Australia’s immigrant population contains a substantial population of humanitarian immigrants as it is currently the third largest resettlement country for refugees. How these immigrants and their children integrate into Australian society, economically and socially, has important consequences for themselves and for Australia as whole. To better understand the factors underpinning socioeconomic integration of immigrants into Australian society requires an intergenerational and longitudinal approach to analysis.
In advancing existing research in this space, this project focuses on several aspects of integration pathways and outcomes for immigrants: education, labour market outcomes, welfare support receipts, and workplace discrimination. This project will also explore these themes form an intergenerational perspective by focusing on both overseas-born and Australian-born children of immigrants.