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    Employment in a “Land of Opportunity?” Immigrants’ Experiences of Racism and Discrimination in the Australian Workplace

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    Kosny, A.
    Santos, I.
    Reid, Alison
    Date
    2016
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Kosny, A. and Santos, I. and Reid, A. 2016. Employment in a “Land of Opportunity?” Immigrants’ Experiences of Racism and Discrimination in the Australian Workplace. Journal of International Migration and Integration. [In Press]
    Source Title
    Journal of International Migration and Integration
    DOI
    10.1007/s12134-016-0482-0
    ISSN
    1488-3473
    School
    Epidemiology and Biostatistics
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10784
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    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.

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