Spatial Patterns of Ethnicity

Activity Construct a timeline of migrant streams into Sydney (refer to p226)

Push and Pull Factors for Migration to Australia Higher living standards Social dislocation and homelessness in postwar Europe Political unrest Rural poverty in southern Europe

1980’s – 1990’s Change in immigration policy Refugee migrants (Lebanon, Vietnam, Indochina etc) Professional and business migrants (East-South East Asian countries

The Ethnic Dimension of Sydney’s Urban Residential Structure Two elements Process: incorporates the degree of distinctiveness or difference from the host society, the amount of assimilation or integration required to incorporate each migrant group into the receiving society Spatial outcomes: are the end product of all the elements involved in ethnic segregation: SES, prejudice, time of arrival etc. Fig. 2.4.72 reveals the most recently arrived and culturally different groups are the most spatially segregated or concentrated.

Activities Answer questions 1-4 p233 on ‘The Geography of Religion’