Social cohesion in rural Australia: Framework for conformity or social justice?

Moran, Anthony; Mallman, Mark

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“…Stage Three of the project, on which this paper is focussed, involved collection of qualitative data, including 18 interviews with students based at La Trobe University’s Shepparton and Mildura campuses. Shepparton and Mildura are regional cities within the state of Victoria, with populations of slightly more than 50,000 (Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), 2017a, 2017b), with significant histories of migration and reputations for being multicultural regional cities, though they retain majority Anglo-Australian populations (Moran and Mallman, 2015). Both cities are served by a relatively small university campus.…”

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Beyond cultural capital: Understanding the strengths of new migrants within higher education

Harvey

Mallman

2019

Policy Futures in Education

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This paper explores the experiences of new migrants in Australian higher education, based on interviews conducted across two regional university campuses in 2017. New migrants, particularly from refugee backgrounds, often have limited university access and face specific challenges throughout and beyond their university experiences. Under-representation has led to a focus on what new migrants lack, in particular their putative paucity of cultural capital required to navigate and succeed in higher education. It is institutions, however, which frequently lack the willingness or capacity to recognise various strengths and forms of capital possessed by ethnically diverse students. Adopting a critical race theory lens enables identification of those forms of student capital, along with the barriers that may prevent capital from being widely recognised within the academy and/or being fully realised for students in their navigation of work, study, and life. Specifically, this article examines the value of resistant, familial and linguistic capital. New migrant students face specific challenges when their cultural strengths meet institutional and broader structural barriers. It is critical for institutions that the diverse and complex perspectives of under-represented students be harnessed to increase the quality of learning for all students. Compositional diversity on campus is necessary but insufficient to promote deep learning and a positive student experience.

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Beyond cultural capital: Understanding the strengths of new migrants within higher education

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Mallman

2019

Policy Futures in Education

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“…Here program participants spoke highly of their enjoyment of the program, whilst acknowledging that it had not changed any of the broader structural issues that participants said impacted upon their lives and reinforced their minority status (Stead, 2017). However, other research into social cohesion in two regional communities in Victoria found that local stakeholders felt that addressing structural concerns was an integral component of social cohesion (Moran & Mallman, 2019). Moran and Mallman (2019) indeed concluded that social cohesion does have the capacity to be delivered in a way that emphasises social justice and responds to structural issues, rather than promoting an underlying neoliberal agenda.…”

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“…However, other research into social cohesion in two regional communities in Victoria found that local stakeholders felt that addressing structural concerns was an integral component of social cohesion (Moran & Mallman, 2019). Moran and Mallman (2019) indeed concluded that social cohesion does have the capacity to be delivered in a way that emphasises social justice and responds to structural issues, rather than promoting an underlying neoliberal agenda.…”

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“…A high level of social cohesion is generally viewed as a desirable goal for communities (Scheifer & van der Noll, 2017), despite criticism that it has the potential to estrange some groups, particularly in relation to ethnic diversity and socioeconomic inequality (Sharples & Colic-Peisker, 2022) through its propensity to encourage homogeneity over diversity (Moran & Mallman, 2019). Social cohesion is commonly critiqued for its neoliberal approach to governing diversity, in that it tends to gloss over structural issues and inequality through its intention to unite community members based upon commonality (Amin, 2005;Fremeaux, 2005).…”

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Examining the experiences of intercultural ambassadors in regional Victoria from 2019 to 2021

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“…Research in Australia reflects trends in other locations. Overlapping interests have been in the transformations of rural places through migration, which have been captured through various sociological concepts including social integration, belonging ( De Lima, 2012 ), and social cohesion (in Australia, Moran and Mallman, 2019 ), rural multiculturalism ( Wilding and Nunn, 2018 ) and rural cosmopolitanism ( Schech, 2014 ; Woods, 2018a ) (for which Woods (2018b) has identified early beginnings in late 19th and early 20th century Australia). Scholars in Europe and Australia have highlighted the interconnectedness of rural places with others through the concept “translocalism” ( De Lima, 2012 ) and “multi-local settlement” ( Boese et al 2020 ).…”

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The Regional Migration-Development Nexus in Australia: What Migration? Whose Development?

Boese

Moran

2021

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Both regional resettlement of refugees, and the attraction of different kinds of migrant labor to regional areas, have been significant trends in Australia’s recent migration policies. Using the concept of the migration-development nexus, we address important questions about the nature and scope of development these different policies aim to promote, and achieve. We examine the intersection of policies and initiatives implemented to encourage and support refugee settlement and regional migration in Australia with the perspectives of regionally settled migrants and refugees on their regional migration outcomes. We argue that recent government policies, and multi-stakeholder initiatives aimed at regional migration and/or settlement, cast migrants as differential contributors to regional development, useful either in terms of their skills (skilled migrants) or their labor (backpackers, seasonal workers, refugees). The co-presence of different groups of migrants in regional locations is also shaped by the fluctuating employer demands for mobile labor in combination with visa regulations. We draw on data from three projects on regional settlement, multiculturalism and mobilities to analyze three important elements of regional migration that are central to a critical analysis of the nexus between rural migration and development in regional Australia: the complex roles of employers; the embedding of regional migration in migrants’ life courses; and the tension between long-term migration outcomes and quick fixes. By focusing on development as it is experienced by migrants themselves and interpreted by different stakeholders in regional migration, we draw attention to the limitations of a purely instrumental view of migrants as agents of regional development. We argue that the sustainability of regional migration policies will depend on recognizing the important role of migrants’ hopes, needs and aspirations as well as their rights, and the unintended human costs and consequences of exclusively economically driven migration policy design.

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Social cohesion in rural Australia: Framework for conformity or social justice?

Abstract: While social cohesion has become a commonly accepted policy goal and framework in many ethnically diverse soci-

Cited by 15 publications

References 20 publications

Beyond cultural capital: Understanding the strengths of new migrants within higher education

Beyond cultural capital: Understanding the strengths of new migrants within higher education

Examining the experiences of intercultural ambassadors in regional Victoria from 2019 to 2021

The Regional Migration-Development Nexus in Australia: What Migration? Whose Development?

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