TY - JOUR
T1 - Ethnic capital and assimilation to the Great Australian (homeownership) Dream
T2 - the early housing experience of Australia's skilled immigrants
AU - Forrest, James
AU - Johnston, Ron
AU - Poulsen, Michael
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - We use the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia, 2005-2006, to examine the housing tenure experience of skilled immigrants to Australia 6 and 18 months after arrival for relationships with ethnic capital (cultural background), visa category streams, aspects of human capital, demographics, social capital and discrimination. Homeownership experience is used to indicate integration into Australia's dominantly middle-class society. Multinomial regression analysis identifies visa entry category as the most important independent group of variables accounting for immigrants' short-term dwelling tenure, followed by aspects of human capital, family status, and the importance of ethnic capital for immigrants of both English-speaking and non-English-speaking backgrounds, and discrimination.
AB - We use the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia, 2005-2006, to examine the housing tenure experience of skilled immigrants to Australia 6 and 18 months after arrival for relationships with ethnic capital (cultural background), visa category streams, aspects of human capital, demographics, social capital and discrimination. Homeownership experience is used to indicate integration into Australia's dominantly middle-class society. Multinomial regression analysis identifies visa entry category as the most important independent group of variables accounting for immigrants' short-term dwelling tenure, followed by aspects of human capital, family status, and the importance of ethnic capital for immigrants of both English-speaking and non-English-speaking backgrounds, and discrimination.
KW - ethnic capital
KW - skilled immigrants
KW - housing tenure
KW - Australia
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84900551230&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00049182.2014.899024
DO - 10.1080/00049182.2014.899024
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84900551230
SN - 0004-9182
VL - 45
SP - 109
EP - 129
JO - Australian Geographer
JF - Australian Geographer
IS - 2
ER -