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Papers by James Forrest
Australian Journal of Social Issues, 2020
Australia today is a culturally diverse nation with people from over 190 different countries clai... more Australia today is a culturally diverse nation with people from over 190 different countries claiming 300 different ancestries. But despite an official commitment to diversity, contemporary Australian society continues to experience tensions between multicultural policies and a legacy of Anglo privilege and cultural dominance. To assess this, the Challenging Racism Project conducted a national survey, commissioned by the Special Broadcasting Service, to gauge the nature and extent of racist attitudes and experience of racism across Australia during July-August 2015 and November 2015. Results show that sociodemographic characteristics show little contemporary relationship to racist attitudes. Age, once associated with "old" racist attitudes, is no longer significant. On the other hand, Anglo privilege is empirically linked to racism through notions of social dominance. We conclude that it is to the media, and to public discourse generally, to which future research attention, using critical discourse analysis, should turn in efforts to make Australia a fairer, more tolerant, multicultural society.
Tensions between acceptance of policies aimed at creating a multicultural society and British (An... more Tensions between acceptance of policies aimed at creating a multicultural society and British (Anglo or Anglo-Celtic) Australians concerned about loss of their privileged position as members of the dominant society have been an important feature of political debate in Australia in recent years. There is, however, a paucity of empirical evidence available to assess the extent of recognition of Anglo privilege in this debate. This study draws on questions about attitudes to multicultural values and Anglo privilege from a recent survey of New South Wales and Queensland respondents to address this issue. Principal components analysis of the attitudinal data shows that multiculturalism and privilege are separate, independent dimensions in respondents' thinking. Cross-tabulations show both polarization of views and ambivalence in attitudes to Anglo privilege, which are in substantial part resolved by consideration of the geography of privilege and linked multicultural values. KEYWORDS Australia • geography • multiculturalism • White (Anglo) privilege
Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2017
Views of country school teachers towards multicultural education and anti-racism policy directive... more Views of country school teachers towards multicultural education and anti-racism policy directives are examined against a background of a largely 'white' landscape but increasing numbers of language background other than English (LBOTE) immigrants. A 10 per cent response from a self-administered online survey of government primary and secondary classroom teachers in country New South Wales examines their attitudes to cultural diversity, goals of multicultural education, and anti-racist strategies. Though strongly supportive of attempts to combat racism, implementation in some schools lags behind intention. Whether on cultural diversity, multiculturalism or acknowledgement of racism, teacher attitudes are more tolerant than those in the wider communities the schools serve. But while among teachers and the wider community there is some level of intolerance and discrimination towards Aboriginal and LBOTE Australians, such attitudes do not vary significantly across country areas with different cultural diversity mixes, except for recognition of the needs of Aboriginal students among teachers.
Geographical Research, 2017
Most models of immigrant minority enclave formation in cities represent their situation as relati... more Most models of immigrant minority enclave formation in cities represent their situation as relatively transient elements in urban residential mosaics. As minority group members become both economically integrated and socially-culturally assimilated into the host society, so they move away from the enclaves where they initially concentrated. Such shifts are especially likely among the second and later generations of group members, who are more likely to overcome the disadvantages experienced by many of the original settlers with regard to human capital. This paper evaluates that model using data on the residential distributions of three generations of those claiming membership of one of nineteen different ancestral groups in Sydney in 2011, at four nested spatial scales, deploying a recently developed inferential method for evaluating the intensity of residential segregation. The findings are not consistent with the model: in general, members of the second and third generations in any ancestral group are as segregated as the first generation (that is, those born outside Australia) at both regional and neighbourhood scales.
Race Ethnicity and Education, 2015
How school teachers act to challenge racism in schools is a vital concern in an immigrant society... more How school teachers act to challenge racism in schools is a vital concern in an immigrant society like Australia. A 10% response from a self-administered online survey of government (public) primary and secondary school teachers across Sydney, Australia’s largest EthniCity, examines attitudes of classroom teachers towards cultural diversity, goals of multicultural education, and strategies to implement anti-racist strategies. Principal components analysis (PCA) of attitudes tease out the varied influence of opinion on multicultural education, diversity, and anti-racism. Classroom teachers are overwhelmingly supportive of cultural diversity, multicultural education and strategies to combat racism and discrimination, and these views hardly vary across the different geographic zones of the city, unlike attitudes within the general community. However, teacher knowledge about the implementation of multicultural policy does vary, and is positively associated with the extent of population diversity and socio-economic status (SES) of the communities surrounding the schools.
