Dr Helen Forbes-Mewett is Senior Lecturer and Discipline Head of Sociology, School of Social Sciences. She is also Deputy Director of the Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre. Helen's interdisciplinary background includes Sociology, Psychology and International Business, degrees all awarded by Monash University. Her work focuses on human security, migration, cultural diversity, and social cohesion, with a particular focus on international students. Since 2018, Helen has supervised to completion...
Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 1057
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7437-0966
Twitter https://twitter.com/@ForbesMewett

Expertise

Migration processes
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Disciplines
Methods
Geographies

Roles

  • Monash University

    University, Clayton, Australia
    Senior Lecturer

  • Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre

    Research Institute, Clayton, Australia
    Deputy Director

  • Monash University

    University, Clayton, Australia
    Associate Professor

Research

Preface

Authors Helen Forbes-Mewett
Year 2023
Journal Name Journal of Sociology
1 Journal Article

“I Just want to be Happy”: An Exploration of the Aspirations, Values, and Psychological Wellbeing of Australian Young People

Authors Ashley Humphrey, Helen Forbes-Mewett, Ana-Maria Bliuc
Year 2023
Journal Name Emerging Adulthood
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2 Journal Article

Cohesion, corrosion and fire adaptation: The case of Boolarra in Australia

Authors Helen Forbes-Mewett, Allegra Schermuly
Year 2023
Journal Name International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
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3 Journal Article

Identity and Belonging Among Chinese Australians

Authors Jennifer Martin, Dharma Arunachalam, Helen Forbes-Mewett
Year 2023
4 Book

The New Security: Shifting the Boundaries

Authors Helen Forbes-Mewett
Year 2022
Book Title The Handbook of Security
5 Book Chapter

Community stakeholder and opinion formation toward end-of-life planning in Chinese community in Australia

Authors Wilfred Yang Wang, Gil-Soo Han, Helen Forbes-Mewett
Year 2022
Journal Name Death Studies
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7 Journal Article

Regional migration and the local multicultural imaginary: the uneasy governance of cultural difference in regional Australia

Authors Helen Forbes-Mewett, Kieran Hegarty, Rebecca Wickes
Year 2021
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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8 Journal Article

Together Here, Now and Forever: Chinese Immigrants’ Belonging in Australia, Family, Ethnicity and Memorialisation

Authors Helen Forbes-Mewett, Gil-Soo Han, Wilfred Yang Wang
Year 2020
Journal Name Journal of Intercultural Studies
Citations (WoS) 4
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9 Journal Article

Aspirational Individuals, Hopeful Communities: Histories and Subjectivities of Precarity in Regional Australia

Authors Helen Forbes-Mewett, Allegra Clare Schermuly, Kieran Hegarty
Year 2020
Journal Name Critical Sociology
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10 Journal Article

Social support from bonding and bridging relationships in disaster recovery: Findings from a slow-onset disaster

Authors Kien Nguyen-Trung, Helen Forbes-Mewett, Dharmalingam Arunachalam
Year 2020
Journal Name International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
11 Journal Article

Police legitimacy: perspectives of migrants and non-migrants in Australia

Authors Allegra Clare Schermuly, Helen Forbes-Mewett
Year 2019
Journal Name Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice
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12 Journal Article

Defining Vulnerability

Authors Helen Forbes-Mewett, Kien Nguyen-Trung
Year 2019
Book Title Vulnerability in a Mobile World
13 Book Chapter

International Student Migration and Mental Health

Authors Jiamin Gan, Helen Forbes-Mewett
Year 2019
Book Title Vulnerability in a Mobile World
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15 Book Chapter

My own business, not my children’s: negotiating funeral rites and the mobility and communication juncture among Chinese migrants in Melbourne

Authors Gil-Soo Han, Helen Forbes-Mewett, Wilfred Yang Wang
Year 2018
Journal Name Mobilities
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16 Journal Article

