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Charlotte Bedford

Charlotte Bedford is a research fellow with the Development Policy Centre and is based in New Zealand.

RSE worker in Queenstown in 2019 (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade-SmugMug)

13 April 2023

Pacific seasonal workers’ participation in the RSE scheme: the numbers and their implications

by Charlotte Bedford and Richard Bedford

Tongan RSE workers waiting for rescue during Cyclone Gabrielle (Coconut Wireless Aotearoa-Facebook)

1 March 2023

Cyclone Gabrielle: Pacific seasonal workers picking up the pieces in New Zealand

by Charlotte Bedford

Participants at the 5th PLMAM in Apia, Samoa (PACER Plus-Facebook)

7 December 2022

The Pacific Labour Mobility Annual Meeting: finding its feet

by Charlotte Bedford and Evie Sharman

Samoan workers on ladders in a New Zealand orchard

7 November 2022

Growing pains: Samoa’s participation in New Zealand and Australia’s Pacific labour schemes

by Charlotte Bedford

Vineyard in New Zealand (Richard Bedford)

13 September 2022

The RSE scheme: raising standards to change the narrative

by Charlotte Bedford and Richard Bedford

RSE workers in New Zealand (Richard Bedford)

12 August 2022

Winter measures: supporting RSE employers and workers

by Charlotte Bedford

18 March 2022

Why absconding hasn’t been a problem in New Zealand’s RSE

by Charlotte Bedford

Photography of roadside sign in a field that reads 'Looking for seasonal work?'

21 February 2022

New Zealand’s summer harvest woes

by Charlotte Bedford

Timote Ake, who lost his house and all his belongings, on Mango, Ha'apai (Piokalafi Fakaosi)

1 February 2022

Tonga’s volcanic eruption: impacts on seasonal workers in Australia and New Zealand

by Rochelle Bailey, Telusa Tu'i'onetoa, Gemma Malungahu and Charlotte Bedford

Marine Training Centre, Tarawa, Kiribati (Richard Bedford)

22 December 2021

Has COVID-19 ended seafaring for Kiribati?

by Maria Borovnik, Charlotte Bedford and Rochelle Bailey

Auckland Airport (Chun Xia-Flickr)

10 December 2021

Quarantine-free travel for RSE workers: the challenges of two-way labour flows

by Charlotte Bedford

Kiwifruit orchard, New Zealand (Sheila Thomson-Flickr)

9 December 2021

An unseasonable year: Pacific RSE workers to New Zealand during 2021

by Charlotte Bedford

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