M Boese
Biographic Data
| ID | 55383 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Boese |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Boese |
| SIGNATURE | BOESE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5084-2631 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Regional Resettlement of Refugees: Rethinking ‘Secondary Migration
Regional settlement of refugees is a federal, state and often also local government agenda in Australia. It is increasingly welcomed by regional employers seeking to plug labour shortages and by non-government organisations facilitating their refugee clients’ relocation from cities. This paper investigates the role of secondary movements in refugee settlement and the tensions between a dominant vision of regional settlement as the final destinati…
Migrant and Refugee Retention in Regional Australia at the Intersection of Structure and Agency
This article examines the question of migrant and refugee retention in small and medium-sized towns referred to as ‘regional towns’ in Australia as a problem at the intersection of structure and agency in migration and settlement processes. Regional settlement pathways typically occur in the context of business interests in a reliable labour supply, government efforts of migration management and, importantly, migrants’ and refugees’ socially embe…
Perceptions of climate change adaptation barriers in environmental water management
Climate change is irreversibly changing the water cycle, yet existing environmental flow assessment methods often fail to recognize the non-stationarity of hydro-climatic systems. Failure to do so will lead to the inability of environmental water management to achieve its ecological targets. Australia has undergone major reform over the past 12 years to recover water from consumptive use for environmental benefit and this paper examines how gover…
The production of precariousness and the racialisation of Pacific Islanders in an Australian horticultural region
Over the last ten years, temporary migration schemes in the horticultural sector have received increasing attention in the Global North. The often precarious conditions of such work have been recognised, however, little attention has been paid to horticultural workers with migration backgrounds who have gained permanent residency or citizenship in the host countries. Ethnographic fieldwork with Pacific farmworkers and their families with various …
Re-examining Social Mobility: Migrants' Relationally, Temporally, and Spatially Embedded Mobility Trajectories
Social mobility research mainly investigates directional change in socio-economic circumstance. This article contributes to the strand of social mobility research that examines subjective experiences of economic movement. It analyses social mobility as a set of relationally, temporally and spatially embedded social practices, subjectively experienced and interpreted. The interactive nexus between social and spatial mobility is a fruitful line of …
The Regional Migration-Development Nexus in Australia: What Migration? Whose Development
Both regional resettlement of refugees, and the attraction of different kinds of migrant labor to regional areas, have been significant trends in Australia's recent migration policies. Using the concept of the migration-development nexus, we address important questions about the nature and scope of development these different policies aim to promote, and achieve. We examine the intersection of policies and initiatives implemented to encourage and…
Now I'm just like anyone else in the community’: Work, Welfare, and Community Expectations of Refugees in Australia
This article analyses policy documents and data from interviews with employment and settlement service providers, employers, and government officials to explore the increasing shift of Australian refugee settlement policies towards neoliberal imperatives of productivity and self-sufficiency. The responses of service providers shed light on prevalent constructions of refugee subjecthood and related expectations of humanitarian entrants as potentia…
Multi-local settlement mobilities
Policy and recent scholarly understandings of settlement have both neglected continued movements of international migrants post-arrival in their destination country. The concept of settlement appears tied to outdated sedentary social science approaches that recent mobilities scholarship challenges. Rather than contrasting internal movements with settlement, we argue settlement is better understood as a social process involving spatial movement as…
Insider research on migration and mobility. International perspectives on researcher positioning
The notion of ‘Insider- research’ in migration and mobility scholarship – may evoke the image of a ‘visible’ or ‘audible’ migrant scholar subject researching other ethnically or racially marked sub
The role of local government in migrant and refugee settlement in regional and rural Australia
Government responsibility for the settlement of newly arrived refugees and migrants in Australia is shared between the federal, state and local levels. While Australia's settlement policies are predominantly top‐down and Commonwealth driven with some state involvement, local government has the potential to play a greater role in facilitating the settlement of newly arrived migrants and refugees. A growing body of literature in Australia and overs…
Inhospitable workplaces? International students and paid work in food services
Most international students in Australia take up paid work during their studies, generally as part‐time employees in low‐wage, low‐skill labour markets. Though little is known about the detail of their work experiences, scattered reports suggest that wages and working conditions are often poor and pose significant issues of social justice. This article examines the characteristics of jobs held by one group of international students, drawing on in…
The roles of employers in the regional settlement of recently arrived migrants and refugees