New South Wales Public Health Bulletin, 1992
State of Australian Cities National Conference, 2005
Australian Geographer, 2017
Recent decades have seen substantial growth across many developed-world countries of right-wing p... more Recent decades have seen substantial growth across many developed-world countries of right-wing populist political parties whose policies oppose immigration and multiculturalism as threats to the majority way of life there. These are exemplified in Australia by Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party, which was successful at elections there at the turn of the twenty-first century and again in 2016. Part of this party's rhetoric focuses on the geography of immigrant groups in Australia's cities, with claims that their members live in ghettos. Is that factually correct? Using data from the 2011 Australian census this paper analyses the distribution of Asians and Muslims (the two groups picked out by One Nation and its leader) at four spatial scales within the country's 11 largest urban areas. It finds no evidence at all of intensive residential segregation of Muslims, and although there are concentrations of Asians-notably in Sydney and Melbourne-most residents claiming Asian ancestry live in neighbourhoods and suburbs where they form a minority (in many cases a small minority) only of the local population.
PsycEXTRA Dataset
There is a perception that Indigenous Australians are uneasy with or distrustful of multicultural... more There is a perception that Indigenous Australians are uneasy with or distrustful of multiculturalism. Such unease has been attributed to the problematic positioning of Indigeneity within immigrant focused concepts of multiculturalism and its associated policies in a settler society. What are the attitudinal implications of this concern? There has been scant research on Indigenous Australians' attitudes to cultural diversity. Nationwide survey findings reveal that despite perceived concerns with multiculturalism, Indigenous people are not uneasy with cultural diversity as such. In fact, Indigenous respondents are largely supportive of diversity, which is one of the central tenets of multiculturalism. In most respects their attitudes on cultural diversity and views on old racisms are similar to those of non-Indigenous Australians. Indigenous Australians are, however, more likely than non-Indigenous Australians to recognise the problems of racism generally and Anglo-Celtic cultural privilege.
Local Population Studies, 2014
Racisms in the New World Order Realities of Cultures Colours and Identity, 2015
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 00323269508402357, Sep 21, 2007
... Representatives and Senate Elections of 1990 and 1993: A Comparative Analysis JAMESFORREST Ma... more ... Representatives and Senate Elections of 1990 and 1993: A Comparative Analysis JAMESFORREST Macquarie University ... O AusJPS 199S Page 2. JAMES FORREST 569 in terms of 'tactical voting' during the 1987 general election campaign (Galbraith and Rae 1989). ...
British Review of New Zealand Studies, 2004
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2010
Handbook of the Changing World Language Map
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 2003
New Zealand's population growth of 10 per cent over the decade 1991-2001 resulted substantially f... more New Zealand's population growth of 10 per cent over the decade 1991-2001 resulted substantially from an increasing number of those claiming Pacific Island and Asian ethnicity, and to a lesser extent of the New Zealand Maori. Using census data for a comparable set of small areas with average populations of just over 100, this paper examines the changing geography of the four main ethnic categories-New Zealand European, New Zealand Maori, Pacific Island Peoples, and Asians-across the country as a whole and in its major settlements, especially Auckland. There is little extreme segregation of the three minority groups, but most of the Europeans live in areas where there is little exposure to those of other ethnicities. Most of the changes in segregation reflect the growth of Auckland's Pacific Island and, especially, Asian populations.
Environment and Planning a, 2010
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 00049188608702903, Feb 25, 2007
ABSTRACT Completion of the Atlas of population and housing, 1981 census series (Australia. Divisi... more ABSTRACT Completion of the Atlas of population and housing, 1981 census series (Australia. Division of National Mapping et al.1983, 1984a‐f) marks the culmination of a decade of work in the urban social atlas field. But over that period there is evidence of increasing divergence of purpose, from initially twin objectives, theoretical and applied, to the avowedly applied focus of recent efforts. The future would appear to be seen by many practitioners in purely applied terms. Recent developments in expert systems and artificial intelligence, however, will require the reforging of links between conceptual thinking and technical advancement.
