The suburb of Cabramatta has long been known as a highly populated area by Indo-Chinese migrants and influenced manifestly by their culture since the influx of refuges from the Vietnam War and Australia’s change in past migration policies. Cabramatta has been the centre of academic debates and literature since the 1990’s due to the ethnic residential concentration within the one area. Ethnic residential concentration is the large migration of one group from a particular culture to another country and residing within the same area, impacting the cultural landscape. This essay will provide evidence showing that although there are negative aspects in relation to high ethnic residential concentration with in Cabramatta, it is significantly outweighed
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Due to this change an estimated 300, 000 Chinese and 200,000 Vietnamese immigrants have resettled within Australia since 1975 through a series of migration programs (Collins 2013 & Coughlan 2008). This impacted Cabramatta drastically during the 70’s as Refugees and migrants found asylum within Australia after the Vietnam War, now 27.7% of residents within Cabramatta have Vietnamese ancestry, and 27.0% have Chinese (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2011). Studies have theorised that these Indo-Chinese cultures migrated to Cabramatta due to the attractiveness of low-price renting, low socio-economic climate and the close proximity to refugee centres (Dunn 1993 pp. 232). Also a factor was the availability of industrial or Factory work that required little qualifications, enabling Indo-Chinese migrants to obtain work and be able to sponsor and accommodate for family members or friends to resettle within Australia causing a chain migration (Dun 1993 & Waitt et all …show more content…
The positive functions such as Cabramatta’s cultural identity, cultural landscape and organisations, the peaks in tourism, Vietnamese-specific services and religious places of worship have been examined to show that there are overall a higher number of positive consequences to ethnic concentration than negative through academic literature and photographic evidence. Studies have also displayed that by Cabramatta harnessing its unique culturally identity, it is a positive contribution to Australia’s Multicultural policy and the wider
Due to this change an estimated 300, 000 Chinese and 200,000 Vietnamese immigrants have resettled within Australia since 1975 through a series of migration programs (Collins 2013 & Coughlan 2008). This impacted Cabramatta drastically during the 70’s as Refugees and migrants found asylum within Australia after the Vietnam War, now 27.7% of residents within Cabramatta have Vietnamese ancestry, and 27.0% have Chinese (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2011). Studies have theorised that these Indo-Chinese cultures migrated to Cabramatta due to the attractiveness of low-price renting, low socio-economic climate and the close proximity to refugee centres (Dunn 1993 pp. 232). Also a factor was the availability of industrial or Factory work that required little qualifications, enabling Indo-Chinese migrants to obtain work and be able to sponsor and accommodate for family members or friends to resettle within Australia causing a chain migration (Dun 1993 & Waitt et all …show more content…
The positive functions such as Cabramatta’s cultural identity, cultural landscape and organisations, the peaks in tourism, Vietnamese-specific services and religious places of worship have been examined to show that there are overall a higher number of positive consequences to ethnic concentration than negative through academic literature and photographic evidence. Studies have also displayed that by Cabramatta harnessing its unique culturally identity, it is a positive contribution to Australia’s Multicultural policy and the wider