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The Migration Of Horticultural Knowledge: Pacific Island Seasonal Workers In Rural Australia-A Missed Opportunity?, Olivia V. Dun, Natascha Klocker Jan 2017

The Migration Of Horticultural Knowledge: Pacific Island Seasonal Workers In Rural Australia-A Missed Opportunity?, Olivia V. Dun, Natascha Klocker

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

In 2012, Graeme Hugo wrote the article 'Migration and Development in Low-income Countries: A Role for Destination Country Policy?' for the inaugural issue of the journal Migration and Development. That article, which continues to be the journal's most viewed work,1 used the case of Asian and Pacific migration to Australia to question 'whether policies and practices by destination governments relating to international migration and settlement can play a role in facilitating positive developmental impacts in origin communities' (Hugo 2012, 25). The importance of such structural support for development has been underscored, in relation to seasonal worker programs, by growing evidence …


Re-Creating The Rural, Reconstructing Nature: An International Literature Review Of The Environmental Implications Of Amenity Migration, Jesse B. Abrams, Hannah Gosnell, Nicholas J. Gill, Peter J. Klepeis Jan 2012

Re-Creating The Rural, Reconstructing Nature: An International Literature Review Of The Environmental Implications Of Amenity Migration, Jesse B. Abrams, Hannah Gosnell, Nicholas J. Gill, Peter J. Klepeis

Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: part A

The term 'amenity migration' describes a broad diversity of patterns of human movement to rural places in search of particular lifestyle attributes. This review of international literature, drawn from the authors' own prior research and searches on relevant databases, synthesises findings on the implications of amenity migration for the creation and distribution of environmental harms and benefits. Further, we critique common framings of amenity migration-related environmental transformations and offer suggestions for future research. Analysis is positioned within a review of five common themes reflected in the cases we consider: land subdivision and residential development; changes in private land use; cross-boundary …


Remote Real-Time Monitoring Of Subsurface Landfill Gas Migration, Cormac Fay, Aiden R. Doherty, Stephen T. Beirne, F Collins, C Foley, John Healy, Breda M. Kiernan, Hyowon Lee, Damien Maher, D Orpen, Thomas Phelan, Zhengwei Qiu, Kirk Zhang, Cathal Gurrin, Brian Corcoran, Noel E. O'Connor, A F Smeaton, D Diamond Jan 2011

Remote Real-Time Monitoring Of Subsurface Landfill Gas Migration, Cormac Fay, Aiden R. Doherty, Stephen T. Beirne, F Collins, C Foley, John Healy, Breda M. Kiernan, Hyowon Lee, Damien Maher, D Orpen, Thomas Phelan, Zhengwei Qiu, Kirk Zhang, Cathal Gurrin, Brian Corcoran, Noel E. O'Connor, A F Smeaton, D Diamond

Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)

The cost of monitoring greenhouse gas emissions from landfill sites is of major concern for regulatory authorities. The current monitoring procedure is recognised as labour intensive, requiring agency inspectors to physically travel to perimeter borehole wells in rough terrain and manually measure gas concentration levels with expensive hand-held instrumentation. In this article we present a cost-effective and efficient system for remotely monitoring landfill subsurface migration of methane and carbon dioxide concentration levels. Based purely on an autonomous sensing architecture, the proposed sensing platform was capable of performing complex analytical measurements in situ and successfully communicating the data remotely to a …


The Art Of Learning: Wildfire, Amenity Migration And Local Environmental Knowledge, Christine Eriksen, T Prior Jan 2011

The Art Of Learning: Wildfire, Amenity Migration And Local Environmental Knowledge, Christine Eriksen, T Prior

Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)

Communicating the need to prepare well in advance of the wildfire season is a strategic priority for wildfire management agencies worldwide. However, there is considerable evidence to suggest that although these agencies invest significant effort towards this objective in the lead up to each wildfire season, landholders in at-risk locations often remain under-prepared. One reason for the poor translation of risk information materials into actual preparation may be attributed to the diversity of people now inhabiting wildfire-prone locations in peri-urban landscapes. These people hold widely varying experiences, beliefs, attitudes and values relating to wildfire, which influence their understanding and interpretation …


Autonomous Greenhouse Gas Measurement System For Analysis Of Gas Migration On Landfill Sites, Stephen Beirne, Breda M. Kierman, Cormac Fay, Colum Foley, Brian Corcoran, Alan F. Smeaton, Dermot Diamond Jan 2010

Autonomous Greenhouse Gas Measurement System For Analysis Of Gas Migration On Landfill Sites, Stephen Beirne, Breda M. Kierman, Cormac Fay, Colum Foley, Brian Corcoran, Alan F. Smeaton, Dermot Diamond

Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)

This paper describes the design, development and validation of an autonomous gas sensing platform prototype for monitoring of the greenhouse gases, methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2). The deployment undertaken for validation of the developed prototype monitored landfill gas migration to perimeter borehole wells on a landfill site. Target gas concentrations were captured via infrared gas sensors tuned for each target gas and data reported to an offsite data collection point at 12 hour intervals. This bespoke platform and the accompanying data recording and interface software provide a flexible alternative to the presently employed labor intensive, …


