Week 7 Flashcards
How is ethnicity is criminology defined?
non-Anglo-Australians and who are also not Indigenous
Explain the Vietnamese Migration to Australia between 1975-1985
- 4 immigration waves
- concentrated in Melbourne and Sydney
- many of these Vietnamese immigrants were very young when they arrived
Explain the Turkish Migration to Australia
- mass immigration in 1967
- employment- ‘guest workers’
- by the 1980’s, the second generation was seen to be doing well in the education system
Explain the Pacific Islander Migration to Australia
- Polynesian- Maoris, Samoans, Fijians ect
- overpopulation issues on their home islands
- prioritises their traditional kinship networks and hierarchical levels of status and control
Explain the Horn of Africa and Sudanese Migration to Australia
- drought
- war
- Somalis and sudanese
Explain Anglo-Australians from British Commonwealth countries or former colonies
- largest category of migrants to Australia
- From Scotland, England, Ireland, United States, Canada, NZ and South Africa
- faced problems but quite different from other immigrants
Policies pertaining to immigration and resettlement are primarily constructed under the auspices of ‘______’ in Australia, although what this means is sometimes contested
Multiculturalism
in 1901, a parliamentary debate on immigration restriction, the kind of debate that led to the ‘_____ _____” policy, Attorney General, _____ ______ stated that the Japanese and Chinese were a threat to the newly formed Federation
White Australia
Alfred Deakin
What are the social processes that can significantly impact upon the way the lives of young ethnic immigrants
- integration
- incorporation
- exclusion
- vilification
According to ____ ____, a moral panic occurs when “…a condition, episode, person or group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests…”
Stanley Cohen
Ethnic minorities=
previously underrepresented in the official crime statistics
moral panics concerning ethnic youth gangs has been linked to the processes of:
Urbanisation and Industrialisation
Social identity is significantly determined by 3 factors:
Ethnicity
Socioeconomic class
Gender
the process of transforming the OTHER into the ORDINARY involves:
Integration
Assimilation
Why be apart of an ethnic gang?
social connection
social belonging
something to aspire to
Exciting things to do, usually crime
