April 7th 2010

Australia today has more immigrants than most western nations, but are migrants and minority communities aspiring to acceptance in Australia in a no-win situation?

Drawing on fascinating research into the weave of multi-cultural Australia, this public lecture maps the dizzying social, economic and cosmopolitan contradictions that make up our society. While exposing the worrying realities for ethnically diverse communities and immigrants in our country, it calls for a fresh approach to managing Australia’s diversity or risk serious economic and social loss.

Professor Jock Collins

Jock Collins is a UTS Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre. For 35 years he has studied immigration and cultural diversity in the economy and society. His recent research focuses on Australian immigration, ethnic crime, immigrant entrepreneurship, immigrant youth, ethnic precincts and tourism, immigrant teachers, immigrants in regional and rural Australia and the social use of ethnic heritage and the built environment. He is the author or co-author of nine books and is widely published in journals, many of which have been translated into other languages. Jock has spent times as a visiting academic in the UK, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United States and has consulted to the OECD, ILO and the Australian and NSW governments.

Introduced by

Pino Migliorino, Chairman, Federation of Ethnic Community Councils of Australia

Resources

• flyer (PDF 193k)
• audio recording (MP3 30 MB)
• presentation slides (PDF 319k)
• video (Opens video presentation) video (Opens video presentation) A transcript is available.

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