Australia is a diverse nation, with almost half of the population either born overseas or having at least one parent born overseas.
A significant rise of temporary migration pathways into Australia over the course of the last two decades, has also created a transient and diverse range of migrant workers.
1 in 4 workers in Australia are immigrants
50% of Australians are immigrants or have a migrant parent
The Migration, Ethno-Racial, Cultural and Intersectionality@Work Research Group (MERCI@Work Research Group) is a multidisciplinary research community focused on issues related to permanent and temporary migration and cross-cultural and workplace diversity management.
We work with the national and international research community, business groups, and government and non-government agencies, particularly around our focus research areas.
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The benefits and challenges of immigration
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The canvas ceiling - Overcoming the systemic employment issues
The MERCI@Work Research Group conducts research in all aspects of migrants’ employment including:
In 2017 the number of refugees arriving in Australia effectively doubled the intake of previous decades. This is because most of the special one-off intake of 12,000 Syrian Conflict refugees that was announced by Prime Minister Abbott in 2015 in fact arrived in 2017. In addition, the annual intake of humanitarian entrants was increased to 16,250 in 2017-18. Most of these newly-arrived refugee families settled in NSW, Victoria and Queensland.
As part of a study on Settlement Outcomes of Refugee Families in Australia, funded by the Australian Research Council, and led by Professor Jock Collins (University of Technology Sydney), Professor Carol Reid (Western Sydney University), and Associate Professor Dimitria Groutsis (University of Sydney), three years of data collection has been completed.
With the assistance of partners in the project, we interviewed and surveyed newly arrived refugee families from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, in metropolitan and regional locations in two states: New South Wales, partnered with Settlement Services International; and Queensland, partnered with Multicultural Development Australia Ltd, and Access Community Services.
AMES Australia, a further partner in the research, interviewed and surveyed newly arrived refugee families from Syria and Iraq, in metropolitan Melbourne and in regional Shepparton, Victoria.
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Presented by: Mustafa F. Özbilgin, Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Brunel Business School, London.
This is the first report in a series on immigration policy from the Grattan Institute.
The webinar is hosted by the University of Sydney Business School’s Sydney Employment Relations Research Group (SERRG) and the Migrants@Work Research Group.
The goal of the workshop is to discuss working manuscripts with the aim of submission for review at the Special Issue. The workshop will accommodate participation from authors in various time-zones.
Dr Rupa Banerjee, Ted Rogers School of Business Management, Ryerson University
This paper utilizes a life course approach to investigate the long-term effects of immigrants’ early adverse labor market experiences in the host country on their earnings
Dr Lee Martin, Deakin University
This seminar presents a theory of multicultural leadership effectiveness with reference to literatures on leadership, international management and team diversity.
Groutsis D, Martin L, Lattouf A, Soutphommasane T, Lumby C, Young N, Crawford J, and Robertson A 2022 ‘Who Gets to Tell Australian Stories? 2.0’ Media Diversity Australia
Links have also been established with key scholars/research centres in the field of migration overseas:
