Victoria Stead

Victoria Stead is an ARC DECRA senior research fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University. She is an anthropologist whose research explores local negotiations of postcolonial legacies and processes of change related to land, labour, memory and belonging in the Pacific as well as in rural Australia.

Labour Lines and Colonial Power »

Indigenous and Pacific Islander Labour Mobility in Australia

Publication date: August 2019
Today, increases of so-called ‘low-skilled’ and temporary labour migrations of Pacific Islanders to Australia occur alongside calls for Indigenous people to ‘orbit’ from remote communities in search of employment opportunities. These trends reflect the persistent neoliberalism within contemporary Australia, as well as the effects of structural dynamics within the global agriculture and resource extractive industries. They also unfold within the context of long and…