Attracting skilled migrants to regional areas: What does it take?

People and Place

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 26-36

  Hugo, Graeme ^a   Khoo, Siew Ean ^a   McDonald, Peter ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LABOR MIGRATION; LABOR POLICY; MIGRANT WORKER; SKILLED LABOR;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MELBOURNE; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 33845768961     PISSN: 10394788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. G.J. Hugo, Australia's Most Recent Immigrants 2001, Australian Census Analytic Program, Catalogue Number 2053.0, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canberra, 2004
2. G. J. Hugo, 'Temporary migration and the labour market in Australia', Australian Geographer, vol. 37, no. 2,pp. 211-231, July, 2006
3. G. J. Hugo, 2004, Australian Geographer, op. cit.
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5. G. Pinsonneault, 'Summary of communications presented at the workshop entitled "Federated States and the management of immigration and integration: is Quebec a model or an exception?'", 9th International Metropolis conference, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2004. Direction de la population et de la recherche, Ministère de l'Immigration et des Communautés culturelles, Quebec, May, 2005
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7. E.F. Kunz, Displaced Persons: Calwell's New Australians, Australian National University Press, Sydney, 1988
8. The Australian points system is applied.
9. Skill Stream - those categories of the Migration Program where the core eligibility criteria are based on the applicant's cmployability or capacity to invest and/or do business in Australia. The immediate accompanying families of Skill Stream principal applicants are also counted as part of the Skill Stream.
10. Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA), Population Flows: Immigration Aspects 2003-04 Edition, Australian Government Publishing Service (AGPS), Canberra, 2005, p. 43
11. DIMIA, Population Flows: Immigration Aspects 2002-03 Edition, AGPS, Canberra, 2004
12. S. Bracks, 'An outward-looking population policy for Australia' in S. Vizard, H.J. Martin and T. Watts (Eds) Australia's Population Challenge, Penguin Books, Melbourne, 2003, pp. 39-43
13. B. Birrell, 'Redistributing migrants: the Labor agenda', People and Place, vol. 11, no. 4, 2003, pp. 15-26
14. B. Birrell, L. Hawthorne, and S. Richardson, Evaluation of the General Skilled Migration Categories, Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Canberra, 2006. p. 178
15. DIMIA, 2004, Evaluation of the General Skilled Migration Categories op. cit.
16. For details of the survey, see S. Khoo, P. McDonald and G. Hugo, Temporary Skilled Migrants in Australia: Employment Characteristics and Migration Outcomes, DIMIA, Canberra, 2005
17. DIMIA, 2004, S. Khoo, P. McDonald and G. Hugo, Temporary Skilled Migrants in Australia: Employment Characteristics and Migration Outcomes, op. cit.;
18. S. Khoo, C. Voigt-Graf, G. Hugo and P. McDonald, 'Temporary skilled migration to Australia: the 457 visa sub-class', People and Place, vol. 11, no. 4, 2003, pp. 27-40
19. S. Khoo, C. Voigt-Graf, G. Hugo and P. McDonald, 'Temporary skilled migration to Australia: the 457 visa sub-class', People and Place, vol. 11, no. 4, 2003, pp. 27-40 ibid.
20. The term regional areas in this analysis refers to areas outside the capital cities and includes the Gold Coast and Illawarra region that are not eligible for the regional migration visas, as pointed out earlier.
21. G. Hugo, 2006, People and Place, op. cit.
22. S. Khoo, G. Hugo and P. McDonald, 'Which skilled temporary migrants become permanent residents and why', Paper presented at the Population Association of America Meeting, Los Angeles, 2006
23. Government of South Australia, Prosperity Through People: A Population Policy for South Australia, Government of South Australia, Adelaide, 2004
24. G. J. Hugo, 'The current situation and outlook for the Limestone Coast's demography', Presentation to the Prosperity Through People Population Forum, Naracoorte, South Australia, 8 June 2005