Hugo, Graeme, U nderstanding Wher e I mmigrants Liv e Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research, Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1995. by Graeme Hugo Department of Geography, University of Adelaide Foreword The location decisions of immigrants arriving in Australia have recently been the subject of great public attention. In particular, the reasons why so many of today's settlers choose Sydney, and the consequences for its urban infrastructure, have aroused interest and controversy. In Understanding Where Immigrants Live, one of Australia's leading demographers, Professor Graeme Hugo, provides an excellent, clear overview of many features of this subject. Professor Hugo divides the work into three main parts: the geographical distribution of immigrants, the causes of their geographical concentration in Australia, and its implications. Each of these three parts of Professor Hugo's study makes fascinating reading, spelling out the geographical issues in the settlement of people who have come to Australia under its long- established immigration program. The work is not merely intrinsically interesting, however. It also carries many messages for policy-makers, including some pertaining to possible incentives to immigrants to settle in defined cities or regions. Professor Graeme Hugo is an outstanding guide through this field. His knowledge of the issues must be almost unparalleled in the group of authors who write on this topic in Australia. His style in this publication fits well into the Bureau's objective for its Understanding series, which is designed to provide authoritative, balanced coverage at a level suitable for schools and non- specialists readers. I have great pleasure in welcoming the publication to the Bureau's list. John Nieuwenhuysen, Director, Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research The Author Graeme Hugo is Professor of Geography at the University of Adelaide. He obtained his PhD. from the Australian National University (ANU) in 1975 and is widely regarded as one of the foremost demographers in Australia and the Southeast Asian region. He has held visiting positions at the University of Iowa, University of Hawaii, Hassanuddin University (Indonesia) and the ANU, and is the author of over a hundred books, chapters in books and articles in scholarly journals. Much of his early work dealt with population issues in Southeast Asia, but in recent years he has worked extensively on Australian population issues and problems. Representative of this work is his book, Australia's Changing Population (1986), and the recent series of demographic atlases commissioned by the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research. Glossary of Terms The census is a count of the total population, but it also measures a range of characteristics such as age, sex, employment status, family characteristics, housing tenure, etc. In Australia, a national census is undertaken by the Australian Bureau of Statistics every five years. Chain migration is a form of group migration 1 Making Multicultural Australia Understanding Where Immigrants Live Understanding Where Immigrants Live
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