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The decline of ‘advantageous disadvantage’ in gateway suburbs in Australia: The challenge of private housing market settlement for newly arrived migrants

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  • Hazel Easthope

    (University of New South Wales, Australia)

  • Wendy Stone

    (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)

  • Lynda Cheshire

    (University of Queensland, Australia)

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The spatial concentration of recently arrived immigrants in gateway cities and suburbs is usually seen as undesirable by urban academics and policy makers. This paper presents a counter-argument that the concentration of disadvantaged new immigrants in the form of humanitarian refugees and their families can, and does, result in positive outcomes for those groups. In part, our argument is based on making a distinction between people-based disadvantage and place-based disadvantage. The paper examines the changing nature of place-based ‘advantage’ for immigrants in Australian gateway cities through a focus on two metropolitan locations, Auburn (Sydney) and Springvale (Melbourne), known as popular destination suburbs for recent immigrants. While these two cases validate the benefits of such gateway suburbs, they also demonstrate that the capacity of recent migrants to emulate concentrated settlement patterns is now significantly undermined by changes in the labour market and affordability problems in the housing market. The paper concludes with a discussion on the possible future of gateway suburbs and the implications of this shift for the wellbeing of particular groups of disadvantaged residents.

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  • Hazel Easthope & Wendy Stone & Lynda Cheshire, 2018. "The decline of ‘advantageous disadvantage’ in gateway suburbs in Australia: The challenge of private housing market settlement for newly arrived migrants," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 55(9), pages 1904-1923, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:55:y:2018:i:9:p:1904-1923
    DOI: 10.1177/0042098017700791
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