Integration of humanitarian migrants into the host country labour market: evidence from Australia

Delaporte, Isaure; Piracha, Matloob

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2018.1429901

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“…Finding employment was further compounded by lack of “Oz Experience” and the lack of recognition of previous educational and professional qualifications (Collins and Low, 2010; Delaporte and Piracha, 2018). Financial and language constraints prevented participants from undertaking courses that would enable them to continue in their previous career paths or choose a preferred option.…”

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“…In Australia, a segmented labour market allocates bottom jobs to “racially and culturally” visible migrants regardless of their “human capital” (Nahid and Shamsuddin, 2001; Collins, 2003; Colic‐Peisker and Tilbury, 2006; Gaillard and Hughes, 2014). As a consequence of discrimination, refugees with pre‐migration work experience do not perform better than those without (Delaporte and Piracha, 2018) – a distinct push factor for refugee entrepreneurship (Pio, 2007; Baycan‐Levent and Nijkamp, 2009; Collins and Low, 2010).…”

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DIY Entrepreneurship? – Self‐reliance for Women Refugees in Australia

Huq

Venugopal

2020

International Migration

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In this paper, we call for a re‐examination of the self‐reliance ideology based on a neoliberal perspective to make policies for refugee women's (self‐)employment and integration. We use a social constructionist perspective to conduct a narrative analysis of data from the lived experience of twelve women refugee entrepreneurs. Three prominent themes emerge from the women’s own narratives of their entrepreneurial journey – self‐reconstruction, social capital, and resilience. Our findings reveal the complexities of self‐reconstruction and socialization as experienced by refugee women entrepreneurs – for whom “push” factors take precedence over “pull” factors with the explicit understanding that the onus is on them to survive with their own resilience. We argue that offering people hope of a new life means offering them meaningful choices, built on forms of economic activity whose sustainability over the long term is evidenced by the positive supports available to make sure economic activity succeeds.

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DIY Entrepreneurship? – Self‐reliance for Women Refugees in Australia

Huq

Venugopal

2020

International Migration

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“…Cheng et al (2019) used the first two BNLA survey waves to examine a series of human capital indicators, finding that humanitarian migrants' higher proficiency in spoken English is associated with an increased probability of their labour force participation. Using the first three waves of the BNLA survey data, Delaporte and Piracha (2018) found that English proficiency was associated with access to (stable) employment, the wage/earnings level and the educationoccupation mismatch. Yet these studies did not attempt to identify the underlying causal relationship nor the mechanisms through which English proficiency affects labour market outcomes.…”

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“…Most existing studies on the labour market outcomes of humanitarian migrants in Australia focus on ethnically defined refugee groups or narrowly defined refugee groups, which exclude other humanitarian migrants. Two recent exceptions are Cheng et al (2019) and Delaporte and Piracha (2018), who examined the general relationships between human capital and labour market outcomes using representative panel data of humanitarian migrants in Australia. However, as we will elaborate shortly, these scholars did not examine the underlying mechanisms of these relationships.…”

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

Cheng

Wang

Jiang

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International Migration

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“…Most research to date has focused on individual characteristics of refugees or on institutional mechanisms for explaining their LM success (Bakker et al, 2017; Bansak et al, 2018; Bevelander, 2011; Delaporte and Piracha, 2018; Hainmueller et al, 2015; Verwiebe et al, 2018). However, we know little about the efficacy of ALMP for refugees’ LMI (for laudable exceptions, see Lundborg and Skedinger, 2016) and even less about employers’ preferences and whether employers consider ALMP participation an asset on a CV.…”

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Integrating refugees through active labour market policy: A comparative survey experiment

Fossati

Liechti

2020

Journal of European Social Policy

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In the wake of the recent increase in the inflows of refugees to Europe, governments have made considerable investments in public policies aimed at facilitating the labour market integration of refugees. Despite these efforts, the labour market participation of refugees remains low. This situation raises the question of whether employers actually appreciate these public policies and whether refugees’ participation in specific active labour market policies (ALMPs), such as work practice or wage subsidies, increases their likelihood of being hired. In this article, we take a novel approach and combine employers’ evaluations of specific ALMPs with their attitudes towards refugees. We argue that these labour market policies can only be successful when employers hold positive attitudes towards refugees in the first place. We investigate this question by means of a factorial survey experiment with employers in Austria, Germany and Sweden. Our results show that, indeed, employers’ evaluations of fictional refugee candidates who participated in ALMPs are influenced by their attitudes towards this group. Participation in these policy measures is regarded positively only by those employers who already hold positive attitudes towards refugees.

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Integration of humanitarian migrants into the host country labour market: evidence from Australia

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Cited by 36 publications

References 47 publications

DIY Entrepreneurship? – Self‐reliance for Women Refugees in Australia

DIY Entrepreneurship? – Self‐reliance for Women Refugees in Australia

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

Integrating refugees through active labour market policy: A comparative survey experiment

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