Organizer 1
Paul Spoonley
Professor of Sociology / Regional Director (Auckland)
Massey University, New Zealand Asia-Pacific Migration Research Network
College of Humanities and Social Sciences Massey University Private Bag 102-904 North Shore Mail Centre New Zealand

Tel: 64-9-441-8171
Fax: 64-9-441-8169
Email:P.Spoonley@massey.ac.nz







Workshop description:
This workshop aims to explore the issues of the migration of various categories of workers in the Asia-Pacific region, with a particular focus on skilled migration in Australia and New Zealand. As with other regions, the issues of skilled migration flows – both in terms of departing migrants but also in terms of the settlement and the contribution of migrants – provide vexed policy issues in the region. In the case of Australia, such policy issues relate to export education and the contribution of students post-completion of their education, and the entrepreneurial activities of migrant communities. In the New Zealand case, one of the recent significant policy developments has been the question of attracting back or accessing a major overseas-located (Australia, UK) talent pools of New Zealand citizens.





Presenters / participants /other information
Chair:
James Jupp
Australian National University,
Australia
jupp@coombs.anu.edu.au

Nonja Peters
Director, MERC Research Unit,
Curtin University of Technology, Australia
N.Peters@curtin.edu.au
“Immigrant Enterprise in Australia: Whose Business Is It?”


Lesleyanne Hawthorn
University of Melbourne, Australia lhawt@unimelb.edu.au
“The Impact of Students on Australia’s Contemporary Skill Migration Program”


Robyn Iredale
Chair, Asia-Pacific Migration Research Network, University of Wollongong, Australia
riredale@uow.edu.au
“Diversity and Exclusion: Skilled Migrants and the Medical Profession in Australia”


Paul Spoonley
Deputy Chair, Asia-Pacific Migration Research Network,Massey University,
New Zealand
P.Spoonley@massey.ac.nz
“New Zealand’s Skilled Diaspora. Harnessing Expatriate Talent Pools”




Summary:
This workshop aims to explore the issues of the migration of various categories of workers in the Asia-Pacific region, with a particular focus on skilled migration in Australia and New Zealand. As with other regions, the issues of skilled migration flows – both in terms of departing migrants but also in terms of the settlement and the contribution of migrants – provide vexed policy issues in the region. In the case of Australia, such policy issues relate to export education and the contribution of students post-completion of their education, and the entrepreneurial activities of migrant communities. In the New Zealand case, one of the recent significant policy developments has been the question of attracting back or accessing a major overseas-located (Australia, UK) talent pools of New Zealand citizens.



Date: 11 September


(1 session is 3 hours)
Number of sessions: 1

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