Reflections on The Australian Higher Education and Vietnamese Skilled Migration Nexus

Abstract

The growth of Australian international education has been sustained and enhanced by Australian subsequent skilled migration, making a nexus between the two. Within this context, the number of Vietnamese students in Australia has been increasing. This situation raises several issues of research concerns that may examine the lures of the link between Australian international education and migration policies and Vietnamese students’ aspirations to apply for permanent residency. It also poses questions about the complex, contradictory, and hesitant experiences that the students may encounter. The purpose of this reflective essay is to draw attention to some of the aspects that current research has covered and some of the others that is still left unattended.