Global labour, local frameworks: Timor‐Leste and Australiaʼs Seasonal Worker Programme
Abstract In 2018–19 some 12,000 people from the Pacific and Timor‐Leste came to Australia with its Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP), part of a worldwide trend towards labour mobility. The ways in which Timorese workers use money earned individually within the SWP are shaped by broadly collectivist fr...
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| description | Abstract In 2018–19 some 12,000 people from the Pacific and Timor‐Leste came to Australia with its Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP), part of a worldwide trend towards labour mobility. The ways in which Timorese workers use money earned individually within the SWP are shaped by broadly collectivist frameworks for understanding wealth and work embedded in their home communities. Drawing on fieldwork in Timor‐Leste and the literature on livelihood seeking and governance there, this article shows how for most Timorese in the SWP the impact of international work is mediated by local custom. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-71e046b696454c519035be41be96cd992022-12-22T02:34:19ZengWileyAsia & the Pacific Policy Studies2050-26802022-05-019216517710.1002/app5.354Global labour, local frameworks: Timor‐Leste and Australiaʼs Seasonal Worker ProgrammeMichael Rose0The University of Adelaide Adelaide AustraliaAbstract In 2018–19 some 12,000 people from the Pacific and Timor‐Leste came to Australia with its Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP), part of a worldwide trend towards labour mobility. The ways in which Timorese workers use money earned individually within the SWP are shaped by broadly collectivist frameworks for understanding wealth and work embedded in their home communities. Drawing on fieldwork in Timor‐Leste and the literature on livelihood seeking and governance there, this article shows how for most Timorese in the SWP the impact of international work is mediated by local custom.https://doi.org/10.1002/app5.354Australian Seasonal Worker Programmedevelopmentlabour mobilitymigrationTimor‐Leste |
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| title | Global labour, local frameworks: Timor‐Leste and Australiaʼs Seasonal Worker Programme |
| title_full | Global labour, local frameworks: Timor‐Leste and Australiaʼs Seasonal Worker Programme |
| title_fullStr | Global labour, local frameworks: Timor‐Leste and Australiaʼs Seasonal Worker Programme |
| title_full_unstemmed | Global labour, local frameworks: Timor‐Leste and Australiaʼs Seasonal Worker Programme |
| title_short | Global labour, local frameworks: Timor‐Leste and Australiaʼs Seasonal Worker Programme |
| title_sort | global labour local frameworks timor leste and australia s seasonal worker programme |
| topic | Australian Seasonal Worker Programme development labour mobility migration Timor‐Leste |
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