C08.17 GLOBAL CHANGE AND HUMAN MOBILITY IGU COMMISSION

1. a complete list of the commission’s current steering committee members

CHAIR: Prof. Armando Montanari

Department of European and Comparative Studies
Università di Roma "La Sapienza"
P. le Aldo Moro 5, I-00185 Roma
Tel +39 06 491919
Fax +39 06 490450
E-mail:

SECRETARY: Prof. Yoshitaka Ishikawa

Department of Geography, Graduate School of Letters
Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
Fax: +81-75-761-0692
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STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS

CLARK, Prof. William
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
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GALKINA, Prof. Tamara
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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KING, Prof. Russell
University of Sussex, U.K.
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KRISJANE, Prof. Zaiga
University of Latvia, Alberta 10, LV 1215, Riga, Latvia
E-mail:

MAHARAJ, Prof. Brij
Department of Geography
University of KwaZulu-Natal (Pietermaritzburg)
Private Bag X01
Pietermaritzburg
South Africa

email:
PORTNOV, Prof. Boris
Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Management
Graduate School of Management
University Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel 31905
E-mail:
POVOA-NETO, Prof. Helion
Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Group of Migration
Studies (NIEM)
Professor at the Institute for Urban and Regional
Planning, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Instituto de Pesquisa e Planejamento Urbano e
Regional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
(IPPUR-UFRJ)
Prédio da Reitoria, sala 543, Cidade
Universitária, llha do Fundão.
Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
cep 21941-590
E-mail:

VANDERMOTTEN, Prof. Christian
Free University of Brussels
Campus de la Plaine
Brussels
Belgium
E-mail:

2.The number of the commission members as of 31 December 2009. The tabulation isshown in Annex 1.

The total number of the commission members is 120-

3. The dates, titles, location, and number of participants of meetings organised in 2008 and 2009

Conference n.1 - International Conference organised by Global Change and Human Mobility Commission on

“Transnational processes and crossing places: new forms of international mobility”

Gran Canaria, Spain, on June 19-21, 2009

Participants n. 30

Conference n.2 . Special sessions sponsored by the Globility commission during

Second International Congress on the Geography of Europe (EUGEO 2009) held on August 13-16, 2009

Participants n. 25

4. The dates, titles, location and number of participants expected for the meetings in 2010 and 2011

Conference n. 3 - In July 2010, the Globility Commission is planning the two meetings in Israel: Haifa Meeting as pre-congress of Tel Aviv Regional Conference and Tel Aviv Meeting as sessions within the conference. We hope many colleagues will participate in the meetings. Haifa Meeting (July 9-11, 2010)

Conference n. 4 – in 2010 the commission could meet in Brazil

5. a list of collaborative efforts with other IGU Commissions and with other international unions and organisations

IGU Commission on Population and Vulnerability

IGU Commission on Geography of Tourism, Leisure and Global Change

The 5th International Conference on Population Geographies (August 5-9, 2009)

Second International Congress on the Geography of Europe (August 13-16, 2009)

4th International Conference on Beyond Globalisation (September 16-17, 2009)

Population, Space and Place

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Migration and Ethnic Themes

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal

Scalabrini Migration Center

Sussex Centre for Migration Research

National Institute of Population and Social Security Research

Italian Geographical Society

The Human Geographical Society of Japan

The Association of Japanese Geographers

6. a list of newsletters and other publications the commission has issued from August 2008 to date

6.1 Geographical Review of Japan Series B, Vol. 81, No. 1, 2009

SPECIAL ISSUE: Changing Geographies of Human Mobility on Urban and National Scales

This special issue includes the following six papers:

Josefina Domínguez Mujica and Raquel Guerra Talavera: The demographic transition and

immigration flows in Spain: a close relationship

Barbara Staniscia: Migration of women to Eastern Italy: towards an Adriatic model?

Zaiga Krisjane, Maris Berzins and Andris Bauls: New labour migration trends: evidence from Latvia

Zhongdong Ma and Guowei Zhou: Isolated or compensated: the Impact of temporary

migration of adult children on the wellbeing of the elderly in rural China

Hiroo Kamiya and Chul Woo Lee: International marriage migrants to rural areas in

South Korea and Japan: a comparative analysis

Ryogo Abe: Gendered labour migration from the Philippines to Japan: mapping

“Philippine Pub space” into the Japanese context

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You can read and save these papers at the following website:

6.2 Belgeo (Belgian Journal of Geography)

SPECIAL ISSUE: theoretical approaches in human mobility.

Papers have been collected and referees have started their work.

6.3 the Commission is regularly updating its web site

on the web site it is also possible to find comprehensive documentation of all the meetings and events since the year 2000.

ANNEX 1 – TABULATION OF COMMISSION MEMBERS BY COUNTRU

Country / Number
Australia / 4
Austria / 2
Belgium / 4
Brazil / 3
Bulgaria / 1
Canada / 4
China / 2
Croatia / 3
Czech Republic / 3
Fiji / 1
Finland / 1
France / 1
Germany / 5
Ghana / 1
Greece / 1
Hungary / 2
India / 1
Iran / 1
Israel / 3
Italy / 6
Japan / 13
Latvia / 1
Malaysia / 1
Mexico / 1
Mongolia / 2
Mozambique / 1
Namibia / 1
Nepal / 1
Netherlands / 3
Nigeria / 2
Poland / 2
Portugal / 2
Romania / 4
Russia / 1
South Africa / 5
South Korea / 2
Spain / 9
Sudan / 1
Taiwan / 1
Thailand / 1
Tonga / 1
Tunisia / 2
Turkey / 2
Uganda / 1
United Kingdom / 8
USA / 3
TOTAL / 120