A Nation of Immigrants or a Nation of Immigrant Cities? The Urban Context of Australian Multiculturalism, 1947–2011

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20596205
AutoresSeamus O’Hanlon (0000-0003-3142-1716, Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute), Rachel Stevens (0000-0002-4985-1987, The University of Melbourne), R Brian Stevens (0000-0001-9580-6733, The University of Melbourne)
Año2017
Volumen63
Número4
Páginas556-571
Fecha de publicación2017-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAustralian Journal of Politics & History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0004-9522 • E-ISSN: 1467-8497
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/ajph.12403
OpenAlexW2773259003
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5

The article documents the urban dimension of Australia's immigration experience that, since the 1940s, has seen the country become one of the world's most multicultural societies. The article argues that the greatest impact of immigration has been in the major cities, especially Sydney and Melbourne, which in recent decades have emerged as internationally‐significant immigrant hubs that, like similar immigrant‐receiving destinations across the globe, are increasingly demographically and culturally distinct from their host nation. Drawing on census materials, oral history interviews, local newspapers and other sources, we chart the demographic transformation of urban Australia from the 1940s to the present day and suggest that these changes have implications for how urban Australians — especially those resident in the two biggest cities — will understand and represent themselves and the nation into the future

Census · Context (archaeology) · Destinations · Economic growth · Geography · Globe · Immigration · Media studies · Multiculturalism · Newspaper · Political science · Population · Sociology · Tourism · Demography · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy