Temporary migration
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Report
COVID-19 and cross-border mobility in the APEC region: addressing uncertainties at the border
This report presents an overview of COVID-19 border policies in the APEC region as of mid-late-2022, analyses travel trends to the region, and estimates the impacts of border policies on visitor arrivals.
Guide
Migrants in the Australian workforce: a guidebook for policy makers
The COVID crisis highlights how important migrant workers are to the Australian economy, yet the role migrants play in the jobs market is poorly understood. This guidebook seeks to fill that knowledge gap so policy-makers can reform the system to supercharge the economic benefits of...
Report
Fixing temporary skilled migration: a better deal for Australia
This report highlights how the current temporary skilled migration program in Australia is unpopular with the public, squanders many of the potential benefits of temporary skilled migration, and enables unscrupulous employers to exploit workers.
Report
Lives in limbo: the experiences of migrant workers navigating Australia’s unsettling migration system
This report draws upon over 700 surveys and 50 in-depth interviews with temporary visa holders revealing a broken migration system that sets workers up for exploitation and perpetual uncertainty.
Working paper
International migration to New Zealand historical themes and trends
This document aims to identify common or recurring themes in New Zealand’s immigration policy and key turning points.
Report
Senate Select Committee on Temporary Migration: final report
This inquiry was initiated to examine the impact temporary migration has on the Australian economy, wages and jobs, social cohesion and workplace rights and conditions. The primary recommendation stemming from this inquiry is that a comprehensive review be undertaken of Australia's visa system, with the...
Working paper
Immigration, productivity and wellbeing
This document presents the key issues concerning New Zealand's immigration system. It is a guide for those wishing to engage with and/or provide feedback to the Commission.
Report
Picking cherries: evidence on the effects of temporary and seasonal migrants on the New Zealand economy
This report looks at the evidence of the effects of migration policy on New Zealand’s top "frontier" firms.
Report
As if we weren't humans
This report presents findings from a July online survey of 6,105 international students and visa holders, on their experiences in Australia during COVID-19.
Working paper
Health care management in Australia’s and New Zealand’s seasonal worker schemes
This paper discusses the relatively untouched topic of temporary migrants’ health care management in Australia’s Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) and New Zealand’s Recognised Seasonal Employer Scheme (RSE), which are temporary seasonal worker schemes.
Report
Effects of temporary migration: shaping Australia’s society and economy
This report examines the facts around temporary migration, its importance to business and the economic benefits it delivers to Australians. While less often discussed than permanent migration, it is a significant and important part of Australia’s migration system.
Dataset
3419.0.55.001 - Microdata: Australian Census and Temporary Entrants Integrated Dataset, 2016
The 2016 Australian Census and Temporary Entrants Integrated Dataset (ACTEID) has been created by linking two rich sources of migrant data together, the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2016 Australian Census of Population and Housing and temporary visa holders data from the Department of Home Affairs...
Dataset
3419.0 - Insights from the Australian Census and Temporary Entrants Integrated Dataset, 2016
The 2016 Australian Census and Temporary Entrants Integrated Dataset (ACTEID) has been created by linking two rich sources of migrant data together, the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2016 Australian Census of Population and Housing and temporary visa holders data from the Department of Home Affairs...
Report
Towards a durable future: tackling labour challenges in the Australian horticulture industry
Interrogating both the extent of labour shortages in the horticulture industry for pickers, packers and graders and the level of non-compliance with labour standards, this report examines horticulture labour supply to develop an evidence base for analysing the effectiveness of existing practices and to identify...
Article
Comparing apples and oranges
Among the collateral damage of an early election – especially a double dissolution election – is the work of parliamentary committees. At 9am on 9 May, each and every committee of the forty-fourth parliament ceased to exist and many inquiries lapsed, their investigations unfinished. Having...
Audio
Foreign parents, Australian children
If a temporary migrant has a baby with an Australian, the baby is a citizen. But if the couple splits up, the foreign parent doesn't have the right to stay in Australia and stay close to their child. It's often up to the Immigration Minister...