Boucher has provided the following policy advice to government, intergovernmental agencies and NGOs. Available for private and pro bono consultancies upon request. She sits on the Immigration Minister of Australia’s Expert Subcommittee (MACSM).
Recent examples (selection only)
Boucher, A. and Asante, D., Billion Dollar Benefit: Fixing the Skills and Qualifications Recognition System, Settlement Services International, July 2024.
Boucher, A. Submission to the Department of Home Affairs Discussion Paper: Review of the Points Test,” Home Affairs, June 2024.
Boucher, A. Submission to the Department of Home Affairs on the Migration Amendment (Protecting Migrant Workers) Bill, Exposure Draft, 2021, Requested submission from DHA, August 2021.
Choy, E. and Boucher. An. COVID-19 Report, commissioned by Sydney Policy Lab, April 2021 (together with Elisa Choy of AI Company, Maven Data).
Boucher A., Atkinson-Handley, M., Campi, C, Cross, E., Davies, J., Fong, T. and Wilson, J. Public Submission to the Department of Home Affairs 2021-2022 Immigration Program Planning Levels, February 2021.
Immigration Policy in the Wake of Covid-19, Presentation to Department of Home Affairs Australia Industry Day, Canberra, November 2020.
Presented to the OECD Migration Section (Paris) my new book on migrant worker rights, June 2020.
Boucher, A., Vromen, A., Gauja, A; Pill, M. and Cartwright, M. (2020), Generating Power for Social Change, Report for the Sydney Policy Lab, March 2021.
Boucher. A, Chaudhuri, U and Hall, J, “Submission to the Senate Inquiry into Unlawful Underpayment of Employees’ Remuneration, Senate Economic Reference Committee, March 2020.
Advised the economies of the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation on migration data: Invited to the APEC Meeting 2019 in Chile to advise on the gender dimensions of migration data across the region. Part of the Australian Federal Government’s delegation: http://mddb.apec.org/Documents/2019/HRDWG/FOR/19_hrdwg_for1_001.pdf
Has been consulted by the Australian Departments of Home Affairs, Treasury, NSW Department of Infrastructure and the Australian Productivity Commission over immigration levels, immigration data and population issues.
Other examples
Public submissions
Boucher, A. Chauduri, U. and Hall, J. Senate Economic Reference Committee Inquiry into Unlawful Underpayment of Employees’ Remuneration 2020; https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Economics/Underpaymentofwages
Boucher et al, Department of Immigration and Border Protection Visa Simplification Process 2017: https://www.academia.edu/34564167/Department_of_Immigration_and_Border_Protection_submission_to_the_Visa_Simplification_Process
Boucher, A. Productivity Commission for Inquiry into Australian Migrant Intake 2016 https://www.pc.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/195188/subdr128-migrant-intake.pdf
Intergovernmental agencies
Boucher, A.“ Gender and Skilled Immigration, Challenges and Recommendations,” OECD DevPol Blog, https://oecd-development-matters.org/2017/02/06/gender-and-skilled-immigration-challenges-and-recommendations
Boucher, A. “Gendering skilled immigration policies across the OECD: The Gender and Skilled Immigration (GenderImmi) Dataset,” Report for the International Organisation for Migration, “Harnessing knowledge on the migration of highly skilled women” https://www.oecd.org/dev/migration-development/Harnessing%20knowledge%20on%20the%20migration%20of%20highly%20skilled%20women%20-%20overview%20of%20key%20findings.pdf
Non-government organisations
Contributor, Academic Council on the Global Compact for Migration (ACGCM), led by Rey Koslowski, SUNY, NYC https://www.albany.edu/~rk289758/ACGCM.html
Contributor, Academics Stand Against Poverty, migration entries: http://oceania.academicsstand.org/projects/
Global Expert, GovLab 100 Initiative, New York University and the Governance Lab https://www.thegovlab.org/projects.html
Boucher, A. and Davidson, A. Expert report on Australia’s Economic Migration System for the Transatlantic Council on Migration, Migration Policy Institute, Washington D.C, May 2018 https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/evolution-australian-system-selecting-economic-immigrants
Research Lead, Sydney Policy Lab https://www.sydney.edu.au/sydney-policy-lab/about/our-people/research-leads.html see also recent policy briefing note on migration: https://www.sydney.edu.au/content/dam/corporate/documents/sydney-policy-lab/migration_and_covid-19-spl.pdf
“Is the Refugee Convention out of Date?” Ethics Centre Lecture at Sydney Town Hall, June 2017 https://ethics.org.au/experience/iq2-refugee-convention/