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IAMCR 2012 awards announced
IAMCR has awarded 10 travel grants of US$1,500 to offset the costs for ten members from low-income who will be attending and presenting papers at the 2012 Conference in Durban, South Africa, 15-20 July 2012.
Additionally, four grants covering conference registration fees were awarded to IAMCR members from low income-countries who support IAMCR as section or working group officers or active members of committees, and three to African students.
Travel Grants
- Nesrine Abdel-Sattar (Egypt)
- Benedicta Adiita (Ghana)
- Irene Dorothy Awino (Kenya)
- Thalita Cruz Bastos (Brazil)
- Sheena Johnson Brown (Jamaica)
- Claudia Mellado (Chile)
- Joseph Muyangata (Malawi)
- Pradeep Nishantha Weerasinghe (Sri Lanka)
- Mariam Shaikh (Pakistan)
- Mohammad Sahid Ullah (Bangladesh)
Associates Grants
- Arul Aram (India)
- Dipak De (India)
- Fernando Resende (Brazil)
- Ravindra Kumar Vemula (India)
African Students
- Nancy Achieng' Booker (Kenya)
- Alet Janse van Rensburg (South Africa)
- Elastus Mambwe, Jr (Zambia)
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Members' books
Migration and New Media: Transnational Families and Polymedia
Mirca Madianou & Daniel Miller
How do parents and children care for each other when they are separated because of migration? The way in which transnational families maintain long-distance relationships has been revolutionised by the emergence of new media such as email, instant messaging, social networking sites, webcam and texting. A migrant mother can now call and text her left-behind children several times a day, peruse social networking sites and leave the webcam for 12 hours achieving a sense of co-presence.
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