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View article: Controlling Australian Immigration: Holocaust Survivors in the Post‐War Years
Controlling Australian Immigration: Holocaust Survivors in the Post‐War Years Open
Recent studies of immigration have questioned assumptions about the effectiveness of government controls. In her work on illegal Jewish immigration to the United States, Libby Garland argues that official immigration quotas may not reflect…
View article: It Is All About the Numbers of Immigrants: Population and Politics in Australia and New Zealand
It Is All About the Numbers of Immigrants: Population and Politics in Australia and New Zealand Open
Australia and New Zealand have a long history of accepting international migrants. Both countries rank among the highest in the world in relation to the proportion of the population that is born in another country. Given that the birth rat…
View article: Through the Devil's Mirror: The Villain and the Sinthomosexual as Manifestations of the Death Drive
Through the Devil's Mirror: The Villain and the Sinthomosexual as Manifestations of the Death Drive Open
Lee Edelman’s No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (2004) offers a model for reading queer sexuality and societal place very much in line with that which begins to emerge in early Gothic literature, including Matthew Lewis’s The Mon…
View article: Are diverse societies less cohesive? Testing contact and mediated contact theories
Are diverse societies less cohesive? Testing contact and mediated contact theories Open
Previous research has demonstrated that there is a negative relationship between ethnic diversity in a local community and social cohesion. Often the way social cohesion is assessed, though, varies across studies and only some aspects of t…
View article: Identity in an ethnically diverse community
Identity in an ethnically diverse community Open
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View article: No work, no income, no Medicare: the bridging visa E regime
No work, no income, no Medicare: the bridging visa E regime Open
A number of asylum seekers in Australia who are living in the community and do not meet certain criteria specified by the Government are given a Bridging Visa E (BE) while their cases are reviewed. The BVE denies them the right to work or …
View article: Attitudinal divergence in a Melbourne region of high immigrant concentration: a case study
Attitudinal divergence in a Melbourne region of high immigrant concentration: a case study Open
Dingley Village and Springvale are two suburbs in South-Eastern Melbourne that are geographically close but socially distinct. The first contains high proportions of relatively affluent Australia-born residents, and the second high proport…
View article: Attitudes towards immigration and national identity: a re-awakening of xenophobia?
Attitudes towards immigration and national identity: a re-awakening of xenophobia? Open
This article reports on surveys of attitudes to migration and identity issues in the Springvale region of Melbourne in 1993-94 and 1998. There has not been an increase in xenophobic attitudes between the two surveys. Most respondents belie…
View article: Racism and the recession
Racism and the recession Open
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View article: Migration: the economic debate
Migration: the economic debate Open
Over the last seventy years, immigration has added seven million people to Australia’s population and will, if current policy settings continue, add a further thirteen million by 2060. The current focus of the migration program on skilled …
View article: Australian Attitudes to Immigration and Multiculturalism
Australian Attitudes to Immigration and Multiculturalism Open
This paper begins with a discussion of Australia's immigration context and the extent of ethnic diversity in the country. Following a brief discussion of public opinion surveying in Australia it considers five main issues, based in large p…