Udah, Hyacinth (2025) African Immigrants’ Employment Experiences and Outcomes in Australia: Race, Immigration and Labour Market. Journal of Intercultural Studies. (In Press)

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Abstract

In this article, I examine the labour market experiences and employment outcomes of African immigrants to Australia. Drawing on findings from a qualitative study conducted among thirty participants in Queensland, I identify barriers to and other factors shaping meaningful employment. The findings highlight the impact of race and ethnicity, including structural and institutional practices on the labour force participation of African immigrants to Australia. Given the global significance of issues around race, ethnicity, identity, difference and living across cultural diversity, the article shows how skin colour, alongside race, combines to reveal how the participants’ experiences provide novel framework and insight into our understanding of race, immigration, and labour market. The findings indicate the need to develop targeted policies to facilitate African immigrants’ incorporation and socioeconomic mobility, highlighting the need for integration policies to be informed by immigrants’ labour market experiences and employment outcomes. The article hopes to renew public interest and broadens discussion on the role of meaningful employment and labour force participation for good settlement, inclusion, and successful integration outcomes of African immigrants and other ethnically and racially marked minority people in White settler and dominated societies.

Item ID:	89149
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	1466-9540
Keywords:	Africans, economic integration, immigration and labour market, race and racialisation, settler colonialism
Copyright Information:	© 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
Date Deposited:	21 Oct 2025 23:33
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