Employment Niches for Recent Refugees: Segmented Labour Market in Twenty-first Century Australia

Colic-Peisker, Val; Tilbury, Farida

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“…Integration in the labor market is often difficult and there are high levels of unemployment. When forced migrants do have a job, moreover, this is usually low-status, low-paid, insecure, and physically demanding, resulting in widespread over-qualification of workers (e.g., Åslund et al, 2010;Colic-Peisker & Tilbury, 2006). Low levels of education or working skills, too, are frequently obstacles to labor integration (Hugo, 2011;Hussein et al, 2011;Wauters & Lambrecht, 2008) and often related to poor language skills (Connor, 2010;Lyon et al, 2007;Waxman, 2001).…”

Section: The Integration Of Forced Refugees Into Western Countriesmentioning

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The Integration of Forced Migrants Into the Italian Labor Market

Ortensi

2015

Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies

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Section: The Integration Of Forced Refugees Into Western Countriesmentioning

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The Integration of Forced Migrants Into the Italian Labor Market

Ortensi

2015

Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies

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“…Skill definition is further obstructed by the takenfor-granted degree of emotion work that facilitates workers' relationships with clients and the persistent gendering of this central element of care work 6,11,12 . The moral dimensions of care work, which rest on worker virtue and passivity, are discursively privileged over technical skill to counter justification for higher rates of pay 13 . Such exploitation is especially apparent in the case of low socioeconomic workers, including migrant and refugee women, whose employment opportunities are narrow 7,[14][15][16][17] .…”

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Challenges to the provision of community aged care services across rural Australia: perceptions of service managers

Savy¹,

Warburton²,

Hodgkin³

2017

Rural Remote Health

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A B S T R A C TIntroduction: The Australian community aged care sector is facing a growing workforce crisis, particularly in rural and regional areas. Its predominantly female workforce is ageing, and recruiting younger, skilled workers is proving difficult. The service sector, too, is proving highly complex and diverse as a result of contemporary aged care service reforms as well as ongoing difficulties in providing services to the growing numbers of older people living in Australia's rural areas. Despite these multiple challenges, there is a gap in research that explores how rural aged care services manage their day-to-day requirements for skilled workers across the diverse service sector. To address this gap, this article reports on the experiences and perceptions of a small sample of service managers whose organisations represent this diversity, and who are accountable for care provision in regional and rural locations. In such areas, recruitment and skill needs are contoured by disproportionate aged populations, distance and reduced service availability. Methods: Eleven service managers were interviewed as part of a larger project that examined the skill and training needs of community aged care workers within the Riverina, a rural region in New South Wales. Qualitative data drawn from semi-structured interviews were thematically analysed to identify the managers' individual needs for workers and skills in the context of location, service parameters and availability of other health and community services. Results: Thematic analysis of the interview data elicited three themes: services, roles and skill deployment; older workers and gendered roles; and barriers to recruitment. The findings illustrate the complexities that characterise the community aged care sector as a whole and the impact of these on individual services located in regional and rural parts of Australia. The participants © P Savy, J Warburton, S Hodgkin, 2017. A Licence to publish this material has been given to James Cook University, http://www.jcu.edu.au 2 reported diverse needs for worker skills in keeping with the particular level of service they provide. Significantly, their varying perceptions and practices reflect their preference for older, female workers; their reluctance to take on younger workers is negatively skewed by a lack of capacity to compete for, recruit and retain such workers and to offer incentives in the form of enhanced roles and career development. Conclusions: The findings highlight the conceptual ambiguities inherent in definitions of community aged care work as broadly skilled and uniformly sought across the sector. On the one hand, demands for more and better trained workers to meet growing client complexity locate care work as skilled. On the other, managers of narrowly defined service activities may rely on a diminishing workforce whose skills they downplay in gendered and lay terms. This contradiction corresponds with long-held conclusions about the gendered, exploitative reputation of care work, a characterisa...

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“…In Australia, newly arrived humanitarian migrants often experience institutional barriers erected by trade and professional associations and employers. Prejudice against foreign qualifications has been found to undermine formal qualification recognition and transferability, which prevent such migrants from securing adequate jobs (Marston 2004;Colic-Peisker & Tilbury 2006, 2007). In addition, in a segmented labour market that priviledges low-paid and low-skilled jobs, the better educated humanitarian migrants have been found to be less competitive than the lower educated (Colic-Peisker & Tilbury 2006; Settlement Services International 2016b).…”

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“…The existing studies find that humanitarian migrants have a strong desire and enormous potential to be active participants in the labour market, but they often encounter challenges that are distinct from those experienced by other migrants and Australian-born residents. These include, disrupted premigration education and employment, low transferability of skills, poor health and wellbeing, and discrimination in the host society (Chiswick et al 2005;Colic-Peisker & Tilbury 2006, 2007Torezani et al 2008;McMichael et al 2015). Using linked administrative data and personal tax records, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (2016) found that the median employee income of humanitarian migrants was well below the median employee income of all Australian taxpayers, even after ten or more years of residence.…”

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Labour Force Participation and Employment of Humanitarian Migrants: Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia Longitudinal Data

2017

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThis study uses the longitudinal data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between human capital and labour market participation and employment status among recently arrived/approved humanitarian migrants. It includes attention to the heterogeneity of labour force participation and employment status across genders and also migration pathways. We find that the likelihood of participating in the labour force is higher for those who had preimmigration paid job experience, completed study/job training and have job searching knowledge/skills in Australia and possess higher proficiency in spoken English. We find that the chance of getting a paid job is negatively related to having better pre-immigration education, but it is positively related to having unpaid work experience and job searching skills in Australia, and better health.

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Employment Niches for Recent Refugees: Segmented Labour Market in Twenty-first Century Australia

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Challenges to the provision of community aged care services across rural Australia: perceptions of service managers

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