This article canvasses recent scholarship on migrants and refugees in Australian history. It covers broadly three main fields of enquiry: White Australia, postwar immigration and refugees since the Vietnam War. We argue there is a new dynamism to the field while simultaneously making the case that...
Based on fieldwork in Sydney, Australia, this paper discusses the ways in which Japanese women marriage migrants remold their gender identity in the process of settlement. Among recent Japanese migrants to Australia, women migrants, i.e., those who migrated to Australia on account of their marria...
It found that female students were more motivated than their male counterparts in Australian schools while students from migrant families were more achievement-oriented than those born in Australia. However, the survey also revealed a gulf in motivation in different geographic areas. Students from high...
The composition of the residing migrant population also changed during this period. Whereas in the first period, European migrants were most numerous, the share of non-European migrant populations significantly grew during the second period. In Sweden, for example, 40 % of the foreign ...
But, Phoebe Li, a Chinese New Zealander sociologist, who is curating a photo exhibition in Beijing about Chinese migrants' 170-year history in her country, wants visitors to see the story through a different prism. On Friday, Recollection of A Distant Shore: A Photographic Introduction to the...
Genetic variation in a Pacific Island land snail: population history versus current drift and selection. Previous studies of Partula land snails from the Society Islands, French Polynesia, have shown that there can be striking differences in shell shape, colou... Goodacre,L S. - 《Proc Biol Sc...
1. Introduction The population of Namibia's capital city, Windhoek, has been growing at an annual rate of 5.4 per cent in recent years, the largest annual growth rate in its history. The 2001 population of Windhoek was about 224 000, whi... J Crush,B Frayne - African Books Collective ...
Changing patterns of migration to Australia and their influence on the health of migrants Whilst before World War II migration to Australia was almost entirely from the British Isles, over 60% of post-War II migrants came from other countries other than Britain. They arrived in Australia in dist...
True to their idealized, heroic image, some migrant workers endure severe trials. If they are low-skilled and, worse, non-English-speaking, their ‘unemployment rates … [are] around double the national average’ in Australia (Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia (FECCA), 2009...
Changes in the Demographic Behaviour of Migrants in Australia and the Transition between Generations The main aim of this study is to examine the extent to which the demographic and socio-economic experience of members of different ethnic groups converges ... Young,M Christabel - 《Population Studie...