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Staff Members
Charlotte Bedford
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Research Assistant/PhD Student |
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cbedford@waikato.ac.nz |
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K3.23 |
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Research Interests:
Charlotte is employed as a research assistant in the Migration Research Group which forms part of the Population Studies Centre at the University of Waikato.
Charlotte has been involved in a series of research projects that have examined the mental health issues for Asians in New Zealand, the settlement assistance needs of recent migrants, and diversity issues in the workplace. Charlotte Bedford is currently enrolled in a PhD that is jointly supervised by Professor Graeme Hugo at the University of Adelaide and Associate Professor Elsie Ho in the Migration Research Group, University of Waikato.
Charlotte's PhD focuses on New Zealand's Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) policy and the recently announced Australian Pacific Seasonal Worker Pilot Scheme (PSWPS). Her primary interest in the New Zealand RSE and the Australian PSWPS relates to their efforts to address seasonal labour shortages in the horticulture and viticulture industries while also providing development assistance to participating Pacific Island countries. Research is being conducted in seven locations: New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Island countries of Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. The main focus is on the origins and early implementation of these schemes, with particular reference to the potential conflicts of interest that may emerge between sending and receiving countries in terms of the desired outcomes of such programmes. The research also looks at some of the distinctive challenges faced by the various Pacific countries that are involved, and the different relationships that are being developed between employers and the island nations. The policy implications of temporary labour migration programmes more generally will be examined, and how such initiatives can be managed effectively to deliver on the desired "triple wins" to migrants as well as to employers and to the source communities in the sending countries.
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