast Asia.
• Population trends and their implications in Australia
• International migration, its changing patterns, causes and implications for social and economic change.
• Ageing, its changing patterns and implications for social and economic change.
• Internal Migration and Urbanization in Australia and Asia.

Publications

Ten Career Best Publications

1.                   Hugo, G.J and Young, S. (eds.), 2008.  Labour Mobility in the Asia-Pacific Region, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore.

2.                   Hugo, G.J., 2008.  In and Out of Australia: Rethinking Indian and Chinese Skilled Migration to Australia, Asian Population Studies, 3, 4, pp.267-291.

3.                   Khoo, S., McDonald, P. Voigt-Graf, C. and Hugo, G., 2007.  A Global Labor Market: Factors Motivating the Sponsorship and Temporary Migration of Skilled Workers to Australia, International Migration Review, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 480-510.

4.                   Hugo, G.J., 2006.  An Australian Diaspora?  International Migration, 44, 1, pp. 105-132.

5.                   Hugo, G.J., 2005.  The New International Migration in Asia:  Challenges for Population Research, Asian Population Studies, Volume 1, Issue 1, March , pp. 93-120.

6.                   Hugo, G.J., Champion, A.J., Lattes, A., 2003. Towards a New Conceptualization of Settlement for Demography Beyond the Urban/Rural Dichotomy, Population Development Review, 29, 1, pp. 277-297.

7.                   Hugo, G.J., 1999.  A New Paradigm of International Migration in Australia, New Zealand Population Review, 25, 1-2, pp. 1-39.

8.                   Massey, D.M., Arango, J., Hugo, G., Kouaouci, A. and Taylor, J.E., 1998.  Worlds in Motion: Understanding International Migration at the End of the Millennium, Clarendon Press, Oxford., Reprinted: 2005).

9.                   Hugo, G.J., 1986.  Australia's Changing Population: Trends and Implications, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.  (354 pp.)

10.               Hugo, G.J., 1982.  Circular Migration in Indonesia, Population and Development Review, 8, 1, pp. 59-84.

A listing of G Hugo works from The University of Adelaide Library can be found at:

http://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/workslist.pl?author=hugo&orderBy=year%20desc%2Ctype%2Cauthors%2Ctitle&js=1

Expertise for Media Contact

Categories	Population and demography
Expertise	International & Internal Migration; Ageing; population geography and demography; social geography; demographic trends (population mobility); South-East Asia (development, impact of development on economic and social well-being); population trends & implications for Australia; immigration and geography (their changing patterns, causes, implications); population studies
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Entry last updated: Tuesday, 13 Nov 2012