Effective migration policy is not about imposing new patterns of movement, but about making existing ones safer, fairer, and more beneficial for all.
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Questions persist over ethical recruitment from countries already facing healthcare workforce shortages.
There has been a rebalancing of global trade dynamics with wide-ranging consequences for international business.
Nigeria’s migration policies lack coordination. They are reactive rather than proactive.
The ‘exodus’ from capital cities amounts to 0.06% of their populations – similar to recent years – and people are still moving to the cities. What’s missing is growth driven by international migrants.
Long before coronavirus hit Australia we were moving less between states and regions. Some worry about economic impacts, but a greater concern is inequality if some people find themselves ‘trapped’.
To be a good neighbour Australia should invest in a sustainable temporary labour migration scheme for Pacific nations.
What does it mean to have a cosmopolitan identity?
In some significant ways, Americans have fewer avenues for advancement than the characters of Mad Men do.
As a policy response to unemployment and structural change, incentives for workers to relocate in search of work have been pushing higher up the policy agenda. This has been the trend since the World Bank’s…
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Senior Lecturer, School of Sociology, Australian National University
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Professor of Political Economy; Deputy Director, Australian Centre for Gender Equality and Inclusion at Work; and, co-convenor Work + Family Policy Roundtable, University of Sydney
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Professor and Head of School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor, Queensland Centre for Population Research, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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