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British backpackers make up the largest nationality of illegal workers in Australia. Why?
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There’s a „huge culture“ of working illegally, says Conor McCormick, 33, who spent two years doing just that after his working holiday visa expired in 1997.
Enjoying himself too much to go back to his native Northern Ireland, he falsely declared himself a resident on his new tax form and continued doing agency work and a bar job. When his employers asked for his new visa, he just made excuses.
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„They don’t offer great pay, but enough to live off and save a little. While cash in hand Canada Goose Parka jobs are not openly promoted here, canada goose coats on sale it’s well known that they’re available.“
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For a start, we could take this on board and see immigration in a different light, says Rhian Beynon of the Joint Council Canada Goose online for the Welfare of Immigrants.
„This shows that international immigration is a very natural, normal and human process. People are moving around the globe for settlement, travel or work. Hopefully this makes people think differently about what typical immigrants are.“
We should also question whether it’s easier for white immigrants, either in the UK or in Australia, to overstay, says Keith Best of the Immigration Advisory Service.
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„There’s a legitimacy that comes with a white face and people tend not to question these people, but not if you’re from Africa or the Indian subcontinent, where people wrongly regard second or third generations as immigrants.“
The Australian Immigration Department says it caught 20,000 overstayers in the last financial year and has introduced a number of measures, including an immigration „Dob in“ phone line, to deal with it. British illegal workers are viewed as „low risk“ because they make up a small fraction of their total visas.
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