Overview
- Modernises the debate around migration to Australia
- Places Australian scholarship within a global context showing how transnational cities are shaped in an age of migration
- Combines cultural studies and migration studies scholars, with urban transitions literature.
Part of the book series: Global Diversities (GLODIV)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Demographic, Settlement and Environmental Transitions
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Urban Form and Housing Transitions
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Socio-Cultural Transitions
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About this book
The chapters are organised under three sections: demographic, settlement and environmental transitions; urban form and housing transitions; and socio-cultural transitions. Drawing on diverse theoretical and methodological approaches, the chapters engage with a range of factors and influences affecting migration and urban development. This book will be of special interest to scholars and practitioners in the disciplines of sociology, urban planning, geography, public policy and environmental sustainability.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Iris Levin is an architect, urban planner, lecturer and researcher at RMIT University, Australia. She is passionate about working with diverse communities and understanding the effects of migration on the built environment. Her research focuses on housing, social planning, migration and social diversity in cities.
Christian (Andi) Nygaard is an Associate Professor, social economist and Research Theme Leader for New Ways of Urban Living at the Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. His research includes the dynamics of long-term urban change, housing markets and affordability, international migrants in housing, and political-economy social housing provision and transition dynamics.
Peter W. Newton is a Research Professor in Sustainable Urbanism at Swinburne University of Technology’s Centre for Urban Transitions, Melbourne, Australia. His research and publishing interests encompass new planning technologies, future systems of urban settlement, the development dynamics of cities, and urban sustainability transition processes.
Sandy Gifford is an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the Centre for Urban Transitions at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. Her research focuses on refugee settlement and wellbeing.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Migration and Urban Transitions in Australia
Editors: Iris Levin, Christian A. Nygaard, Peter W. Newton, Sandra M. Gifford
Series Title: Global Diversities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91331-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-91330-4Published: 26 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-91333-5Published: 27 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-91331-1Published: 25 May 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-2580
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2599
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXV, 354
Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations
Topics: Migration, Urban Studies/Sociology, Social Policy, Politics of the Welfare State, Social Work and Community Development, Comparative Social Policy