ISANA ACTiveNSW Branch Industry Check In: Information to address international student exploitation – Findings from the Information for Impact Survey

Information to address international student exploitation – Findings from the Information for Impact Survey

Assoc Professors Bassina Farbenblum and Laurie Berg will present key findings from the Information for Impact project, funded by StudyNSW. The Information for Impact project is a groundbreaking collaboration among key stakeholders across the international education sector in NSW to collectively address exploitation of international students at work and in relation to accommodation. This presentation will address international students’ experiences of problems at work, their knowledge of workplace entitlements and attitudes towards taking action to seek assistance, as reflected in the recently published International Students and Wage Theft in Australia report. This session will also discuss implications for education providers, education agents, student organisations and government regulators.

Bassina Farbenblum is Co-Director of the Migrant Worker Justice Initiative, and an Associate Professor at UNSW Law. She is also the founding director of the UNSW Human Rights Clinic and the Australian Human Rights Centre’s Migrant and Refugee Rights Project. She has spent almost two decades as immigrant rights lawyer, researcher and clinical legal educator in New York and Sydney.

Laurie Berg is Co-Director of the Migrant Worker Justice Initiative, and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney. She is the author of the first book on migrant workers’ rights in Australia: Migrant Rights at Work: Law’s Precariousness at the Intersection of Immigration and Labour published by Routledge in 2016.

Together, Bassina and Laurie led the Information for Impact project.