Youth as Temporary Workers Abroad: The Experiences of Australia, Canada and New Zealand

Mobility Becoming Migration: Understanding Youth Spatiality in the Twenty-First Century

“…Another valuable observation concerns the interpolation of leisure and notions of selfactualization, especially into work and training abroad. In this book, being able to think of the experience as an extended holiday and an opportunity for self-improvement is cited at an inspiration for undertaking vocational mobility by Pantea (2021), and in temporary work migration to Australia, Canada and New Zealand by Ghazarian (2021). Further obfuscation of hidden costs may take place through disguising a migration pathway as some kind of a 'rite of passage' (see also Ho et al, 2014;Yoon, 2014).…”

Working towards Mobility

“…Chapter 26 by Peter G. Ghazarian meanwhile looks at temporary work schemes in Australia, Canada and New Zealand, and some of the costs and benefits for participants. This includes an elaboration of how temporary worker programmes function, the restrictions on who may participate and the prominence of these programmes in the national discourses of the host countries, alongside discussion of the experiences of individual participants (Ghazarian, 2021).…”

“…This can be imaginative, with an introduction of ideas and a broadening of future parameters taking place, or more literal in cases were involvement in one mobility phase facilitates access to others. We can also see that the temporality of this work is purposeful; for example, in his chapter, Ghazarian (2021) outlines some of the legislative aspects which attempt to keep young people's mobility separate from the migration of 'adults,' including in some cases exclusion from the 'permanent' labour market. This kind of chauvinism, if directed towards certain national or ethnic groups, or to women for that matter, would invite fierce criticism, but when directed at youth, structural inferiority of migration condition and status seems politically acceptable.…”