Journal of International Migration and Integration
Volume 18, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 483-497
Employment in a “Land of Opportunity?” Immigrants’ Experiences of Racism and Discrimination in the Australian Workplace (Article)
Kosny A.* ,
Santos I. ,
Reid A.
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Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, Institute for Work & Health, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Oral Health Centre, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
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School of Public Health, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia
Abstract
Immigrants are an important part of the Australian labor force and constitute a major source of net labor force growth. Immigrants arriving in Australia, however, face a number of barriers finding employment that is commensurate with their training and education (Reid, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 36:120-125, 2012) and can end up in poor-quality jobs. Through a series of interviews and focus groups with newcomers, our study examined immigrants’ experience of finding employment and their working conditions in Australia. In this manuscript, we specifically explore how discrimination shaped workers’ experiences and the strategies workers used to overcome and deal with the barriers they encountered. We end with a discussion of how racism and its consequences can impact quality of work and worker health and safety. © 2016, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84961223705&doi=10.1007%2fs12134-016-0482-0&partnerID=40&md5=e3baa9e01278d054caf7ed5e706cd5c3
DOI: 10.1007/s12134-016-0482-0
ISSN: 14883473
Cited by: 4
Original Language: English