ABSTRACT
In May 2016 refugees were brought to the forefront of an Australian federal election campaign. In 2016, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton raised a different set of concerns about humanitarian arrivals to Australia in response to the Australian Greens’ proposal that the annual refugee intake be increased to 50000 people. G. Hugo's passing offers a prompt for all of to reflect on the role that we would like to see academic geography play in public debate. Janette Young, Lisel O’Dwyer and Richard McGrath's paper considers the question of what constitutes ‘successful’ migration, through a focus on British migration to Australia in the post-Second World War period. Linking their research findings, they argue that careful consideration ought to be given to the potentially negative outcomes of targeted migrant recruitment schemes. For some of these migrants, misunderstandings about temporary skilled migration to Australia—and a lack of clarity around skill recognition and qualification transferability—had enormous personal and familial consequences.
