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- Title
- International migration
- Author(s)
- Betts, Katharine
- Abstract
- Many commentators on current international migration like to argue that we have seen it all before. Are the French anxious about Muslim immigrants from the Mahgreb? They should relax. Their grandfathers worried about the Polish immigrants but it all worked out smoothly in the end, and this will too. Do Australians fret about urban concentrations of Indo-Chinese migrants? Our parents' generation had the same worries about the Southern Europeans but their fears were misplaced. The message for today from these new scholars is that unsophisticated people are often troubled by the apparently new; let them learn a little history. Learning history always helps, but Graeme Hugo, a far from unsophisticated observer, implies that in the late 20th century it is not enough. This is because the movement we are looking at is, in many respects, new. Today more people are moving from one country to another more often than before. [Introduction]
- Publication type
- Book chapter
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Source
- Population shift : mobility and change in Australia / Peter W. Newton and Martin Bell (eds.), p. 19-23
- Publication year
- 1996
- Keyword(s)
- Australia; Ethnic diversity; Immigration; International migration; Migration history
- Publisher
- Australian Government Publishing Service Press
- ISBN
- 0644361182
- Copyright
- Copyright © P. W. Newton and M. Bell 1996.
- Peer reviewed
