Does Employment Status Vary by Demographics? An Exploratory Study of Former Refugees Resettled in Australia

Khawaja, Nigar G.; Hebbani, Aparna

doi:10.1080/0312407x.2017.1376103

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“…For example, a small-scale study on refugees living in the northern Australian city of Brisbane found that local language proficiency is not a significant predictor of employment (Correa-Velez et al, 2015). Such findings contradict prior research that found strong local language skills to be crucial for refugees' securing employment (Arendt et al, 2020;de Vroome & van Tubergen, 2010;Fang et al, 2018;Khawaja & Hebbani, 2018). These inconsistencies in the literature raise the need to investigate the roles of language proficiency for refugees' economic integration in terms of employment outcomes.…”

Section: Existing Literaturementioning

confidence: 91%

English skills and early labour market integration: Evidence from humanitarian migrants in Australia

Cheng

Wang

Jiang

et al. 2021

International Migration

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Section: Existing Literaturementioning

confidence: 91%

English skills and early labour market integration: Evidence from humanitarian migrants in Australia

Cheng

Wang

Jiang

et al. 2021

International Migration

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“…Demographic characteristics, such as gender and age, are salient factors in finding and maintaining employment (Khawaja and Hebbani 2018; Potocky‐Tripodi 2003) in all receiving countries, regardless of the country's level of economic development (e.g. Danso 2002; Smit and Rugunanan 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Danso 2002; Smit and Rugunanan 2014). In most cases, refugee women were less likely than men to be employed (Bloch 2008; Ivlevs and Veliziotis 2018; Khawaja and Hebbani 2018; Knappert et al . 2018; Northcote et al .…”

Section: Individual‐level Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unveiling theCanvas Ceiling: A Multidisciplinary Literature Review of Refugee Employment and Workforce Integration

Lee

Szkudlarek

Nguyen

et al. 2020

Int J Management Reviews

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Increasing levels of displacement and the need to integrate refugees in the workforce pose new challenges to organizations and societies. Extant research on refugee employment and workforce integration currently resides across various disconnected disciplines, posing a significant challenge for management scholars to contribute to timely and relevant solutions. In this paper, we endeavour to address this challenge by reviewing and synthesizing multidisciplinary literature on refugee employment and workforce integration. Using a relational framework, we organize our findings around three levels of analysis -institutional, organizational and individual -to outline the complexity of factors affecting refugees' employment outcomes. Based on our analysis, we introduce and elaborate on the phenomenon of the canvas ceiling -a systemic, multilevel barrier to refugee workforce integration and professional advancement. The primary contributions of this paper are twofold. First, we map and integrate the multidisciplinary findings on the challenges of refugee workforce integration. Second, we provide management scholarship with a future research agenda to address the knowledge gap identified in this review and advance practical developments in this domain.

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“…'Mainstream' services may have little understanding of the unique experiences and skills of people from refugee backgrounds [49]. Overall settlement outcomes may differ depending on various factors including, for example, employment [50], gender [51], age [52], or housing [53].…”

Section: Regional Resettlement In Australiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Integration and social determinants of health and wellbeing for people from refugee backgrounds resettled in a rural town in South Australia: a qualitative study

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Background There has been a recent focus on resettlement of migrants and refugee in rural settings in Australia and elsewhere. Rural resettlement is seen as an opportunity to revitalise rural communities, to fill the needs of employers in these areas, and to provide a welcoming community within which new arrivals can integrate and settle. However, challenges to rural resettlement have been identified including difficulties securing employment, discrimination and social isolation. These challenges can affect resettlement outcomes including health and wellbeing, though relatively little research has examined these links. In this paper we explored experiences of people from refugee background settling in a rural Australian town, examining interconnections between social determinants of health (SDH) and integration. Methods Face-to-face interviews were conducted with 44 participants from Southeast Asia and Africa in a rural setting in South Australia, covering experiences of resettlement and impacts on health and wellbeing. Participants were recruited through existing connections within the community and snowball sampling. Audio recorded data were transcribed verbatim and analysed using framework thematic analysis. Results The study findings revealed a mixture of settlement experiences for participants across a range of elements of SDH and integration. A sense of safety and some elements of social connectedness and support were key enablers for integration and health and wellbeing, with main challenges including limitations in employment opportunities, mismatched education provision, experiences of discrimination and constrained access to services. Conclusions Challenges experienced by refugees resettled in rural areas can affect integration, health and wellbeing and subsequent onward migration intentions. Attention to broader socioeconomic, cultural and environmental conditions, alongside tailored settlement support policies and practices for individual rural resettlement sites, is required to support integration and health and wellbeing.

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Does Employment Status Vary by Demographics? An Exploratory Study of Former Refugees Resettled in Australia

Cited by 21 publications

References 16 publications

English skills and early labour market integration: Evidence from humanitarian migrants in Australia

English skills and early labour market integration: Evidence from humanitarian migrants in Australia

Unveiling theCanvas Ceiling: A Multidisciplinary Literature Review of Refugee Employment and Workforce Integration

Integration and social determinants of health and wellbeing for people from refugee backgrounds resettled in a rural town in South Australia: a qualitative study

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