The Rural and Regional Resettlement Experiences of Visible Migrants and Refugees Conference will be held on Friday 10 February 2012 at the University of Melbourne.

This major conference event showcases the work of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project "Resettling Visible Migrants and Refugees in Rural and Regional Australia" and engages leading academics to provide a wider national, international and comparative overview of regional migration and settlement trends, policies, praxis and reality.

Speakers include The Hon. Nick Kotsiras MP, Stephen Castles, Graeme Hugo, Jock Collins, Michele Grossman, Farida Fozdar, Brian Galligan, Millsom Henry-Waring and Martina Boese.

To register for this event, please visit the website.

The ARC Linkage Project is conducted out of the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, in partnership with the Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) and Victorian Office of Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship (OMAC). For further information, please contact Annika Kearton.