TY - DATA T1 - The cooking-immigration nexus PY - 2017/05/05 AU - Birrell, Bob AU - Healy, Ernest AU - Kinnaird, Bob UR - https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/journal_contribution/The_cooking-immigration_nexus/4975898 DO - 10.4225/03/590bfa9781c88 L4 - https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/8370851 KW - Training KW - Australia KW - Apprentices KW - Cooking KW - journal article KW - Melbourne, Australia KW - 1039-4788 KW - Overseas students KW - Victoria, Australia KW - 1959.1/481996 KW - monash:64168 KW - Sydney, Australia N2 - There has been a meteoric rise in enrolments of overseas students in cooking courses in Australia from around 1019 in 2004 to 8242 in 2008. All are trained in full-time courses conducted mainly by private providers—rather than via the apprenticeship system as is the case for Australian-trained cooks. Most of the overseas students who have finished these courses have subsequently gained permanent residence as cooks. Cooking is now the second largest occupation, behind accounting among those gaining permanent entry visas under the onshore former overseas student visa subcategories. This article examines the rules governing the training and subsequent visaing of these cooks. It concludes that there are serious gaps in the rules governing their training and the assessment of their competency. In large part because of these deficiencies, only a minority obtain employment in Australia as trade level cooks. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s ER -