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“We don’t feel free at all”: temporary ni-Vanuatu workers in the Riverina, Australia
Rural Society Pub Date : 2018-01-02 , DOI: 10.1080/10371656.2018.1443415
Kirstie Petrou 1 , John Connell 2
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ABSTRACT Seasonal worker programmes are promoted as a quadruple win, bringing benefits to participating countries, employers and workers. These benefits, however, are most often framed as economic, while the social costs of such schemes have received less attention. In 2009, Australia introduced a short-term agricultural employment scheme to provide unskilled labour for farmers, and temporary work for migrants from Pacific island states. The scheme has contributed to economic development in Australia and in the participating island nations. Migrants from Vanuatu constitute the largest group from the Melanesian states. Temporary ni-Vanuatu migrants in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia, have received substantial cash incomes, but this has come at some social cost, as they constitute an un-free precariat. Institutional structures have not responded by providing adequate pastoral care or monitoring, or changed employment, residential, and visa conditions. Parallels exist between the present employment scheme, century-old plantation systems, and similar labour migration schemes in New Zealand and Canada which emphasise the exploitative contexts of temporary agricultural employment schemes.

中文翻译:

“我们一点都不感到自由”:澳大利亚里维纳纳的临时瓦努阿图临时工

摘要季节性工人计划是一项四重胜利,旨在为参与国,雇主和工人带来好处。但是,这些好处通常被视为经济利益,而此类计划的社会成本却很少受到关注。2009年,澳大利亚推出了一项短期农业就业计划,为农民提供非熟练劳动力,并为来自太平洋岛国的移民提供临时工作。该计划为澳大利亚和参与的岛国的经济发展做出了贡献。来自瓦努阿图的移民构成了美拉尼西亚各州中最大的一群。澳大利亚新南威尔士州里维纳纳地区的临时瓦努阿图移民已经获得了可观的现金收入,但这是要付出一定的社会代价的,因为他们构成了不自由的奴役。机构结构没有提供足够的牧师照顾或监控,也没有改变工作,居住和签证条件。在新西兰和加拿大,当前的就业计划,具有百年历史的种植系统以及类似的劳务移民计划之间存在着平行性,它们强调了临时农业就业计划的剥削环境。
更新日期:2018-01-02
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