Whose ‘fault’ is it? Becoming homeless in Singapore

Authors Harry Tan, Helen Forbes-Mewett
Year 2017
Journal Name Urban Studies
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17 Journal Article

The neighbourhood context of crime against international students

Authors Helen Forbes-Mewett, Rebecca Wickes
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of Sociology
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18 Journal Article

The impact of regional higher education spaces on the security of international students

Authors Helen Forbes-Mewett
Year 2016
Journal Name Higher Education Research & Development
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19 Journal Article

International Students and Gender-Based Violence

Authors Helen Forbes-Mewett, Jude McCulloch
Year 2016
Journal Name Violence Against Women
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20 Journal Article

Food, identity and belonging: a case study of South African-Australians

Authors Allegra Clare Schermuly, Helen Forbes-Mewett
Year 2016
Journal Name British Food Journal
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21 Journal Article

Campus Support Services, Programs, and Policies for International Students

Year 2016
Journal Name Advances in Educational Marketing, Administration, and Leadership
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22 Journal Article

Global Perspectives and Local Challenges Surrounding International Student Mobility

Year 2016
Journal Name Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development
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23 Journal Article

International Students and Crime

Authors Helen Forbes-Mewett, Jude McCulloch, Chris Nyland
Year 2015
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24 Book

Funding international student support services: tension and power in the university

Authors Helen Forbes-Mewett, Chris Nyland
Year 2013
Journal Name Higher Education
25 Journal Article

Chinese Transnational Investment in Australia: A Case Study of Insider/Outsider Relations

Authors Helen Forbes-Mewett, Chris Nyland, Bruce Thomson
Year 2013
Journal Name Journal of Intercultural Studies
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26 Journal Article

Governing the International Student Experience: Lessons From the Australian International Education Model

Authors Chris Nyland, Helen Forbes-Mewett, Charmine E. J. Härtel
Year 2013
Journal Name Academy of Management Learning & Education
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27 Journal Article

International Student Security and English Language Proficiency

Authors Erlenawati Sawir, Simon Marginson, Chris Nyland, ...
Year 2012
Journal Name Journal of Studies in International Education
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28 Journal Article

Sinophobia as Corporate Tactic and the Response of Host Communities

Authors Chris Nyland, Helen Forbes-Mewett, S. Bruce Thomson
Year 2011
Journal Name Journal of Contemporary Asia
29 Journal Article

International student security: a view from Beijing

Authors Helen Forbes‐Mewett, Chris Nyland, Sijun Shao
Year 2010
Journal Name International Studies in Sociology of Education
30 Journal Article

The international student safety debate: moving beyond denial

Authors C. Nyland, H. Forbes‐Mewett, S. Marginson
Year 2010
Journal Name Higher Education Research & Development
31 Journal Article

International student‐workers in Australia: a new vulnerable workforce

Authors Chris Nyland, Helen Forbes‐Mewett, Simon Marginson, ...
Year 2009
Journal Name Journal of Education and Work
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33 Journal Article

Cultural Diversity, Relocation, and the Security of International Students at an Internationalised University

Authors Helen Forbes-Mewett, Chris Nyland
Year 2007
Journal Name Journal of Studies in International Education
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34 Journal Article

The National Identity, Security, Future Hope and Wellbeing of Young People Living in the Unrecognised State of Transnistria

Authors Ashley Humphrey, Helen Forbes-Mewett
Year 2024
Journal Name Ethnopolitics
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35 Journal Article

International Students in the Time of COVID-19

Authors Catherine Gomes, Helen Forbes-Mewett
Year 2021
Journal Name Journal of International Students
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36 Journal Article

Vulnerability and Resilience in a Mobile World

Authors Helen Forbes-Mewett
Year 2020
Journal Name Journal of International Students
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37 Journal Article

Social Capital and the U.S. College Experiences of International Student-Athletes and Non-Athletes

Authors Helen Forbes-Mewett, Madeleine Pape
Year 2019
Journal Name Journal of International Students
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38 Journal Article

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