Bulletin n. 3/2015 | ||
January 2016 | ||
Hawthorne Lesleyanne |
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Australian Strategic Approaches to Managing National and State Diversity | ||
in Fédéralisme Régionalisme , Volume 15, The Management of Immigration Related Cultural Diversity in Federal Countries , 2015 | ||
Australia is a global exemplar of nation-building through government planned and administered skilled, family and humanitarian migration programs. By 2011 26% of the population were immigrants, at a time when extraordinary linguistic, religious, racial and cultural diversity were evident. The federal government’s role since the 1901 establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia has spanned migration policy formation, selection, admission, compliance and naturalization functions. The settlement responsibilities of the eight state and territory governments have also grown – a process facilitated by generally amicable federal – subnational relations. Within this context this article describes contemporary Australian approaches to managing linguistic, religious and artistic diversity, comparing federal and state government roles in a period associated with significant multicultural challenges. Full text available online at http://popups.ulg.ac.be/1374-3864/index.php?id=1583 | ||