Competitiveness, Migration, and Mobility in the Global City: Insights from Sydney, Australia

Hu, Richard

doi:10.3390/economies3010037

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“…Gentrification and urban consolidation have transformed inner‐ring suburbs into medium density housing precincts, pushing people with lower incomes and less advantaged employment, education, and family structures into the middle ring with its more affordable housing (Forster, ; Hugo, ). Immigrants with limited proficiency in English are concentrated in disadvantaged suburbs, although immigration in Australia is not, per se, synonymous with disadvantage (Hu, ).…”

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Mapping schools' NAPLAN results: a spatial inequality of school outcomes in Australia

Smith

Parr

Muhidin

2018

Geographical Research

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This article identifies spatial dimensions of educational outcomes using maps of the 2016 Grade 5 reading results for Australia's National Assessment Program–Literacy and Numeracy for all Australian schools. A geographical information system (GIS) was used to overlay schools' results onto suburbs' advantage or disadvantage to visualise spatial patterns. We then examined the extent to which school results “cluster” in socio‐economically advantaged and disadvantaged suburbs and considered the consistency of spatial patterns for results across major cities. That work illustrates both how GIS can foreground educational inequality and how “the spatial” is more than corollary for student socio‐economic status. Results show substantial differences between urban and remote areas and towns of different size. Maps of cities visualise spatial “clustering” patterns of school results, with most schools in advantaged suburbs having high results and almost no schools in disadvantaged suburbs having high results. Educational outcomes strongly align to local socio‐demographic characteristics, and parallel host communities’ levels of advantage or disadvantage. Differences between public and private schools are less significant than within‐sector differences for schools in advantaged or disadvantaged locales. Patterns in all cities are consistent—schools in advantaged suburbs predominantly have high results, whereas non‐government schools generally perform better than government schools in disadvantaged suburbs. Most concerning is the persistent and increasing trajectory of results in advantaged, and more so in disadvantaged suburbs, of all cities since the first National Assessment Program–Literacy and Numeracy in 2008. Ameliorating spatial inequality between primary schools is one of the greatest challenges for Australians.

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Mapping schools' NAPLAN results: a spatial inequality of school outcomes in Australia

Smith

Parr

Muhidin

2018

Geographical Research

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“…Common reasons for urban‐centric immigrant settlement are community networks, support systems, services and employment opportunities (Agutter & Ankeny, 2016). “Global city” (Sassen, 2004, p. 27) status of cities like Sydney and Melbourne and their economic and cultural prominence in the current world economic order are also pull factors (Hu, 2015). Few attempts were made before 1996 to formally address these settlement patterns; however, a policy shift post‐1996 has seen immigrants redirected to regional and rural areas with focussed migration‐related schemes (Hugo, 2004).…”

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Sticky places for regional immigrant settlement: A literature review

Bakshi,

McKenzie,

Bolleter

2024

Aust J Social Issues

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Since 1996, migration‐related schemes have directed new immigrants, refugees and humanitarian entrants to regional Australia to mitigate the need for skills and declining population growth in these locations. However, a key concern of these schemes is the uncertainty of long‐term immigrant retention in regional locations beyond the stipulated visa category period. We draw on the metaphor of stickiness: the ability of geographic clusters to attract and retain to examine Australian regional settlement literature and identify factors and processes associated with immigrant settlement and retention. Through a systematic and rigorous review process, we identify seven interconnected factors and processes nestled amongst three core themes of sticky factors and processes that attract, enable and impede settlement and retention contributing to the growing knowledge regarding regional immigrant settlement and retention.

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“…This study focuses on the concentration of people in urban areas caused by increased mobility. People tend to migrate to or visit urban areas in search of higher income and opportunities for jobs and leisure in both developed and developing countries [14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. As transportation and ICT become more widespread, concentration in urban areas will likely strengthen.…”

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Disparity of Density in the Age of Mobility: Analysis by Opinion Formation Model

Horiuchi

2023

Computers

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High mobility has promoted the concentration of people’s aggregation in urban areas. As people pursue areas with higher density, gentrification and sprawl become more serious. Disadvantaged people are then pushed out of urban centers. Conversely, as mobility increases, the disadvantaged may also migrate in pursuit of their desired density. As a result, disparities relative to density and housing may shrink. Hence, migration is a complex system. Understanding the effects of migration on disparities intuitively is difficult. This study explored the effects of mobility on disparity using an agent-based model of opinion formation. We find that as mobility increases, disparities between agents in density and diversity widen, but as mobility increases further, the disparities shrink, and then widen again. Our results present possibilities for a just city in the age of mobility.

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Competitiveness, Migration, and Mobility in the Global City: Insights from Sydney, Australia

Cited by 8 publications

References 37 publications

Mapping schools' NAPLAN results: a spatial inequality of school outcomes in Australia

Mapping schools' NAPLAN results: a spatial inequality of school outcomes in Australia

Sticky places for regional immigrant settlement: A literature review

Disparity of Density in the Age of Mobility: Analysis by Opinion Formation Model

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