Abstract
Australia is a major country of immigration and has a long history of teacher immigration and emigration. This chapter looks at the contemporary Australian teacher labour market and global teacher mobility in Australia. It reviews current trends in permanent and temporary migration to Australia. It then draws on secondary data sources – the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants in Australia (LSIA) and the 2006 National Census – to provide an overview of the characteristics of immigrant teachers. Following this, the chapter presents and interprets primary data collected from a survey of 269 immigrant teachers in schools in New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia conducted in 2008–9. From this survey, it looks at their immigration experience, their experiences of teaching and living in Australia, their level of satisfaction personally and professionally and their future intentions.
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