The Employment of Skilled Migrants on Temporary 457 Visas in Australia: Emerging Issues

Bahn, Susanne; Barratt‐Pugh, Llandis; Yap, Ghialy

doi:10.1080/10301763.2012.10669447

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“…Bahn et al, 2012;Toh and Quinlan, 2009) and some commentaries on the changing regulations (Howe, 2010;Tham and Campbell, 2011). The 457 scheme is confined to workers with occupational skills, but it has attracted controversy first because of concern about its value as a remedy for skill shortages (Toner and Woolley, 2008) and second because of concern about the risk of poor wages and employment conditions (Bissett and Landau, 2008;Campbell, 2010;Kinnaird, 2006;Toh and Quinlan, 2009;Williams, 2007).…”

Section: Temporary Migrant Workers In Australia: the 457 Visamentioning

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Temporary migrant nurses in Australia: Sites and sources of precariousness

Boese

Campbell

Roberts

et al. 2013

The Economic and Labour Relations Review

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Temporary migrant workers are widely regarded as a precarious group of workers. This precariousness is often traced back to the sphere of employment, though recent research also points to the implications of the limited rights entailed by temporary migrant status. This article draws on empirical work among registered nurses who have participated in the Australian 457 visa scheme -the major programme for temporary migrant workers in Australia. Using a range of empirical sources, including in-depth interviews with 26 temporary migrant nurses, we examine whether these nurses experience precariousness and locate the sites and sources of precariousness. The article draws attention to the importance of the regulatory context that defines different pathways from the country of departure to employment in the Australian healthcare system. We suggest that, although temporary migrant nurses are well integrated within the healthcare workforce in terms of formal wages and conditions, other stages in their migration pathways can be associated with precariousness. This in turn has significant impact on experiences at work and outside the workplace.

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Section: Temporary Migrant Workers In Australia: the 457 Visamentioning

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Temporary migrant nurses in Australia: Sites and sources of precariousness

Boese

Campbell

Roberts

et al. 2013

The Economic and Labour Relations Review

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“…and their families in the host country (Bahn, Barratt-Pugh and Yap 2012;Marginson 2013). In the case of this study, migrants have various resources at their disposal as 'middling' transnationals and 'skilled migrants', and few explicit legal restrictions on their ability to migrate with their children.…”

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Childcare, Mobility Decisions and ‘Staggered’ Migration

Westcott¹,

Robertson²

2017

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Migration to Australia is increasingly ‘multi-step’ or ‘staggered’ (Robertson 2013), often involving extended periods on temporary visas before permanent residency is achieved. This paper explores how the uncertainty around long-term migration outcomes that structure staggered migration impacts on how migrants’ make decisions about mobility that concern their children and their care. This paper utilises data from in-depth narrative interviews with Asian migrants in Australia who have experienced ‘staggered’ migration across multiple visa categories. It explores three key mobility decisions migrants make around children: bringing their children to Australia; mobility of families and family members for child-care arrangements; and considering their children’s future mobility and citizenship. We argue that multiple factors come into play in these decisions about children, mobility and care. Specific policy constraints of temporary visas (such as lack of access to subsidised social services or family reunion) shape options, but migrants’ overall sense of social and economic security in the long-term is also significant.<br /><br />

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“…9 These types of practices flourish when a government lacks enforcement capacity, unions ignore this type of worker, and migrant workers either do not know or do not understand their employment rights and benefit entitlements or are misled by their employers (Bahn et al, 2012;Gabaix & Laibson, 2006). People working in a country other than their own could be subject to discriminatory labour practices enabled by the status that governments accord to migrant workers.…”

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Migrant workers, self‐reliance, and the propensity to hold income protection insurance by country of residence

Clark

McGill

Cuñado

2018

Geographical Research

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Utilising a large comparative survey across 11 countries, it is shown that country effects condition the individual uptake of income protection insurance and that shared attributes, including labour market status, are important factors in determining the take‐up of income protection insurance, whatever the respondents' country of residence. We observed differences in the respondents' coping strategies, including self‐reliance, and were able to distinguish between migrant workers and those who work in their country of origin, along with the “special” case of the Australian respondents. These findings have implications for the ongoing debate on the labour market effects of globalisation and the significance of national institutions and regulatory practices.

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The Employment of Skilled Migrants on Temporary 457 Visas in Australia: Emerging Issues

Cited by 16 publications

References 16 publications

Temporary migrant nurses in Australia: Sites and sources of precariousness

Temporary migrant nurses in Australia: Sites and sources of precariousness

Childcare, Mobility Decisions and ‘Staggered’ Migration

Migrant workers, self‐reliance, and the propensity to hold income protection insurance by country of residence

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