Linkages Between Flooding, Migration And Resettlement: Viet Nam Case Study Report For Each-For Project, Olivia V. Dun Jan 2009

Linkages Between Flooding, Migration And Resettlement: Viet Nam Case Study Report For Each-For Project, Olivia V. Dun

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

This report provides the results of an investigation into the linkages between flooding and migration/population displacement in the Mekong Delta of Viet Nam as part of the Environmental Change and Forced Migration Scenarios (EACH-FOR) project. Viet Nam was selected as a country for examining the relationship between environmental change and migration because it is a country prone to water or water-related disasters (Sternin 2003), some of which are thought to be increasing due to the influence of climate change (IPCC 2007, Carew-Reid 2007). Moreover, a large portion of the country’s population is based in rural areas and is directly dependent …


Ion-Molecule Reactions Reveal Facile Radical Migration In Peptides, Stephen J. Blanksby, Benjamin N. Moore, Ryan R. Julian Jan 2009

Ion-Molecule Reactions Reveal Facile Radical Migration In Peptides, Stephen J. Blanksby, Benjamin N. Moore, Ryan R. Julian

Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)

Ion-molecule reactions between molecular oxygen and peptide radicals in the gas phase demonstrate that radical migration occurs easily within large biomolecules without addition of collisional activation energy.


Men, Migration And Hegemonic Masculinity, Mike Donaldson, R. Howson Jan 2009

Men, Migration And Hegemonic Masculinity, Mike Donaldson, R. Howson

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

While migrant men may renegotiate the patriarchal dividend after resettlement in Australia, fundamental elements of their gendered behaviour and beliefs remain unchanged, and may even be reinforced. In particular, working hard in a paying job and doing so for the family while guiding and protecting it, are very strong practices and beliefs that migrant men both bring with them from their homelands, and encounter on their arrival. This cannot be a product of chance or an historical accident, but must reflect resilient underlying structures existent in private and public life.


La Cinematografia Nazionale Australiana Nella Seconda Metà Del Novecento E La Rappresentazione Del Fenomeno Migratorio Non Angloceltico, Gitano Rando Mar 2008

La Cinematografia Nazionale Australiana Nella Seconda Metà Del Novecento E La Rappresentazione Del Fenomeno Migratorio Non Angloceltico, Gitano Rando

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

Although a significant minority of Australia’s population is of non angloceltic origin, Australia’s national cinema has consistently understated the impact and the multiple ramifications of the migration experiences of the many ethnic groups constituting Australia society. Initially geared, in the 1950s, to projecting an image of Australia as an all-accepting earthly paradise, films and documentaries produced up to the end of the 1970s present themes that underscore the superiority of Australian values and the need for the many ethnic groups that have settled in the country to assimilate into mainstream society. It is only in the last part of the …


Defining 'Environmental Migration', Olivia V. Dun, Francois Gemenne Jan 2008

Defining 'Environmental Migration', Olivia V. Dun, Francois Gemenne

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

There is currently no consensus on definitions in this field of study. The resulting variety of terms is not just confusing but unhelpful.


Italian Australian Studies: A (Post)Colonial Perspective, Gerry Turcotte, Gaetano Rando Dec 2007

Italian Australian Studies: A (Post)Colonial Perspective, Gerry Turcotte, Gaetano Rando

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

This chapter introduces the volume and discusses related theoretical issues. This volume seeks to map an understanding of the Italian experience onto the broader picture of diasporic stories, though with an anchor in the Australian-Italian experience. It brings together key essays and testimonials that frame a picture of Italy’s rich legacy at “home”, in Europe more widely, and in the (post)colonial sphere, with a particular emphasis on the Australian experience. The essays collected here focus on the way an Italian Australian story has emerged and evolved in its own unique way. In some respects it might be possible to defi …


Expressions Of The Calabrian Diaspora In Calabrian Australian Writing, Gaetano Rando Dec 2007

Expressions Of The Calabrian Diaspora In Calabrian Australian Writing, Gaetano Rando

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

This chapter is an exhaustive study of literary works, memoirs, theatre and film produced by first and second generation Calabrian Australians.


Mai Lontan Dal Cuore — Manifestazioni E Trasmutazioni Del Rapporto Con Il Paese Di Origine, Gaetano Rando, Gerry Turcotte Dec 2007

Mai Lontan Dal Cuore — Manifestazioni E Trasmutazioni Del Rapporto Con Il Paese Di Origine, Gaetano Rando, Gerry Turcotte

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

The field of Italian Australian studies is both diverse and dynamic. It has embraced topics from outside its “traditional” ambit and has identified new areas of concern to scholars in the field. This volume examines from a post-colonial perspective one of the many and varied cultural practices — the creation of literary texts — established by migrants from Sicily and Calabria who constitute the two major Italian regional groups in Australia. In re-creating aspects of their inhabited past in their new frontier thereby lessening the threat of loss and reconciling their past with their present, these migrants have created a …


Introduction - The Italian Diaspora After The Second World War, James Hagan, Gitano Rando Aug 2007

Introduction - The Italian Diaspora After The Second World War, James Hagan, Gitano Rando

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

This paper provides a critical introduction to the English section of the edited volume La Diaspora italiana dopo la Seconda Guerra Mondiale. The Italian Diaspora after the Second World War, Bivongi [RC], International AM Edizioni, 2007.


