Immigrant Teachers in Australia

Collins, Jock; Reid, Carol

doi:10.5130/ccs.v4i2.2553

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“…The international mobility of highly educated and qualified people is growing, with teachers playing an important role in the labour market (Reid & Collins, 2013). In many western countries, research can be found on teachers with foreign teaching qualifications and their integration with the educational system (Collins & Reid, 2012;Deters, 2011;Dewilde, 2013;Schmidt & Schneider, 2016). One issue that has been raised are that the skills and experiences of the newly arrived teachers are not recognised by employers and colleagues.…”

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A Fast Track course for newly arrived immigrant teachers in Sweden

Economou

2020

Teaching Education

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The Swedish welfare state has social protection policies focusing on labour market participation. Initiatives have been introduced after the increase of asylum seekers in 2015, focusing on so-called 'fast tracks'. In this paper I consider one of these fast track courses aimed at newly arrived teachers wishing to continue their teaching career in Sweden. Based on interviews and observational data I have followed one cohort throughout their course. The research aims for an understanding of the teachers' experiences from their own perspective as well as from the stakeholders'. The theoretical framework is mainly taken from the concepts of the capital market introduced by Bourdieu. In light of the findings, while the education the participants receive may be useful in order to understand the educational system, many are disappointed to find that fast track courses do not give them a clear advantage in terms of finding a faster way into the Swedish labour market. In addition, there are tendencies for local teacher communities to devalue the qualifications of this group. Generally, the emphasis on 'fast tracks' may ignore the need of individuals to complete formal Swedish education and to navigate complex processes of nationally set standards of professional requirements, which impede a fast integration process.

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A Fast Track course for newly arrived immigrant teachers in Sweden

Economou

2020

Teaching Education

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“…These patterns are also seen among migrants (see for instance, Collins and Reid 2012). Near universal ascription of the attributes associated with caring and the responsibilities of social reproduction to women means that irrespective of country of origin/destination, migrants face similar gendered workplaces.…”

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Gendered Migrations and Global Social Reproduction

2015

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“…Furthermore, receiving countries also differentiate based on the specialisations needed, thus diversifying the emigration phenomenon (Cooper -Alvarado 2006). For example, Australia lost large numbers of Australian trained teachers to countries like the UK, but compensated for it by receiving teachers from New Zeeland, Ireland, Germany, and other countries (Collins -Reid 2012). If Australia can be, overall, a positive example of teacher immigration experience, there are also less successful stories.…”

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Understanding the emigration propensity of Romanian teachers: Does ethnicity play a role?

2017

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Mass migration was, is, and will always be an important topic of discussion regardless of whether it is economically, socially, or politically motivated. This is certainly a matter of great concern for Romania, currently Europe’s largest sender of migrants to Western Europe. Considering that the educational system should be of the uttermost priority, we addressed the issue of emigration propensity among Romanian teachers making use of data from our own nationwide survey. Bivariate logistic models were employed to identify the main factors behind the emigration decisions of pre-university teachers. Aiming to enrich the narrow economic perspective, we adopted a novelty approach by focusing on an overlooked determinant in emigration research studies, namely ethnicity in relation to nationality. Among Romania’s minorities, Hungarians are the most important ethnic group, accounting for 6.1% of the population, hence we explored their migration behaviour compared to Romanian ethnics. The results from the logistic regression models indicate significant differences regarding the factors that trigger the intention to initiate the emigration process for our subjects, based on their ethnicity. We found that teachers of Hungarian ethnicity display 50.6% less propensity to emigrate compared to the ones of Romanian ethnicity and we were able to shape distinct emigration profiles for the two groups.

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Immigrant Teachers in Australia

Cited by 46 publications

References 15 publications

A Fast Track course for newly arrived immigrant teachers in Sweden

A Fast Track course for newly arrived immigrant teachers in Sweden

Gendered Migrations and Global Social Reproduction

Understanding the emigration propensity of Romanian teachers: Does ethnicity play a role?

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