The agricultural industry throughout the world has great trouble recruiting and retaining workers drawn from the local population and has become reliant on temporary migrant workers to undertake work which is low paid and arduous. The viability of many of the industry’s branches, and [...]
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In Sri Lanka, as throughout most of South Asia, low-waged temporary labour migration into regional hubs of growth and accumulation is a longstanding livelihood practice, internally and internationally. Patterns of uneven development, their roots extending far back into colonial [...]
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Professor Stephen Castles Festschrift
Recently, Professor Stephen Castles retired from his academic appointment at the University of Sydney. Stephen has been, and continues to be, a key international scholar in the field of migration and mobility. A number of events will take place in [...]
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