At the start of July 2021, over 350 stakeholders in New Zealand’s Recognised Seasonal Employer...
Category - Pacific migration and labour mobility
ASEAN ag visa makes no sense
The Federal Agriculture Minister, David Littleproud, announced yesterday morning on the ABC that...
Pacific seasonal workers to New Zealand: slow progress
In early May, the New Zealand government announced a second border exception (which I refer to as...
Pacific Labour Scheme: expanding while borders are closed
It’s been a challenging year for Pacific labour mobility. With the onset of COVID-19, borders in...
Government’s role in the RSE: response to Richard Curtain
In a recent series of Devpolicy Blogs reviewing the RSE Impact Study, Richard Curtain takes issue...
Fruit pickers want to choose their own path
Anthropologists have long written about the role of serendipity in their work. Days can go by in...
Opting out of the SWP: the absconders’ story
So far in this series I’ve spoken mostly about working holiday makers or people with a right to...
Why people pick
In the previous two blogs in this series (here and here), I talked about how migration has become...
One day in the life of a fruit picker
When I went fruit picking in January, I had already been writing about horticultural labour for...
Who we are and what we eat: policy, ethnography and blueberries
This COVID summer, seeking to better understand migration and food in Australia, I took leave from...