Despite the fact that the Australia Pacific Training Coalition (APTC) is meant to promote labour mobility, and despite the desire of most of its students to migrate, few of its graduates have actually moved to Australia for work. APTC’s most recent efforts to promote labour mobility have focused on...
The Australia Pacific Training Coalition (APTC) is a major Australian government foreign aid initiative, commencing in 2008, that has spent over $350 million, and has turned out over 15,000 graduates with Australian qualifications in skilled occupations from carpentry to plumbing, cooking, and...
In the first blog in this two-part series, we showed that net migration rates to Australia and New Zealand from Samoa are about equal, but that nearly all Samoans who migrate to Australia (96%) do so after becoming citizens of New Zealand. Clearly, Samoans migrate to New Zealand because they can...
First-generation migrants make up 30% of the Australian population. But those from the Pacific make up only slightly more than half of one percent of the Australian population. Almost half of our Pacific immigrants are from Fiji, and one-fifth from Samoa. It is not surprising that Fijians dominate...
In 2019, in a Devpolicy Blog titled ‘Go betweens needed to troubleshoot Pacific labour mobility...
On 27 November 2020, the New Zealand Government announced the first major border exception for...
On Wednesday, we launched our report Governance of the Seasonal Worker Programme in Australia and...
Seasonal labour mobility – temporary Pacific migrants working on Australian and New Zealand farms –...
New Zealand’s summer harvest period is fast approaching and with it the need for seasonal labour...
In the 18 months I have been writing about labour migration from Timor-Leste to Australia a...
