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
	Identifying the stock of middle-level skills in the Pacific: the case of Fiji Richard Curtain, Australian National University
	Declining technical graduate employment outcomes amidst skills shortages Ryan Edwards & Tunye Qui, Australian National University
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
	Pacific Labour Scheme: Preliminary Examination into the Implications and Impacts of Family Accompaniment Michelle Carnegie & Luke Jeffress, Pacific Labour Facility
	For the region yet to come: climate change and the decolonisation of mobility governance in the Pacific Samid Suliman, Griffith University
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
	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
	Pasifika trans-Tasman migration, mobility and wellbeing Ruth Faleolo, La Trobe University
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
	The Problem of Criminal Deportation and Reintegration in the Pacific Henrietta McNeill, Australian National University
4:50 pm	Closing remarks
5:00 pm	Workshop close

Registration for in person attendance

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Registration for online attendance

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How to attend via Zoom

1. Register for the session you would like to attend via the form above.
2. Login or sign up to Eventbrite. Make sure you use the same email address that you used for registration.
3. Click ‘Tickets’ icon at the top right-hand corner of the page.
4. Find ‘Pacific Migration Research Workshop’ and click ‘Go to online event page’.
5. 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.