Contents Part 1 - The immigration process 1 Nation Skilling: Immigration, Labour and the Law, Mary Crock and Ben Saul 2 Australian Immigration: Grasping the New Reality, Phillip Ruddock 3 A Comparative Look at Immigration andHuman Capital Assessment, Stephen Yale-Loehr and Christoph Hoashi-Erhardt 4 Contract or Compact: Skilled Migration and the Dictates of Politics and Ideology, Mary Crock 5 US Immigration Policy: Admission of Highly Skilled Workers, Susan Martin, B. Lindsay Lowell and Philip Martin Part 2 - Business and migrant workers 6 Migration and Demography: Global and Australian Trends and Issues for Policy Makers, Business and Employers, Graeme Hugo 7 Australian Labour Law, Migration and the Performance of Work, Ron McCallum 8 Taxation of Expatriate Employees in Australia, Richard Vann 9 Internationalisation of the Professions and Mobility of Labour, Robyn Iredale 10 Migration, Citizenship and the Right to Work: Recognition of Overseas Medical Qualifications in Australia, Margaret Allars Index