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Title: A 'Multicultural model' of the spatial assimilation of ethnic minority groups in Australia's major immigrant-receiving cities
Related: Urban geography, Vol. 27, Issue 5, p.441-463
Publisher: V .H. Winston & Son
Date: 2006
Author/Creator: Forrest, James
Author/Creator: Poulsen, Michael
Author/Creator: Johnston, Ron
Description: A multicultural model of the intergenerational absorption of ethnic immigrant groups is proposed. A recently developed methodology to facilitate comparative assessment of the absolute spatial context of ethnic group concentrations is used to analyze segregation dynamics in Australia's three main contemporary immigrant-receiving cities. Ethnic enclaves emerge as transitory phenomena in the Australian urban context. In the absence of significant social discrimination, ethnic group segregation is seen to relate to economic factors. A segmented assimilation approach brings out relevant features of Australia's immigration history as: recency of arrival; the significance of the post-1945 long economic boom compared with the subsequent period of economic restructuring since the early 1970s; the ending of the White Australia policy in the early 1970s; and a distinction between skilled and refugee entry. Intergenerational evidence supports a view of Australian multiculturalism as "assimilation in slow motion."
Description: 23 page(s)
Subject Keyword: ethnic segregation
Subject Keyword: desegregation
Subject Keyword: enclaves
Subject Keyword: multiculturalism
Subject Keyword: Australia
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Human Geography

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/11382
Identifier: ISSN:0272-3638
Identifier: mq-rm-2006000759
Language: eng
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