People/Place Relations

This article explores the motives of students from India who have enrolled in Australian universities as overseas students. It shows that their main objective is to obtain a permanent residence visa in Australia and that they tailor their choice of course and university with this end in mind. As a consequence most have chosen to study at the relatively low cost metropolitan campuses of Australia's regional universities. The article also explores the difficulties Indian students are encountering in obtaining a permanent residence visa.

The aim of this seminar is to discuss the difficulties, modalities, or impossibilities by which we can represent borders in their complexity (breaking up, flexibility, punctiform, virtual, etc.), asymmetrical experience, and the new modes of circumvention invented by mobile populations.

Recent events have focused public attention on people of Muslim Lebanese background (most of whom live in Sydney) and the possibility that they may suffer social disadvantage. Using data from the 2001 Census, this paper finds that Lebanese Muslim households are large and much more likely to be poor than are all households, or than Lebanese Christian households. It also finds that Lebanese Muslim men have low levels of education, relatively high levels of unemployment, and a very high tendency not to be in paid work. The second generation is doing rather better than the first, but it is still not doing very well.

Gary Bouma Globalization along with the events of September 11 2001 and the bombings in Bali have focussed attention on religion. In a context where knowing the demography of religious groups has become critical, Australia's five yearly censuses include a question about ...

emphasised the fact that new settlers were welcomed not only because they are capable of delivering 'new ideas, skills and expertise', but also for their potential to 'help create international trade and business links' in 'traditional and new overseas markets'. 7 Recently, the South Australia government expressed an eagerness to support business migrants who were able to demonstrate that they could form export opportunities with their country of origin. 8 In Australia, public policy discourses of the 1990s adopted the concept of productive diversity, defined by Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis as 'a system of production that uses diversity as a resource'. This identified the migrant cohort as one equipped with the necessary skills and tools to help Australian businesses create or boost their international trade links. 10 Productive diversity was viewed not only in domestic productivity terms-as a means of capitalising on the diversity of the Australian workforce-but also as 'a means to increase overseas trade'.

Large-scale renewable energy and associated technologies (RET), such as high voltage power lines
(HVPL), often meet opposition from the local communities living nearby. Research has suggested that one
of the main aspects that might contribute to this is the fact that RET are represented as industrial and
urban, and thus, as having a different essence from rural landscapes, where they are usually deployed
and which are represented as natural and unspoilt. However, this ‘hypothesis’ of landscape essentialisation
shaping people's responses to RET has not been explicitly examined. By drawing upon research
from Social Psychology and Human Geography on essentialisation, we will examine if and how landscape
(de-)essentialisation plays a role in people's responses to RET. Namely, by examining it as a rhetorical
construction that can be strategically used to negotiate and legitimize given relations with place and
associated responses to RET.
Focus groups were conducted in the UK and Norway with members of local communities to be affected
by the construction of HVPLs that will connect to new low carbon energy technologies. Analyses show
that participants present British and Norwegian rural landscapes in general and HVPL as having two
different essences, which justifies opposition to those infrastructures. However, analyses also show that
essentialisation of the countryside is strategically used. Namely, participants also present the countryside
in the place where they live as having more of the essence of the British or Norwegian countryside than
other areas of the UK and Norway. In turn, this allows them to legitimize claims that whereas HVPL are
‘out of place’ in the countryside in general, they are more so in the place where they live.
The implications of these results for the definition of acceptable locations for RET and for research on
peopleeplace relations and responses to place change, are discussed.

There has been little direct attention paid in Australia to the phenomenon of low fertility among women graduates. Yet it was already observed a hundred years ago, when almost half of the first genera-tions of female university graduates remained unmarried and the rest had ...

Advocates for the compact city often suppose that smaller households mean people will want smaller dwellings. This paper analyses the growth in lone-person households in Australia and shows that most people who live alone prefer detached three-bedroom houses and that many of them are able to realise this preference. Planners have too readily assumed that the demographic shift to smaller households will facilitate a shift to more compact cites. There is very little evidence to support this assumption.

Many people believe that prior to the post-WWII mass immigration Australia's population was almost entirely of British origin. They also believe that postwar immigration lead to a significant change in the ethnic composition of the non-indigenous population of Australia, necessitating the policy of multiculturalism to manage such increased diversity. However evidence from South Australia suggests that non-British immigration was surprisingly common before 1945, particularly before 1901, and that the assumed homogenous British origin population at 1901 and 1945 hid a greater proportion of non-British ancestry than has commonly been assumed. Evidence of inter-ethnic families and marriages suggests that much of this integration was peaceable in the absence of formal policies to manage interethnic relationships.

The Queensland Government recently released its 2001-based population projections for the State and its Statistical Divisions. This paper reports on the main features of the projections to 2051 at the State level and to 2026 at the statistical division scale, the various projection assumptions made, and the new multiregional projection model written specifically for this round of projections. The projections indicate that Queensland is likely to experience very substantial population growth in coming decades, increasing concentration in the south east, and significant population ageing.

Over the past few decades the inflow of overseas migrants has transformed the United States from a largely biracial society to a multi-ethnic society. This paper explores the implications of this diversity via indicators of racial/ethnic markers including intermarriage and residential segregation. On the basis of this review the article concludes that the interrelations between racial/ethnic groups in the United States are improving.

Recent events have focused public attention on people of Muslim Lebanese background (most of whom live in Sydney) and the possibility that they may suffer social disadvantage. Using data from the 2001 Census, this paper finds that Lebanese Muslim households are large and much more likely to be poor than are all households, or than Lebanese Christian households. It also finds that Lebanese Muslim men have low levels of education, relatively high levels of unemployment, and a very high tendency not to be in paid work. The second generation is doing rather better than the first, but it is still not doing very well.

Advocates for the compact city often suppose that smaller households mean people will want smaller dwellings. This paper analyses the growth in lone-person households in Australia and shows that most people who live alone prefer detached three-bedroom houses and that many of them are able to realise this preference. Planners have too readily assumed that the demographic shift to smaller households will facilitate a shift to more compact cites. There is very little evidence to support this assumption.