碩士 / 國立陽明大學 / 衛生福利研究所 / 104 / 2004, Taiwan has signed the Working Holiday visa agreement with Australia. It allows young people aged 18-30 to experience holiday and work in Australia up to 1 year. However, being both tourists and labor, it is easy for working holiday makers (WHMs) to declare the glamorous side of working holiday, but ignore the conditions and rights in their working environment. This study aims to explore their working experiences in the context of working abroad.
This study recruits 14 interviewees who hold the working holiday visa and have working experiences in Australia at least for three months to explore how the intersections of national policies, labor control, gender and race impact and shape their working experiences.
Following the trajectory of their work, this study starts from discussing the factors that affect their job seeking process, to the patterns of labor and discipline, careful calculation and strict budgeting through their working and daily life, and then showing the inequality in the labor market, the factors affect in making choice(s), and the ways of resistance. Inequalities not only come from those control and discipline in the work site, but also because of the structural constraints and institutional design. These are the factors suppress their freedom and damage their labor rights. In addition, the intersectionality of gender and race complicates the inequalities that WHMs’ face. After taking off the bright coat of tourists, labor market shows the invisible shackles, the hidden oppressions, and exploitations on those WHMs.
According to the research findings, this study suggests that both Taiwan and Australia government, and the relevant Non-government organizations play an important role to stimulate the WHM’s consciousness and collected actions.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/104YM005599009 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Sin-Ping Huang, 黃馨平 |
| Contributors | Li-Fang Liang, 梁莉芳 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 107 |
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