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Article: COVID-19 and aggravated housing precarity for international students: an Australian case study
Title | COVID-19 and aggravated housing precarity for international students: an Australian case study |
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Keywords | Australia COVID-19 housing precarity Student housing subletting travel restrictions |
Issue Date | 8-May-2024 |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis Group |
Citation | International Journal of Housing Policy, 2024, v. 24, n. 2, p. 344-371 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Housing experience of international students has attracted increasing academic attention in recent years. Australia’s large international student population is largely reliant on lightly-regulated private rental housing, a market sector subject to extreme turbulence during COVID-19. However, while aspects of Australian student housing stress during the pandemic have been already investigated, the specific issues affecting a substantial component of the broader cohort have yet to be examined. Around 130,000 Australian international students were stranded overseas for two years (2020-22) by international border closures. Their experiences cast new light on vulnerable renter precarity in lightly-regulated markets. Via an online survey and in-depth interviews, this paper examines the challenges posed for stranded international students in terms of their Australian tenancies, and how these were handled. Three main findings emerge: 1) uncertainty deriving from travel restrictions reduced student bargaining power in the rental market; 2) inability to terminate leases, unfavourable rent negotiation outcomes and welfare exclusion caused serious financial stress; and 3) widespread subletting exposed students to eviction and exploitation. These findings foreground important downsides of Australia’s long-existing neoliberal university regime and inadequate student housing provision that endanger the fundamental purposes of higher education, and risk tarnishing Australia’s reputation as an international student destination. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/346253 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.4 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.849 |
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dc.contributor.author | Zhu, Jin | - |
dc.contributor.author | Pawson, Hal | - |
dc.contributor.author | He, Shenjing | - |
dc.contributor.author | Li, Bingqin | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-09-12T09:10:15Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2024-09-12T09:10:15Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2024-05-08 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | International Journal of Housing Policy, 2024, v. 24, n. 2, p. 344-371 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1949-1247 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/346253 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Housing experience of international students has attracted increasing academic attention in recent years. Australia’s large international student population is largely reliant on lightly-regulated private rental housing, a market sector subject to extreme turbulence during COVID-19. However, while aspects of Australian student housing stress during the pandemic have been already investigated, the specific issues affecting a substantial component of the broader cohort have yet to be examined. Around 130,000 Australian international students were stranded overseas for two years (2020-22) by international border closures. Their experiences cast new light on vulnerable renter precarity in lightly-regulated markets. Via an online survey and in-depth interviews, this paper examines the challenges posed for stranded international students in terms of their Australian tenancies, and how these were handled. Three main findings emerge: 1) uncertainty deriving from travel restrictions reduced student bargaining power in the rental market; 2) inability to terminate leases, unfavourable rent negotiation outcomes and welfare exclusion caused serious financial stress; and 3) widespread subletting exposed students to eviction and exploitation. These findings foreground important downsides of Australia’s long-existing neoliberal university regime and inadequate student housing provision that endanger the fundamental purposes of higher education, and risk tarnishing Australia’s reputation as an international student destination. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Taylor and Francis Group | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | International Journal of Housing Policy | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject | Australia | - |
dc.subject | COVID-19 | - |
dc.subject | housing precarity | - |
dc.subject | Student housing | - |
dc.subject | subletting | - |
dc.subject | travel restrictions | - |
dc.title | COVID-19 and aggravated housing precarity for international students: an Australian case study | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/19491247.2024.2339441 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85192575275 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 24 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 344 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 371 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1949-1255 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1949-1255 | - |