Despite the pro-migration rhetoric that emerged in the aftermath of the pandemic, migrant workers are generally sceptical about seeing any immediate and positive changes because Australia does not have a culture of treating migrant workers fairly nor a just system of migration. Their skills are hardly recognised, work is devalued, and settlement is challenged. The Migrant Workers Centre conducted a survey and followup interviews in late 2022 to understand the relationship between Australia’s migration system and migrant workers’ experiences in the job market. This report summarises our findings from analysing 1,002 survey responses and 65 individual interviews