This article identifies and analyses different roles played by employers of recently arrived migrants and refugees in regional locations. Based on a study of regional settlement in Victoria, Australia, it highlights the scope for employer influences on regional settlement through attracting migrants and refugees to regional locations; the informal provision of settlement support; the role of cultural ambassadors and hosts; the role of determinant…
Multiculturalism and Social Inclusion in Australia
The discussion in this paper is based on the Multiculturalism and Social Inclusion symposium, convened by The Australian Sociological Association's (TASA) Migration Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (
The role of local government in migrant and refugee settlement in regional and rural Australia
Government responsibility for the settlement of newly arrived refugees and migrants in Australia is shared between the federal, state and local levels. While Australia's settlement policies are predominantly top‐down and Commonwealth driven with some state involvement, local government has the potential to play a greater role in facilitating the settlement of newly arrived migrants and refugees. A growing body of literature in Australia and overs…
The roles of employers in the regional settlement of recently arrived migrants and refugees
This article identifies and analyses different roles played by employers of recently arrived migrants and refugees in regional locations. Based on a study of regional settlement in Victoria, Australia, it highlights the scope for employer influences on regional settlement through attracting migrants and refugees to regional locations; the informal provision of settlement support; the role of cultural ambassadors and hosts; the role of determinant…
The Regional Migration-Development Nexus in Australia: What Migration? Whose Development
Both regional resettlement of refugees, and the attraction of different kinds of migrant labor to regional areas, have been significant trends in Australia's recent migration policies. Using the concept of the migration-development nexus, we address important questions about the nature and scope of development these different policies aim to promote, and achieve. We examine the intersection of policies and initiatives implemented to encourage and…
Re-examining Social Mobility: Migrants' Relationally, Temporally, and Spatially Embedded Mobility Trajectories
Social mobility research mainly investigates directional change in socio-economic circumstance. This article contributes to the strand of social mobility research that examines subjective experiences of economic movement. It analyses social mobility as a set of relationally, temporally and spatially embedded social practices, subjectively experienced and interpreted. The interactive nexus between social and spatial mobility is a fruitful line of …
Multi-local settlement mobilities
Policy and recent scholarly understandings of settlement have both neglected continued movements of international migrants post-arrival in their destination country. The concept of settlement appears tied to outdated sedentary social science approaches that recent mobilities scholarship challenges. Rather than contrasting internal movements with settlement, we argue settlement is better understood as a social process involving spatial movement as…
Inhospitable workplaces? International students and paid work in food services
Most international students in Australia take up paid work during their studies, generally as part‐time employees in low‐wage, low‐skill labour markets. Though little is known about the detail of their work experiences, scattered reports suggest that wages and working conditions are often poor and pose significant issues of social justice. This article examines the characteristics of jobs held by one group of international students, drawing on in…
Regional Resettlement of Refugees: Rethinking ‘Secondary Migration
Regional settlement of refugees is a federal, state and often also local government agenda in Australia. It is increasingly welcomed by regional employers seeking to plug labour shortages and by non-government organisations facilitating their refugee clients’ relocation from cities. This paper investigates the role of secondary movements in refugee settlement and the tensions between a dominant vision of regional settlement as the final destinati…
The production of precariousness and the racialisation of Pacific Islanders in an Australian horticultural region
Over the last ten years, temporary migration schemes in the horticultural sector have received increasing attention in the Global North. The often precarious conditions of such work have been recognised, however, little attention has been paid to horticultural workers with migration backgrounds who have gained permanent residency or citizenship in the host countries. Ethnographic fieldwork with Pacific farmworkers and their families with various …
Multiculturalism and Social Inclusion in Australia
The discussion in this paper is based on the Multiculturalism and Social Inclusion symposium, convened by The Australian Sociological Association's (TASA) Migration Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (
Now I'm just like anyone else in the community’: Work, Welfare, and Community Expectations of Refugees in Australia
This article analyses policy documents and data from interviews with employment and settlement service providers, employers, and government officials to explore the increasing shift of Australian refugee settlement policies towards neoliberal imperatives of productivity and self-sufficiency. The responses of service providers shed light on prevalent constructions of refugee subjecthood and related expectations of humanitarian entrants as potentia…
Multiculturalism and Social Inclusion in Australia
The discussion in this paper is based on the Multiculturalism and Social Inclusion symposium, convened by The Australian Sociological Association's (TASA) Migration Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (
The roles of employers in the regional settlement of recently arrived migrants and refugees
