Global Teachers’ Pathways to Australia

Abstract

This chapter draws on qualitative field work – the interviews and focus groups of immigrant teachers that we conducted in the three Australian states – New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia – to flesh out our understanding of the immigration history of global teachers in Australia. It explores: their teaching qualifications and global teaching experience; their immigration pathways to Australia; the transnational social and Diasporic networks that shaped their decision to teach in Australia; the immigrant teacher recruitment strategies of State Education Departments; the immigration visas that global teachers use to get entry to Australia; the problems of negotiating bureaucratic immigration hurdles. This chapter draws on the experiences and narratives of the immigrant teachers themselves as they give voice to their own global mobility experiences, their hopes and aspirations, and their frustrations personally and professionally.