The global city thesis and the migration thesis concern two important dimensions of the impacts of contemporary … globalization on cities. The two theses are intrinsically linked. The central question is how we should approach migration in the … construct an integrative analytical framework linking global city and migration, and empirically apply it to Sydney. We build a …

-aid-funded Australia-Pacific Technical College (APTC). The APTC is financing and conducting vocational training in five Pacific island … and abroad—including in Australia. With thousands of graduates across the region the APTC has attained its goal of skill …

techniques to present the first comprehensive set of probabilistic population forecasts for Australia. We stress the … disadvantages of directly inputting net migration into the cohort component model in probabilistic forecasting, and propose a gross … migration flows model which distinguishes between permanent and non-permanent immigration and emigration. Our forecasts suggest …

previous Australian studies and others conducted overseas. Recent changes to Australia’s migration program include a greater …The Productivity Commission release its research report into the ‘Economic Impacts of Migration and Population Growth …’ in May 2006. According to the Commission’s findings increasing skilled migration would make a positive, but small …

Ninety percent of “boatpeople” who make it to Australia’s migration zone are assessed as legitimate refugees and given … Temporary Protection Visas (TPV) allowing them to stay in Australia for three years in the first instance. The aim of this paper …