ABSTRACT
Temporary migration—and its dynamic consequences for social, economic and/or environmental changes in both migrant sending and receiving countries—has also emerged as a consideration among three works focused on labour migration in this second special issue. Explorations of temporary migration—across all forms of skilled, ‘low-skilled’ and ‘unskilled’ migration—are needed as much as ever. A. Gamlen—Graeme John Hugo's successor as the Director of the Hugo Centre for Migration and Population Research—noted that Hugo's interests in Indochinese political refugees and environmental migration were connected by his concern with the choices and constraints that influence population movements. The Hugo Conference: Environment, Migration, Politics was ‘named after the late Hugo, formidable scholar in migration studies and a pioneer in the examination of the linkages between environmental changes and migration’. Hugo was establishing himself as an expert on labour mobility and circular migration dynamics in Asia, alongside his always present focus on Australian demography and population distribution.
