Kate McMillan

Senior Lecturer

BA Canterbury, BA (Hons) VUW, PhD Auck

Profile

Kate McMillan is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics. Her research interests focus on the politics of international migration, election campaigns, and the media. In 2009 she is teaching an Honours course on the Politics of International Migration, a Stage II course on Politics and the Media in New Zealand, and a new Stage III course focusing on election campaigns in a range of liberal democracies.

In 2008 Kate was nominated by Fulbright New Zealand to attend a six week Study of the US Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In August-December 2008 she was a Guest Scholar at the Centre for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego. While in the United States she studied the role immigration politics played in the 2008 Presidential election campaign.

Current Research Projects

‘Getting In: A comparative study of immigration and election campaigns in the US, New Zealand and Australia’.

Selection of Publications

McLeay, Elizabeth;  John Leslie; Kate McMillan (eds.) Rethinking Women and Politics: New Zealand and Comparative Perspectives, Wellington, VUW Press, Forthcoming August 2009.

McMillan, Kate ‘Newsflash! Men and Women Still Unequal’ in McLeay et al. (eds.), Rethinking Women and Politics: New Zealand and Comparative Perspectives, Wellington, VUW Press, Forthcoming August 2009.

McMillan, Kate, ‘Irregular Migration: New Zealand’s experience and response’, New Zealand International Review, Vol. XXXIII, No. 4, July/August 2008, pp. 2-6.

McMillan, Kate, 'Winning the Metadebate: New Zealand's 2005 televised leaders' debates in comparative perspective', in Stephen Levine and Nigel S. Roberts, (eds), The Baubles of Office, Wellington, VUW Press, February 2007.

McMillan, Kate, Politics and the Media in New Zealand (ed.), A special issue of Political Science, Palmerston North, Dunmore Press, 2005.

McMillan, Kate, 'A review of "Dangerous Enthusiasms" by Robin Gauld and Shaun Goldfinch', in Political Science, Vol. 58, no. 2, December 2006.

McMillan, Kate, 'Immigration Policy' in Raymond Miller (ed) New Zealand Politics and Government, (4th edition), Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 2006.

McMillan, Kate, 'Racism and Political Bias on Talkback Radio in New Zealand: Assessing the Evidence,' in Political Science, Vol. 57, No. 2, December 2005, pp. 75-92.

McMillan, Kate. ‘Immigration and citizenship debates of the 1990s’ in Andrew D. Trlin and Paul Spoonley, New Zealand and International Migration, Vol. 4, 2005.

McMillan, Kate. ‘Developing Citizens: Citizens, Subjects and Aliens and New Zealand Citizenship Policy since 1840’, in McPherson, Pearson and Spoonely, Tangata, Tangata, Palmerston North, Dunmore Press, 2005.

McMillan, Kate. ‘Non-indigenous minority rights in the neo-liberal state: the New Zealand experience’, in Pluralism and the Law, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 2004.

Conference Papers

'New Zealand's response to human trafficking', presented as the New Zealand representative at the Human Trafficking Study Group of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific, Manila, Philippines, July 7-9 2006.

'Debating Democracy: New Zealand's televised election debates' New Zealand Political Studies Association Conference, University of Canterbury, August 28, 2006.

'The Media and Political Debate in New Zealand', Panelist with John Campbell, Richard Harman and Jim Tully, New Zealand Political Studies Association Conference, University of Canterbury, August 29, 2006.

Supervision

Kate is currently supervising two MA students who are studying an aspect of international immigration, one MA student who is looking at the media management strategies of the US and UK government at the time of the US-led invasion of Iraq, and co-supervising one PhD student who is looking at the relationship between economic growth and internal migration within China.

Administrative Duties

Member of the FHSS Leave Committee 2006-

Current Teaching

POLS 218 – Politics and the Media in New Zealand

POLS 364: Comparative election campaigns

POLS 430: The Politics of International Migration

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