From Bicycles To Mercedes. Italians In Rural Nsw And Political Choice: Griffith 1947-1984, James Hagan Jun 2007

From Bicycles To Mercedes. Italians In Rural Nsw And Political Choice: Griffith 1947-1984, James Hagan

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

There were a few Italians in Griffith when the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area Scheme began in 1913, but they did not arrive in large numbers until after the Second World War. They joined over a thousand people of Italian birth or direct descent who had succeeded at small-scale farming and displaced the majority of Australians who had been the original block-holders. This produced some resentment and discrimination, which led to Italians setting up their own economic and social networks. They did not however act as a single community ; fundamental divisions between Northern and Southern immigrants remained and persisted, and so …


Introduzione - La Diaspora Italiana Dopo La Seconda Guerra Mondiale, James Hagan, Gitano Rando Jun 2007

Introduzione - La Diaspora Italiana Dopo La Seconda Guerra Mondiale, James Hagan, Gitano Rando

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

This paper provides a critical introduction to the Italian section of the edited volume La Diaspora italiana dopo la Seconda Guerra Mondiale. The Italian Diaspora after the Second World War, Bivongi [RC], International AM Edizioni, 2007.


Dalle Bicilette Alle Mercede. Gli Italiani Nel New South Wales: Scelte Politiche A Griffith 1947-1984, James Hagan Jun 2007

Dalle Bicilette Alle Mercede. Gli Italiani Nel New South Wales: Scelte Politiche A Griffith 1947-1984, James Hagan

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

There were a few Italians in Griffith when the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area Scheme began in 1913, but they did not arrive in large numbers until after the Second World War. They joined over a thousand people of Italian birth or direct descent who had succeeded at small-scale farming and displaced the majority of Australians who had been the original block-holders. This produced some resentment and discrimination, which led to Italians setting up their own economic and social networks. They did not however act as a single community ; fundamental divisions between Northern and Southern immigrants remained and persisted, and so …


Where Internal And International Migration Intersect: Mobility And The Formation Of Multi-Ethnic Communities In The Riau Islands Transit Zone, Lenore T. Lyons, M. Ford Apr 2007

Where Internal And International Migration Intersect: Mobility And The Formation Of Multi-Ethnic Communities In The Riau Islands Transit Zone, Lenore T. Lyons, M. Ford

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

While migration studies scholars have paid considerable attention to internal migration within Indonesia, as well as to international labour migration flows from Indonesia, they have rarely considered the intersections between these two processes. This article addresses this gap through a close analysis of migration flows in one of Indonesia’s key transit areas – the Riau Islands. We argue that in the borderlands the processes of internal and international migration are mutually constitutive. The Riau Islands’ status as a transit zone for international labour migrants and as a destination for internal migrants determines its demographic profile and policies of migration control. …


Infiltrators, Illegals And Undesirables : Gender And Forced Migration In South Asia, Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase Jan 2005

Infiltrators, Illegals And Undesirables : Gender And Forced Migration In South Asia, Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

It will be argued within this paper, that women’s experiences of displacement and exclusion need to be situated in the relationship between globalisation and neoliberalism. I argue that forced and economic migrations are closely related and are often interchangeable expressions of global inequality. Neo liberal globalisation diminishes all human pursuits into buying and selling. It is elites in the North who have implemented neo-liberal policies into both the North and South over the past twenty five years. These policies have resulted in the eradication of social safeguards which have led to massive gendered displacement. While globalisation may conjure up a …


Expressions Of The Calabrian Diaspora In Calabrian Australian Writing, Gitano Rando Oct 2004

Expressions Of The Calabrian Diaspora In Calabrian Australian Writing, Gitano Rando

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

Although a number of studies on Italian Australian literature have been produced they have to date taken little account of the perception of the diverse experiences of migrants from different Italian regions which display substantial linguistic and cultural diversity and have developed literary cultures both different from and coincidental to Italian national literary culture. The only extensive study that has examined the literary culture of a regional Italian migrant group in Australia is Rando La Cava (1983) which explores the oral dialect literature of the Aeolian communities in Wollongong, Sydney and Melbourne. Some general studies on Italian Australian literature have …


Migration, Music And Social Relations On The Nsw Far North Coast, Christopher Gibson Jan 2002

Migration, Music And Social Relations On The Nsw Far North Coast, Christopher Gibson

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

This article explores urban-rural migration on the NSW Far North Coast (the ‘Northern Rivers’ region) and the emergence of popular music as a niche cultural industry. The various images of the NSW Far North Coast as a ‘lifestyle’ region, ‘alternative’ region and coastal retreat have attracted a diverse mix of exurban professionals, unemployed persons, youth subcultures and retirees, yet despite population growth, the region continues to suffer unemployment rates among the highest in Australia. Against this backdrop, popular music has emerged as a niche industry with linkages to cultural production in Sydney, Melbourne and overseas, and also an area of …