Lecture: Integration of Humanitarian Migrants into the Host Country Labour Market

In co-operation with Macquarie University as part of the Centre for Workforce Futures’ Illuminate Public Lecture Series, Settlement Services International will be hosting a lecture by Dr. Matloob Piracha of the University of Kent, UK on the Integration of Humanitarian Migrants into the Host Country Labour Market.

In this lecture, Dr. Piracha will be sharing the results from his research where he identifies different factors that influence the labour market integration of refugees in Australia using recently collected survey data.

Dr. Piracha will be discussing a number of employment outcomes including access to stable employment, income level, quality of employment and education-occupation mismatch in recently arrived refugees, as well as looking at the role that social capital and previous migration experience has on these outcomes.

Dr. Matloob Piracha

Dr Matloob Piracha is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the University of Kent, UK. He has extensive experience of working on migration and related issues and has published a number of papers on the impact of migration on sending and receiving countries as well as on migrants and their left-behind families. Matloob has acted as a consultant or a collaborator for a number of international organisations including the OECD, UK Department for International Development (DfID) and the World Bank. He is also Director of the Global Labour Organisation (GLO), a virtual network connecting eminent scholars and policymakers from around the world.

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