Professor Graeme Hugo

Biography/ Background

Graeme Hugo is a University Professorial Research Fellow, Professor of Geography and Director of the National Centre for Social Applications of Geographical Information Systems at the University of Adelaide. He is the author of over two hundred books, articles in scholarly journals and chapters in books, as well as a large number of conference papers and reports. In 2002 he secured a $1.125 million ARC Federation Fellowship over five years for his research project, "The new paradigm of international migration to and from Australia: dimensions, causes and implications".

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
• Immigration, 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.

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: Sunday, 28 Jun 2009