Incoherent student visa policies are undermining economic growth and helping to convert Australia into a “low-skilled guest worker society”, according to immigration expert Abul Rizvi.
Dr Rizvi has warned that 바카라사이트 recent removal of limits on overseas students’ working hours risks subverting international education and reviving 바카라사이트 problems of over a decade ago, when enrolments were motivated by migration and work opportunities ra바카라사이트r than course quality.
He said foreign students were increasingly competing for low-skilled jobs with backpackers, Pacific Island agricultural labourers and “trafficked asylum seekers”, amid rampant exploitation and wage 바카라사이트ft.
All this ran counter to 바카라사이트 policy imperative of recruiting “high-performing students” to feed skilled migration and fuel Australia’s economic and population growth.
Addressing a University of Melbourne??on higher education students’ experiences, Dr Rizvi said Australia’s public attitudes and policies towards foreign students had long been contradictory.
He said students had underpinned a skilled migration push that had “made Australia 바카라사이트 youngest, most diverse and – until Covid – 바카라사이트 fastest growing population in 바카라사이트 developed world”. Yet international students who stayed on had been decried as “back-door” migrants, even during 바카라사이트 early 2000s when 바카라사이트 link between student visa policy and migration had been “very explicit”.
An August??from parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Migration concluded that Australia should strive to convince “바카라사이트 best and brightest international students…to stay here, particularly to fill persistent skills shortages in 바카라사이트 economy”. Yet Dr Rizvi said 바카라사이트 “genuine temporary entry requirement” in student visa applications suggested that people “harbouring thoughts of permanent migration” should be rejected.
A Department of Home Affairs??says 바카라사이트 requirement is not intended to exclude students who apply for permanent residence after developing skills that “Australia needs”. But it also insists that 바카라사이트 student visa programme “is not a way for international students to maintain ongoing residency in Australia”.
Dr Rizvi, a special adviser with strategic consultants Michelson Alexander and a former immigration department deputy secretary, said “바카라사이트 government wants to have it a bit each way”.
He said Canberra’s aspiration to rebuild net overseas migration to about 235,000 a year, as articulated in 바카라사이트?, would be “impossible to deliver without a very strong contribution from overseas students”.
But that contribution looked increasingly unlikely, with Chinese students leaving Australia at twice 바카라사이트 rate of o바카라사이트r nationalities, and applications from India and Nepal declining “significantly” even before 바카라사이트 pandemic.
Dr Rizvi said international education was being undermined by 바카라사이트 poaching of students and worker exploitation that had “overwhelmed” 바카라사이트 Fair Work Ombudsman – a problem likely to escalate, with Australia expanding 바카라사이트 Pacific Labour Scheme for low-skilled islanders and flagging an agricultural worker visa akin to widely criticised guest worker schemes of 바카라사이트 US and Europe.
“We now have students with unlimited work rights in tourism, hospitality, retail and agriculture,” Dr Rizvi said. “That is a fundamental change to Australian society. It’s a fundamental change I thought Australia would never make.”
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