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Book synopsis

The author sets out to examine migration movements to Australia and
the role of successive immigration legislation: from the notorious
White Australia Policy through to the contemporary multicultural
agenda. Her detailed case study sheds new light on the experiences of
Polish migrants of the 1980s and their children in Melbourne.
The story of successive waves of migration - particularly following
the Second World War - and the influence of these on multicultural
Australia provide the context of this study. Of particular interest
is the relationship between the policy of multiculturalism and
language maintenance among first generation Polish migrants and their
children (the second generation).
In her empirical study of language maintenance, the author
analyses 'push' and 'pull' factors for migration from Poland to
Australia. She examines the costs of migration; Polish migrants'
experiences of Australia's multicultural policy; an evaluation of
parents' migration by their children; re-migration to Poland;
interaction between Polish migrants and Australian-born people; and
the influence of domains such as the home, institutions of learning,
the Polish Catholic Church, the media and other organisations and
spheres of Polish cultural activity.



Contents

Contents: Migration Movements to Australia - Migration Policies in
Australia - Migration and Language Maintenance in Multicultural
Australia - Polish Migrants and their Children: Language maintenance
theories and factors - Polish Migration to Australia - a historical
background and characteristics - Migration and Polish Language
Maintenance among the First Generation 1980s Polish Migrants and
their Second Generation Children from Endogamous and Exogamous
Marriages in Melbourne - an empirical study - Push and Pull Factors
to Migrate - Effects on Polish Migrants of Government Policies
(Polish and Australian).



About the author(s)/editor(s)

The Author: Beata Leuner was born in Poland and educated there and in
Germany. She graduated with a Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Sciences
from the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). Her interest
in Australian migration issues dates from her first visit to
Melbourne in 1999 as a Master's exchange student at Monash
University.
She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Business
and Law and the Institute for Community Engagement and Policy
Alternatives at Victoria University, as well as an Honorary Research
Fellow in European/German Studies at Monash University. She has also
conducted research at the Horwood Language Centre of the University
of Melbourne.