Migration and Urban Transitions in Australia

This book offers a critical reflection on the ways in which migration has shaped Australia's cities, especially over the past twenty years. Australian cities are among the world's most culturally diverse and are home to most of the nation's population. This edited collection brings together contemporary research carried out by scholars across a range of diverse disciplines, all of whom are concerned with the intersections between migration and urban change. The chapters are organised under three sections: demographic, settlement and environmental transitions; urban form and housing transitions; and socio-cultural transitions. Drawing on diverse theoretical and methodological approaches, the chapters engage with a range of factors and influences affecting migration and urban development. The book will be of special interest to scholars and practitioners in the disciplines of sociology, urban planning, geography, public policy and environmental sustainability.

Autorentext

Iris Levin is an architect, urban planner, lecturer and researcher at RMIT University, Australia. She is passionate about working with diverse communities and understanding the effects of migration on the built environment. Her research focuses on housing, social planning, migration and social diversity in cities.

Christian (Andi) Nygaard is an Associate Professor, social economist and Research Theme Leader for New Ways of Urban Living at the Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. His research includes the dynamics of long-term urban change, housing markets and affordability, international migrants in housing, and political-economy social housing provision and transition dynamics.

Peter W. Newton is a Research Professor in Sustainable Urbanism at Swinburne University of Technology's Centre for Urban Transitions, Melbourne, Australia. His research and publishing interests encompass new planning technologies, future systems of urban settlement, the development dynamics of cities, and urban sustainability transition processes.

Sandy Gifford is an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the Centre for Urban Transitions at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. Her research focuses on refugee settlement and wellbeing.

Inhalt

Introduction.- Chapter 1: Migration and the shaping of Australian cities: past, present, future.- Part I - Policy Transitions.- Introduction to Part I, Peter Newton.- Chapter 2: Migration policy: An overview, Peter McDonald.- Chapter 3: Economic policy, migration and the city, Christian Nygaard.- Chapter 4: Limits to Growth: Australian cities are vulnerable, Jonathan Sobels.- Part II - Housing Transitions.- Introduction to Part II, Christian Nygaard.- Chapter 5: Migrants' housing choices: the tenure and location decisions of migrants, Terry Burke, Liss Ralston.- Chapter 6: How and where do migrants to Australia aspire to be housed? From urban myth toward urban evidence via a 'housing aspirations' lens, Wendy Stone.- Chapter 7: Does the room come with Wi-Fi? Negotiating digitally mediated arrival, access and settlement among international students, Sharon Parkinson.- Chapter 8: The changing migrant house/home in Australian cities, Iris Levin and Mirjana Lozanovska.- Part III - Socio-Spatial Transitions.- Introduction to Part III, Iris Levin.- Chapter 9: The role of immigration in changing the social mosaic of Australia's cities, Peter Newton and Margaret Reynolds.- Chapter 10: Is there a problem with migrant concentrations? Evidence from Australian gateway cities, Val Colic-Peisker and Andy Peisker.- Chapter 11: Urban densification, sustainability and the implications for everyday multiculturalism, Jacqueline Nelson and Kristine Aquino.- Chapter 12: Intersecting Mobilities in Footscray: Station Precincts as Public Space, Diversifying Australian Public Life, Kelum Palipane.- Part IV - Cultural transitions.- Introduction to Part IV, Sandra Gifford.- Chapter 13: Ethnifying Melbourne: the migrant landscapes of 21st century Australian cities, Ian Woodcock and Falvia Marcello.- Chapter 14: From multicultural to intercultural Australian cities, Glenda Ballantyne.- Chapter 15: Cities of Welcome? How refugees and asylum seekers have been received by and transformed the Australian metropolis, Sandra Gifford and Kim Robinson.- Chapter 16: Eating the city: the transformation of the Australian city though migration and food, Cathy Banwell and Jane Dixon.- Conclusions.- Chapter 17: Australian cities in transition: Examining the tensions and synergies of confluent transitions driven by migration, Niki Frantzeskaki