This article identifies and analyses different roles played by employers of recently arrived migrants and refugees in regional locations. Based on a study of regional settlement in Victoria, Australia, it highlights the scope for employer influences on regional settlement through attracting migrants and refugees to regional locations; the informal provision of settlement support; the role of cultural ambassadors and hosts; the role of determinant…
Inhospitable workplaces? International students and paid work in food services
Most international students in Australia take up paid work during their studies, generally as part‐time employees in low‐wage, low‐skill labour markets. Though little is known about the detail of their work experiences, scattered reports suggest that wages and working conditions are often poor and pose significant issues of social justice. This article examines the characteristics of jobs held by one group of international students, drawing on in…
The role of local government in migrant and refugee settlement in regional and rural Australia
Government responsibility for the settlement of newly arrived refugees and migrants in Australia is shared between the federal, state and local levels. While Australia's settlement policies are predominantly top‐down and Commonwealth driven with some state involvement, local government has the potential to play a greater role in facilitating the settlement of newly arrived migrants and refugees. A growing body of literature in Australia and overs…
Insider research on migration and mobility. International perspectives on researcher positioning
The notion of ‘Insider- research’ in migration and mobility scholarship – may evoke the image of a ‘visible’ or ‘audible’ migrant scholar subject researching other ethnically or racially marked sub
Now I'm just like anyone else in the community’: Work, Welfare, and Community Expectations of Refugees in Australia
This article analyses policy documents and data from interviews with employment and settlement service providers, employers, and government officials to explore the increasing shift of Australian refugee settlement policies towards neoliberal imperatives of productivity and self-sufficiency. The responses of service providers shed light on prevalent constructions of refugee subjecthood and related expectations of humanitarian entrants as potentia…
Multi-local settlement mobilities
Policy and recent scholarly understandings of settlement have both neglected continued movements of international migrants post-arrival in their destination country. The concept of settlement appears tied to outdated sedentary social science approaches that recent mobilities scholarship challenges. Rather than contrasting internal movements with settlement, we argue settlement is better understood as a social process involving spatial movement as…
The Regional Migration-Development Nexus in Australia: What Migration? Whose Development
Both regional resettlement of refugees, and the attraction of different kinds of migrant labor to regional areas, have been significant trends in Australia's recent migration policies. Using the concept of the migration-development nexus, we address important questions about the nature and scope of development these different policies aim to promote, and achieve. We examine the intersection of policies and initiatives implemented to encourage and…
Re-examining Social Mobility: Migrants' Relationally, Temporally, and Spatially Embedded Mobility Trajectories
Social mobility research mainly investigates directional change in socio-economic circumstance. This article contributes to the strand of social mobility research that examines subjective experiences of economic movement. It analyses social mobility as a set of relationally, temporally and spatially embedded social practices, subjectively experienced and interpreted. The interactive nexus between social and spatial mobility is a fruitful line of …
Migrant and Refugee Retention in Regional Australia at the Intersection of Structure and Agency
This article examines the question of migrant and refugee retention in small and medium-sized towns referred to as ‘regional towns’ in Australia as a problem at the intersection of structure and agency in migration and settlement processes. Regional settlement pathways typically occur in the context of business interests in a reliable labour supply, government efforts of migration management and, importantly, migrants’ and refugees’ socially embe…
Perceptions of climate change adaptation barriers in environmental water management
Climate change is irreversibly changing the water cycle, yet existing environmental flow assessment methods often fail to recognize the non-stationarity of hydro-climatic systems. Failure to do so will lead to the inability of environmental water management to achieve its ecological targets. Australia has undergone major reform over the past 12 years to recover water from consumptive use for environmental benefit and this paper examines how gover…
The production of precariousness and the racialisation of Pacific Islanders in an Australian horticultural region
Over the last ten years, temporary migration schemes in the horticultural sector have received increasing attention in the Global North. The often precarious conditions of such work have been recognised, however, little attention has been paid to horticultural workers with migration backgrounds who have gained permanent residency or citizenship in the host countries. Ethnographic fieldwork with Pacific farmworkers and their families with various …
Regional Resettlement of Refugees: Rethinking ‘Secondary Migration
Regional settlement of refugees is a federal, state and often also local government agenda in Australia. It is increasingly welcomed by regional employers seeking to plug labour shortages and by non-government organisations facilitating their refugee clients’ relocation from cities. This paper investigates the role of secondary movements in refugee settlement and the tensions between a dominant vision of regional settlement as the final destinati…
Sociology (12 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Refugee (7 works)