Fact Sheet 1: Migrant Workers in Frontline Care

This fact sheet from the “Markets, Migration & the Work of Care in Australia” study describes the demographic make-up of Australia’s direct care workforce in the areas of child care, aged care and personal care.

Keywords: aged care, ageing, caregivers, carers, children, cultural determinants of health, culturally and linguistically diverse, funding, gender, gender equality, gender equity, government and policy, health care, health services, immigrant, immigration, law, legal rights, metropolitan, migrant and refugee women, migration, national, occupational health and safety, older women, public health, regional, remote, rural, women with disabilities, women's rights, worker's rights, workplaces

Author(s): C Eastman, S Charlesworth, E Hill
Organisation: University of NSW
Language: English

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