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South Asian Female Migrants’ Work Differentials

Multicultural Assessment

Dr Yaghoob Foroutan completed his PhD titled ‘Determinants of Women's Employment Participation: Muslim/Non-Muslim Differentials in Australia’, and received the Borrie Prize for the best PhD research in that year, awarded by the Australian Population Association. He is currently Assistant Professor at The University of Mazandaran. Address: Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Mazandaran Province, Iran. [email: y-foroutan{at}yahoo.com, y.foroutan{at}umz.ac.ir].

This article examines the employment and occupational status of South Asian female migrants in Australia, mostly Indian and Sri Lankan. It highlights their work differentials with both native-born and other female migrants in this multicultural context and confirms that they are a highly selected population who potentially bring considerable economic benefits to the receiving society. The observation that South Asian female migrants in Australia are able to contribute significant human capital in the form of language and education skills, but do so to some extent on their own terms, suggests that more careful attention needs to be paid to selecting migrants from South Asia and facilitating their entry into the labour market.

Key Words: Australia • employment • labour force • migrants • Muslim women • women and work

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