Hao Duan

PhD Student

Telephone: +61 2 6268 8317
Fax: +61 2 6268 8017
Email: h.duan@student.adfa.edu.au
Location: PEMS Nth, Room 303

Field of Study - Geography

Supervisor: Dr Paul Tranter

Supervisor: Dr Scott Sharpe

Research Topic - Embodied Migration: Affective Understanding of the Push-Pull model

This project explores the relationship between travel costs and lives of temporary migrant workers, in light of higher travel cost associated with peak oil. Peak oil describes the possible future of oil scarcity, where demand for oil outstrips our capacity to produce it. Peak oil may have a significant influence on fuel prices and directly affects the migrant workers' travelling costs. Temporary migrants are likely to change their behaviours in the context of peak oil. Long-distance commuters, who are regarded as an important group of temporary migrants, are studied on their adaptive behaviours, their relationships with family members, communities, businesses, and governments. The study expects to help authorities cope with likely impacts of peak oil on long-distance commuters.