The Australian Quarterly, 1995
Australian Journal of Social Issues, 2020
Australia today is a culturally diverse nation with people from over 190 different countries clai... more Australia today is a culturally diverse nation with people from over 190 different countries claiming 300 different ancestries. But despite an official commitment to diversity, contemporary Australian society continues to experience tensions between multicultural policies and a legacy of Anglo privilege and cultural dominance. To assess this, the Challenging Racism Project conducted a national survey, commissioned by the Special Broadcasting Service, to gauge the nature and extent of racist attitudes and experience of racism across Australia during July-August 2015 and November 2015. Results show that sociodemographic characteristics show little contemporary relationship to racist attitudes. Age, once associated with "old" racist attitudes, is no longer significant. On the other hand, Anglo privilege is empirically linked to racism through notions of social dominance. We conclude that it is to the media, and to public discourse generally, to which future research attention, using critical discourse analysis, should turn in efforts to make Australia a fairer, more tolerant, multicultural society.
Tensions between acceptance of policies aimed at creating a multicultural society and British (An... more Tensions between acceptance of policies aimed at creating a multicultural society and British (Anglo or Anglo-Celtic) Australians concerned about loss of their privileged position as members of the dominant society have been an important feature of political debate in Australia in recent years. There is, however, a paucity of empirical evidence available to assess the extent of recognition of Anglo privilege in this debate. This study draws on questions about attitudes to multicultural values and Anglo privilege from a recent survey of New South Wales and Queensland respondents to address this issue. Principal components analysis of the attitudinal data shows that multiculturalism and privilege are separate, independent dimensions in respondents' thinking. Cross-tabulations show both polarization of views and ambivalence in attitudes to Anglo privilege, which are in substantial part resolved by consideration of the geography of privilege and linked multicultural values. KEYWORDS Australia • geography • multiculturalism • White (Anglo) privilege
Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2017
Views of country school teachers towards multicultural education and anti-racism policy directive... more Views of country school teachers towards multicultural education and anti-racism policy directives are examined against a background of a largely 'white' landscape but increasing numbers of language background other than English (LBOTE) immigrants. A 10 per cent response from a self-administered online survey of government primary and secondary classroom teachers in country New South Wales examines their attitudes to cultural diversity, goals of multicultural education, and anti-racist strategies. Though strongly supportive of attempts to combat racism, implementation in some schools lags behind intention. Whether on cultural diversity, multiculturalism or acknowledgement of racism, teacher attitudes are more tolerant than those in the wider communities the schools serve. But while among teachers and the wider community there is some level of intolerance and discrimination towards Aboriginal and LBOTE Australians, such attitudes do not vary significantly across country areas with different cultural diversity mixes, except for recognition of the needs of Aboriginal students among teachers.
Geographical Research, 2017
Most models of immigrant minority enclave formation in cities represent their situation as relati... more Most models of immigrant minority enclave formation in cities represent their situation as relatively transient elements in urban residential mosaics. As minority group members become both economically integrated and socially-culturally assimilated into the host society, so they move away from the enclaves where they initially concentrated. Such shifts are especially likely among the second and later generations of group members, who are more likely to overcome the disadvantages experienced by many of the original settlers with regard to human capital. This paper evaluates that model using data on the residential distributions of three generations of those claiming membership of one of nineteen different ancestral groups in Sydney in 2011, at four nested spatial scales, deploying a recently developed inferential method for evaluating the intensity of residential segregation. The findings are not consistent with the model: in general, members of the second and third generations in any ancestral group are as segregated as the first generation (that is, those born outside Australia) at both regional and neighbourhood scales.
Race Ethnicity and Education, 2015
How school teachers act to challenge racism in schools is a vital concern in an immigrant society... more How school teachers act to challenge racism in schools is a vital concern in an immigrant society like Australia. A 10% response from a self-administered online survey of government (public) primary and secondary school teachers across Sydney, Australia’s largest EthniCity, examines attitudes of classroom teachers towards cultural diversity, goals of multicultural education, and strategies to implement anti-racist strategies. Principal components analysis (PCA) of attitudes tease out the varied influence of opinion on multicultural education, diversity, and anti-racism. Classroom teachers are overwhelmingly supportive of cultural diversity, multicultural education and strategies to combat racism and discrimination, and these views hardly vary across the different geographic zones of the city, unlike attitudes within the general community. However, teacher knowledge about the implementation of multicultural policy does vary, and is positively associated with the extent of population diversity and socio-economic status (SES) of the communities surrounding the schools.
