title: Gender, age, and ethnicity in immigration for an Australian nation.
abstract: An analysis of Australian immigration policy since the Second World War is presented. The emphasis is on the gender and age of preferred immigrants, rather than on their race or place of birth. "The author proposes that selection of immigrant settlers in Australia since World War 2 has been gendered as well as racialised, often combining particular sexisms with particular racisms and specifying the ways that ethnicity and gender should coexist in immigrants of different age groups. She notes implications for immigrants once in Australia (especially women) of the category under which they have entered the country. And she suggests that a new phase relating immigration to redefinition of the Australian nation, in which the temporary migration of skilled workers is preferred to their permanent migration, may be beginning; a phase whose modes of regulation and outcomes are as distinctively gendered as were those of their predecessors."
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fincher
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D001315:Australia; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D010139:Pacific Islands; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011640:Public Policy; D014171:Transients and Migrants
keywords: Age Factors; Australia; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Gender Issues; Immigrants--women; International Migration; Migrants; Migration; Migration Policy; Oceania; Policy; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Population Policy; Social Policy; Temporary Migration