Interethnic Partnering: Patterns by Birthplace, Ancestry and Indigenous Status

Walker, Lyndon; Heard, Genevieve

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“…A general trend being observed is that males from most European countries, such as Italy, Netherlands, Croatia, Germany, etc., exhibited a higher language shift rate than females, while females from many Asian countries, such as Philippines, Sri Lanka, Korea, etc., had a higher language shift rate than males. This result is consistent with the findings based on the census statistics of 1986 to 1996 ( Holmes, 1993 ; Clyne and Kipp, 1997 ; Walker and Heard, 2015 ). As the previous studies revealed that in more established community groups in Australia, males tended to shift more than females to use English due to a higher exogamy rate among their male members.…”

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Home language use and shift in Australia: Trends in the new millennium

Zhang

Tsung²,

Qi³

2023

Front. Psychol.

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The 25 million Australians today are identified with more than 300 ancestries. People’s home language use and shift patterns had demonstrated great variations as more immigrants from Asia-Pacific regions entered Australia. The ethnolinguistic composition of Australia’s population had undergone substantial changes in the last few decades. Based on the statistics from Australian censuses, the present paper aims to analyze the changes of people’s home language use and the shift patterns in the new Millennium. Five sets of census data released by Australian Bureau of Statistics were adopted as the secondary data source and descriptive analysis was conducted to disclose the dynamic picture of different home languages in Australia after 2000. The results suggest that the number of home language speakers in Australia has soared up quickly in the last two decades and great variations have been found between the traditional European migrant groups and the newly Asian arrivers. Mandarin has overtaken Italian and Greek to become the most populous home language other than English used in Australia since 2011 and great regional differences were also found to exist among different states and territories. Moreover, the ranking order of different home language speakers had changed considerably as compared with that in the last century. The language shift rates of different language communities and their cross-tabulations with generations, gender, age, and duration of residence in the latest available censuses after 2000 also revealed diverse developmental directions. The findings give us a glimpse of the current status of different home languages in Australia and help us to identify the potential factors impacting the shifting trends of different language communities. A better understanding of the language needs of different migrant communities may further help policymakers set more effective plans to accommodate an increasingly diverse Australian society.

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Home language use and shift in Australia: Trends in the new millennium

Zhang

Tsung²,

Qi³

2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…; Parker and Song 2001; Lichter 2001, 2007;Model and Fisher 2002;Edmonston, Lee, and Passel 2002;Jacobs and Labov 2002;Dunleavy 2004;Everts et al 2005;Johnson and Jacobson 2005;Rosenfeld 2005Rosenfeld , 2007Rosenfeld , 2008Rosenfeld , 2010 goldstein and Harknett 2006; Schoen and Cheng 2006; Perlmann and Waters 2007; J. Lee and Bean 2010; gullickson and Fu 2010; McCubbin and Krystal 2010; Herman and Campbell 2012; Murphy-Shigematsu 2012; King-O'Riain et al 2014; Bohra-Mishra and Massey 2015), Canada (e.g., Tzeng 2000; Kalbach 2002; Rodríguez-garcía 2007; S. Lee and Boyd 2008; Hou and Myles 2013; Mahtani 2014), and Australia (e.g.,Jones and Luijkx 1996;Meng and gregory 2005;Walker and Heard 2014); and also from some Northern European countries with a greater and lengthier experience of immigration, like the united Kingdom (e.g.,Berrington 1994;Caballero, Edwards, and Smith 2008;Platt 2009;Muttarak 2010;Song 2010;Panico and Nazroo 2011;Arweck and Nesbitt 2010;Edwards, Caballero, and Puthussery 2010;Edwards et al 2012;Aspinall and Song 2012), France (e.g.…”

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Intermarriage and Integration Revisited

García

2015

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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A nthropologist Edmund Leach, in his discussion of caste and class systems, stated, "In a very fundamental way, we all of us distinguish those who are of our kind from those who are not of our kind by asking ourselves the question: 'Do we intermarry with them?'" (1967, 19). Indeed, social scientists have been drawn to the investigation of intermarriage for over a century: from the classic anthropological studies of the nineteenth century (McLennan 1865; L. Morgan 1870; Tylor 1889); to the development of classical assimilation theory, first by sociologists of the Chicago School led by Robert E. Park (Park and Burgess 1921; Park 1928) and later entrenched by Milton gordon (1964); to studies from more current times, in which the subject has been analyzed from many different disciplines. This fascination with intermarriage can be attributed to the realization that the crossing of racial, ethno-cultural, religious, or class boundaries

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“…Ethnic minority persons in mixed-ethnicity relationships are less likely to live in neighbourhoods with high concentrations of their own ethnic group, and accordingly are more dispersed than those in co-ethnic relationships (Ellis et al, 2006;Holloway et al, 2005). In Australia, Walker and Heard (2014) and Biddle (2013) found that Indigenous persons with non-Indigenous partners tend to live in urban areas, which typically have lower proportions of Indigenous residents. Our research in Sydney (Tindale et al, 2014) demonstrated that ethnic minority persons with ethnic majority partners were considerably less likely (than their co-ethnically partnered peers) to live in neighbourhoods with a high presence of same-ethnicity residents.…”

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The diverse geographies of mixed-ethnicity couples

Tindale

Klocker

2017

Environ Plan A

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The geographical distribution of mixed-ethnicity (or mixed-race) couples is an important indicator of the spatial dimensions of cultural ‘mixing’ in a given society. A small number of studies have mapped the residential geographies of mixed-ethnicity couples, revealing distinctive residential patterns that differ from those of each partner’s respective ethnic group. Most such analyses have adopted broad pan-ethnic or racial categories (e.g. ‘black-white’, ‘white-Asian’). The Australian Census – which eschews broad racial categories – provides an opportunity to explore the unique residential geographies of different ‘types’ of mixed-ethnicity couples . Using customised 2011 Census data, this paper maps the residential geographies of diverse mixed-ethnicity couples in Australia’s most populous cities: Sydney and Melbourne. We focus on couples where one partner nominated ‘Anglo-European’ ancestry and the other nominated one of five ‘minority’ ancestries. Our findings highlight the value in disaggregating the coarse pan-ethnic or racial groupings adopted in some existing studies, and prescribed in some national censuses. The residential geographies of mixed-ethnicity couples challenge established perspectives on urban ethnic landscapes. As these couples grow in number, particularly in immigrant societies, they have the potential to fundamentally reshape established ethnic residential geographies away from patterns of residential segregation. Fine-grained analyses such as ours provide scope to explore the myriad directions in which these shifts will unfurl. They also provide a starting point for better understanding the preferences and pressures that shape the residential geographies of diverse mixed-ethnicity couples.

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Interethnic Partnering: Patterns by Birthplace, Ancestry and Indigenous Status

Cited by 7 publications

References 43 publications

Home language use and shift in Australia: Trends in the new millennium

Home language use and shift in Australia: Trends in the new millennium

Intermarriage and Integration Revisited

The diverse geographies of mixed-ethnicity couples

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