Publications

Withers, M. and Kagan, S. 2024. ‘Free Agency is a Right, Not an Option’. Devpolicy Blog. Link

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Withers, M. 2024. 'The Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme is helping some workers but harming others - it needs to be reformed'. The Interpreter. Link

 

Withers, M. 2024. 'Depletion through Transnational Social Reproduction: Guestworker Migration and Uneven Development in the South Pacific'. Work in the Global Economy. Link

 

Petrou, K. and Connell, J. 2023. Pacific Guestworkers in Australia: The New Blackbirds?. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. Link

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Petrou, K. and Withers, M. 2023. ‘“Sometimes, Men Cannot Do What Women Can”: Pacific Labour Mobility, Gender Norms and Social Reproduction’. Global Networks. Link

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Withers, M and Hill, E. 2023. ‘Migration and Development, without Care? Locating Transnational Care Practices in the Migration‐development Debate’. Population, Space and Place 29 (3). Link

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Petrou, K. and Connell, J. 2023. Our ‘Pacific Family’. Heroes, guests, workers or a precariat? Australian Geographer, 54(2), 125-35. Link

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Stead, V. and Petrou, K. 2023. Beyond the 'Triple Win': Pacific Islander farmworkers' use of social media to navigate labour mobility costs and possibilities through the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49(9), 2194-2212. Link

 

Withers, M. 2023. 'Gains, pains, and dubious claims from the Pacific Labour Mobility Survey'. The Interpreter. Link

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Withers, M. 2022. ‘Rapid Analysis of Family Separation Issues and Responses in the PALM Scheme – Final Report’. Australian Government. Link

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Withers, M. 2022. ‘Pacific Migrant Workers and the Social Costs of Family Separation’. Devpolicy Blog. Link

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Withers, M. 2022. ‘The Costs of Caring: Gender Inequalities in the Pacific Labour Scheme’. In Disruptive Asia: Women and Girls Special Edition, 14–18. Melbourne: Asia Society Australia. Link

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Stead, V. and Petrou, K. 2022. Putting the crisis to work. In Stead, V. and Hinkson, M. (Eds) Disruption: Refiguring the Food System for a World on the Edge (pp.39-53). Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. Link

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Petrou, K., Dun, O., Farbotko, C. and Kitara, T. 2021. Pacific Labour Mobility on pause: the consequences of temporary immobility during the COVID-19 pandemic. In Campbell, Y. and Connell, J. (Eds). COVID-19 and Islands: The Caribbean and the Pacific (pp.299-319). New York: Palgrave. Link

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Petrou, K. & Connell, J. 2019.  Overcoming precarity? Social media, agency and ni-Vanuatu seasonal workers in Australia. Journal of Australian Political Economy, 84, 116-146. Link

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Hill, E., Withers, M. and Jayasuriya, R. 2018. The Pacific Labour Scheme and Transnational Family Life: Policy Brief. Markets, Migration and the Work of Care. Link

Petrou, K. & Connell, J. 2018. “We don’t feel free at all”: temporary ni-Vanuatu workers in the Riverina, Australia. Rural Society, 27(1), 66-79. Link