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
What are the issues associated with the Resettlement process?
the creation of hybrid identities. i.e young people placing a different stress on ‘who they are’ depending upon social situations
