The ANU Development Policy Centre will host a one-day workshop with research papers presented for discussion with an audience of researchers, policymakers, and practitioners.
Topics of interest include:
- Pacific Islanders’ participation in and access to temporary and permanent migration programs, and its social and economic impacts;
- Employment, remittances, economic mobility, and wellbeing of Pacific Islanders in Australia and New Zealand; and
- Regional labour markets, particularly horticulture, viticulture, and agriculture in Australia and New Zealand.
This event will be held in a hybrid format. You can attend in person or online.
Program
8:30 am – 9:00 am | Registration |
9:00 am – 9:15 am | Welcome remarks |
9:15 am – 10:45 am | Future labour demand and skills |
Labour mobility with vocational skill: Australian demand and Pacific supply Michael Clemens, Center for Global Development and IZA & Satish Chand, University of New South Wales |
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Identifying the stock of middle-level skills in the Pacific: the case of Fiji Richard Curtain, Australian National University |
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Declining technical graduate employment outcomes amidst skills shortages Ryan Edwards & Tunye Qui, Australian National University |
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10:45 am – 11:15 am | Morning tea |
11:15 am – 12:45 pm | Contemporary Pacific migration and impacts |
COVID-19 border closures – impacts on Pacific seasonal workers’ health and wellbeing Rochelle Bailey & Charlotte Bedford, Australian National University |
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Pacific Labour Scheme: Preliminary Examination into the Implications and Impacts of Family Accompaniment Michelle Carnegie & Luke Jeffress, Pacific Labour Facility |
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For the region yet to come: climate change and the decolonisation of mobility governance in the Pacific Samid Suliman, Griffith University |
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12:45 pm – 1:45 pm | Lunch break |
1:45 pm – 3:15 pm | Pasifika diaspora and wellbeing |
Fiscal and non-fiscal ideas of responsibility amongst Samoan diaspora in Greater Brisbane Laura Simpson Reeves, University of Queensland |
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Impact of PAC policy on Pacific women’s health and wellbeing: The experiences of Kiribati migrants Rose Namoori-Sinclair, Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington |
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Pasifika trans-Tasman migration, mobility and wellbeing Ruth Faleolo, La Trobe University |
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3:15 pm – 3:45 pm | Afternoon tea |
3:45 pm – 4:45 pm | Pasifika diaspora and wellbeing (cont.) |
The production of precariousness and the racialisation of Pacific workers in the Australian horticultural industry Makiko Nishitani, Martina Boese & Helen Lee, La Trobe University |
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The Problem of Criminal Deportation and Reintegration in the Pacific Henrietta McNeill, Australian National University |
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4:50 pm | Closing remarks |
5:00 pm | Workshop close |
Registration for in person attendance
Registration for online attendance
How to attend via Zoom
- Register for the session you would like to attend via the form above.
- Login or sign up to Eventbrite. Make sure you use the same email address that you used for registration.
- Click ‘Tickets’ icon at the top right-hand corner of the page.
- Find ‘Pacific Migration Research Workshop’ and click ‘Go to online event page’.
- Click a relevant session to join. It will direct you to Zoom.
Presentations will be recorded and available after the event on the Development Policy Centre website.
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