Operationalizing Intersectionality: an Approach to Uncovering the Complexity of the Migrant Job Search in Australia
本文运用交叉性理论，分析非英语背景的技术移民在澳大利亚求职的复杂经历，揭示性别、家庭角色和移民身份如何共同影响求职过程，对研究移民就业和性别不平等的学者有参考价值。
This paper explores the complexities surrounding the lived experiences of skilled migrant women and men from non-English speaking backgrounds (NESBs) who arrive in Australia and attempt to seek work. The paper will analyze the migrants' experiences using intersectionality theory as a framework. Drawing on Anthias's social relations framework, this research will contribute to the field by demonstrating how intersectionality theory can be operationalized to understand the complex lived experiences of disadvantaged groups. The research will reveal how being a new migrant in Australia, unfamiliar with local job search processes, complicates jobseeking. The paper will show how gender and family roles impact this process, especially when young families are involved. Both genders suffer downward occupational mobility, with men seeking any type of work to get by, and women gravitating towards insecure forms of employment, or exiting the labour force, in order to manage the family unit.