Asiatic Immigration into Australia

[Immigration and labor: Australia and Canada compared].

"Australia and Canada share...a common colonial history and many similarities in geography, economy, demography, etc., as well as a substantial anti-non anglo-celtic immigrant tradition, in spite of their being immigration countries. Those similarities and differences are analyzed here, as far as labor migration and relationships between immigrant and local labor are concerned. The arrival of E...

The impact of immigration on school choice: Evidence from Australia

If public schools respond more to immigrants by re-allocating budgets towards their needs than private schools do, increase in immigration will increase the public school attendance of immigrants and decrease that of natives. Using the 2001 Australian Census data, this paper confirms that possibility by showing that private school attendance among native-born Australians is higher in localities...

Immigration and Status Exchange in Australia and the United States.

This paper evaluates the status exchange hypothesis for Australia and the United States, two Anglophone nations with long immigration traditions whose admission regimes place different emphases on skills. Using log-linear methods, we demonstrate that foreign-born spouses trade educational credentials via marriage with natives in both Australian and U.S. marriage markets and, moreover, that nati...

Immigration, Multiculturalism and the Changing Face of Australia

D. Bretherton and N. Balvin (eds.), Peace Psychology in Australia, Peace Psychology Book Series, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-1403-2_4, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 I was born in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne Australia – sometimes known as the green belt, other times the white belt. By the time I was old enough to develop some kind of memorable social understanding I recall hearing ...

Out of Africa, into Australia