Iredale, Robyn Rae 1944-

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IREDALE, Robyn Rae 1944-

PERSONAL: Born November 4, 1944, in Gayndah, Queensland, Australia; daughter of Raymond (an accountant) and Betty (Bisby) Iredale; married Dennis Smith, August 13, 1966 (divorced, September, 1980); married Tim Turpin, January 3, 1998; children: (first marriage) Lisa Smith Ratcliff, Martin, Danielle. Ethnicity: "Anglo-Saxon Australian." Education: University of Sydney, B.A. (with honors) and diploma of education, both 1966; Macquarie University, M.A., 1981, Ph.D., 1986. Politics: Greens Party. Hobbies and other interests: Yoga, sports.

ADDRESSES: Home—54 Buttenshaw Dr., Coledale, New South Wales 2515, Australia. Offıce—School of Geosciences, University of Wollongong, Northfields Ave., Wollongong, New South Wales 2522, Australia; fax: 4221-4250. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, lecturer, 1973-79; Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Committee, Sydney, director of research, 1987-90; University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, researcher and lecturer in geosciences, 1990—. Consultant to UNESCO.

MEMBER: International Union for the Scientific Study of Populations, Australian Population Association, Institute of Australian Geographers.

AWARDS, HONORS: Grants from Australian Bureau of Immigration Research, New South Wales Ministry of Education and Youth, Bureau of Immigration and Population Research, Commonwealth Parliamentary Research Service, Australian Office of Multicultural Affairs, Australian Research Council, Asia-Pacific Research Institute, Housing Industry Association of Australia, Asia Centre of Japan Foundation, Ford Foundation, UNESCO, Australian Agency for International Development, and International Organization for Migration.

WRITINGS:

Skills Transfer: International Migration and Accreditation Processes, University of Wollongong Press (Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia), 1997.

(With Stephen Castles, William Foster, and Glenn Withers) Immigration and Australia: Myths and Realities, Allen & Unwin (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), 1998.

(With Naran Bilik, Wang Su, and others) Contemporary Minority Migration, Education, and Ethnicity in China, Edward Elgar Press (Northampton, MA), 2001.

Skilled Migration: The Rise of Temporary Migration and Its Policy Implications, United Nations Publications (Geneva, Switzerland), 2002.

(Editor, with Naran Bilik and F. Guo, and contributor) China's Minorities on the Move: Selected Case Studies, M. E. Sharpe (Armonk, NY), 2003.

(Editor, with Charles Hawksley and Stephen Castles, and contributor) Migration in the Asia Pacific: Population, Settlement, and Citizenship Issues, Edward Elgar Press (Aldershot, England), 2003.

(Editor, with F. Guo and S. Rozario, and contributor) Return Migration in the Asia Pacific, Edward Elgar Press (Aldershot, England), 2003.

Contributor to books, including The Last Half Century of Chinese Overseas, edited by E. Sinn, Hong Kong University Press (Hong Kong, China), 1998; Contemporary Development and Issues in China's Economic Transition, edited by Charles Harvie, Macmillan Press (London, England), 2000; Asian Migrants and Education, edited by Michael Walter Charney, Brenda Keoh, and Tong Chee Kiong, Kluwer Academic Publishers (Dordrecht, Netherlands); and Chinese Emigrants and Refugees: Recent Population Movements in East and Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, edited by Charles Coppel, University of Melbourne Press (Melbourne, Australia). Contributor to academic journals, including International Migration Review, Minerva, China Quarterly, Oriental Geographer, Australian Journal of Social Issues, Journal of Canadian and International Education, Just Policy, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, and Georgetown Law Review. Guest editor of special issue, International Migration, 2001.