The Second Generation in Australia: Socio-Economic Outcomes, Identity and Belonging

Collins, J

The Second Generation in Australia: Socio-Economic Outcomes, Identity and Belonging

Collins, J

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Publisher:: UTS Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre
Publication Type:: Recording, Oral
Issue Date:: 2009-08-26

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Collins, J
dc.date.accessioned	2009-11-20T00:26:07Z
dc.date.accessioned	2012-12-15T03:12:34Z
dc.date.available	2009-11-20T00:26:07Z
dc.date.available	2012-12-15T03:12:34Z
dc.date.issued	2009-08-26
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19856
dc.description	Audio recording. Running time 36 minutes 34 seconds. Original held at UTS Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre, Level 3, 645 Harris St, Sydney	en
dc.description.abstract	This paper explores some issues related to second generation immigrants in Australia. It first looks at data from the 2006 national census on some of the key dimensions of the socio-economic outcomes of the second generation. This data confirms the earlier picture of the second generation doing well in the Australian labour market and education system, although there is considerable variation in terms of ancestry or ethnic origin in this regard that is often overlooked in insufficiently disaggregated data comparisons. However, recent riots involving youth of immigrant minorities and non-immigrant youth in recent years in France, the UK and Australia underscores the importance of inter-ethnic social relations of youth and of more subjective issues such as identity and belonging to an understanding of the second generation in western societies today. This paper also presents some findings of a recent pilot survey of immigrant youth in Sydney that sheds some light on aspects of the social adaptation of the Australian second generation today.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	UTS Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	CCS Seminar Series 2009
dc.relation.replaces	http://hdl.handle.net/2100/940
dc.subject	civil	en
dc.subject	generation	en
dc.subject	Sydney	en
dc.subject	education	en
dc.subject	youth	en
dc.subject	immigrant	en
dc.subject	census	en
dc.subject	social	en
dc.subject	identity	en
dc.subject	civil society	en
dc.subject	Australia	en
dc.subject	labour	en
dc.title	The Second Generation in Australia: Socio-Economic Outcomes, Identity and Belonging	en
dc.type	Recording, oral	en
utslib.copyright.status	open_access

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This paper explores some issues related to second generation immigrants in Australia. It first looks at data from the 2006 national census on some of the key dimensions of the socio-economic outcomes of the second generation. This data confirms the earlier picture of the second generation doing well in the Australian labour market and education system, although there is considerable variation in terms of ancestry or ethnic origin in this regard that is often overlooked in insufficiently disaggregated data comparisons. However, recent riots involving youth of immigrant minorities and non-immigrant youth in recent years in France, the UK and Australia underscores the importance of inter-ethnic social relations of youth and of more subjective issues such as identity and belonging to an understanding of the second generation in western societies today. This paper also presents some findings of a recent pilot survey of immigrant youth in Sydney that sheds some light on aspects of the social adaptation of the Australian second generation today.

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