How does immigration policy shape immigrants’ employment trajectories? How does this differ for immigrant men and women?

Focusing on empirical results from the United States and Australia, Dr Rennie Lee will show the enduring effects of immigration policy, specifically visa categories, on immigrants’ labor market participation and employment behavior and how these effects differ for immigrant men and women.

Her findings have important implications for immigration policymaking and shows that selecting immigrants on their skill may not produce the same employment outcomes for men and women.

Rennie Lee is an Assistant Professor in Global and Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University. Her research has focused on the integration of immigrants and their children in the United States, Canada, and Australia. Previously, she was a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Melbourne and a postdoctoral fellow at UC Irvine's Center for Research on International Migration.

This event is a collaboration between the Melbourne Social Equity Institute (MSEI) and the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness (PMCS) at the University of Melbourne.

The event will be held on Friday 16 October 2020 at 1:00 pm AEDT. To check this against your local time, please refer to this handy time zone chart. A Zoom link will be emailed to registrants closer to the event date.