Settlement experiences of Taiwanese immigrants in Australia

Shifting dynamics of Chinese settlement in Australia: an urban geographic perspective

“…Furthermore, there is only one concentration in the centre of Melbourne from 2011, possibly explained first by the concentration of MC‐born international students enrolled at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and the University of Melbourne and second by apartment construction targeting both students and overseas investors (Pascoe, ). A similar settlement pattern can be observed in Brisbane, where MC‐born migrants concentrate in Sunnybank and MacGregor, which were occupied mainly by Taiwan‐born migrants from the late 1980s onward (Ip et al ., ).…”

“…In the 50 years after the Australian government's Immigration Restriction Act and White Australia Policy were implemented in 1901, the Chinese population of Australia declined in number (Lam, 2006;Lung, 2008). After these laws and policy instruments were eased in the 1950s and 1960s, the Australian government implemented other policies to advance cultural pluralism in the 1970s and multiculturalism in the 1980s (Ip et al, 1998). One effect was to encourage a new wave of Chinese migrants from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the 'Nanyang' countries in Southeast Asia.…”

“…Compared with previous waves of ethnic Chinese migrants from outside Mainland China, MC-born migrants were more heavily restricted by domestic politics and policies until 1984, when China eased restrictions and launched the 'open door policy' (Huang et al, 2016, p.58). A cohort of 37,000 young Chinese students arriving in Australia in 1989 represented the start of the contemporary wave of MC-born migrants (Ip et al, 1998). Students and their families settled primarily in low-income and middle-income inner-city suburbs (Burnley, 2002), reflecting both the relative affordability and centrality of these locations.…”

SeekingHomo Economicus: The Canadian State and the Strange Story of the Business Immigration Program

“…In general, economic migrants from Hong Kong and Taiwan-including business immigrants-have experienced modest economic success in both Australia and New Zealand (Ho and Bedford 1998;Ip, Wu, and Inglis 1998;Burrill 2000). As in Canada, astronaut commuting and return migration are integral parts of a circular, transnational encounter with space (Mak 1997;Ho, Ip, and Bedford 2000;Ley and Kobayashi 2002).…”

Middle-class Asian immigrants and welfare multiculturalism: A case study of a Japanese community organisation in Sydney

“…1 In the field of Australian immigration studies, research has been conducted on immigrants from countries and regions such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, India and Japan, many of whom are middle-class immigrants. Previous studies have depicted middle-class immigrants as people who have diasporic and hybrid identities between their homelands and Australia (Inglis and Wu, 1992;Mitchell, 2003;Mar, 1998;Ip, Wu and Inglis, 1998;Helweg, 1985;Shiobara, 2004). However, these studies have not adequately examined the relationship between Asian 2 middleclass immigrants and multicultural welfare policies; in particular, the need for welfare support for these immigrants in their everyday lives in Australia has been neglected.…”