The impact of immigration on Australia
Subtitle: a demographic approach
By: Ian H. Burnley.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: South Melbourne, Vic; Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
Subjects: Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation -- Australia -- History.; Multiculturalism -- Australia -- History.; Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
Description: Examines the significant influence that waves of immigrant settlers have had on Australia's places and spaces. Although the focus is on immigration to the metropolitan and industrial cities in the second half of the twentieth century, the social geographies and histories in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are also explored.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Old and new perspectives on immigrant settlement geographies; title: Dimensions of immigration to Australia since 1788; title: Anglo-Celtic cultural islands and diversity in rural and suburban Australia before the First World War; title: Cultural islands, diversity, and impacts in rural Australia : continental European and Asian-origin peoples; title: Immigrants in regional manufacturing and mining towns, 1947-1999; title: European immigrants in Sydney and Melbourne, 1947-1971 and beyond; title: Settlement of former refugees and associated immigrants in Sydney and Melbourne, 1971-1999; title: Immigration and a global city : advantage and disadvantage among the newer migrant communities in Sydney; title: Immigration and the secondary metropolitan cities; title: Review and prospect.