New South Wales Public Health Bulletin, 1992
State of Australian Cities National Conference, 2005
Australian Geographer, 2017
Recent decades have seen substantial growth across many developed-world countries of right-wing p... more Recent decades have seen substantial growth across many developed-world countries of right-wing populist political parties whose policies oppose immigration and multiculturalism as threats to the majority way of life there. These are exemplified in Australia by Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party, which was successful at elections there at the turn of the twenty-first century and again in 2016. Part of this party's rhetoric focuses on the geography of immigrant groups in Australia's cities, with claims that their members live in ghettos. Is that factually correct? Using data from the 2011 Australian census this paper analyses the distribution of Asians and Muslims (the two groups picked out by One Nation and its leader) at four spatial scales within the country's 11 largest urban areas. It finds no evidence at all of intensive residential segregation of Muslims, and although there are concentrations of Asians-notably in Sydney and Melbourne-most residents claiming Asian ancestry live in neighbourhoods and suburbs where they form a minority (in many cases a small minority) only of the local population.
PsycEXTRA Dataset
There is a perception that Indigenous Australians are uneasy with or distrustful of multicultural... more There is a perception that Indigenous Australians are uneasy with or distrustful of multiculturalism. Such unease has been attributed to the problematic positioning of Indigeneity within immigrant focused concepts of multiculturalism and its associated policies in a settler society. What are the attitudinal implications of this concern? There has been scant research on Indigenous Australians' attitudes to cultural diversity. Nationwide survey findings reveal that despite perceived concerns with multiculturalism, Indigenous people are not uneasy with cultural diversity as such. In fact, Indigenous respondents are largely supportive of diversity, which is one of the central tenets of multiculturalism. In most respects their attitudes on cultural diversity and views on old racisms are similar to those of non-Indigenous Australians. Indigenous Australians are, however, more likely than non-Indigenous Australians to recognise the problems of racism generally and Anglo-Celtic cultural privilege.
Local Population Studies, 2014
Racisms in the New World Order Realities of Cultures Colours and Identity, 2015
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 00323269508402357, Sep 21, 2007
... Representatives and Senate Elections of 1990 and 1993: A Comparative Analysis JAMESFORREST Ma... more ... Representatives and Senate Elections of 1990 and 1993: A Comparative Analysis JAMESFORREST Macquarie University ... O AusJPS 199S Page 2. JAMES FORREST 569 in terms of 'tactical voting' during the 1987 general election campaign (Galbraith and Rae 1989). ...
British Review of New Zealand Studies, 2004
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2010
Handbook of the Changing World Language Map
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 2003
New Zealand's population growth of 10 per cent over the decade 1991-2001 resulted substantially f... more New Zealand's population growth of 10 per cent over the decade 1991-2001 resulted substantially from an increasing number of those claiming Pacific Island and Asian ethnicity, and to a lesser extent of the New Zealand Maori. Using census data for a comparable set of small areas with average populations of just over 100, this paper examines the changing geography of the four main ethnic categories-New Zealand European, New Zealand Maori, Pacific Island Peoples, and Asians-across the country as a whole and in its major settlements, especially Auckland. There is little extreme segregation of the three minority groups, but most of the Europeans live in areas where there is little exposure to those of other ethnicities. Most of the changes in segregation reflect the growth of Auckland's Pacific Island and, especially, Asian populations.
Environment and Planning a, 2010
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 00049188608702903, Feb 25, 2007
ABSTRACT Completion of the Atlas of population and housing, 1981 census series (Australia. Divisi... more ABSTRACT Completion of the Atlas of population and housing, 1981 census series (Australia. Division of National Mapping et al.1983, 1984a‐f) marks the culmination of a decade of work in the urban social atlas field. But over that period there is evidence of increasing divergence of purpose, from initially twin objectives, theoretical and applied, to the avowedly applied focus of recent efforts. The future would appear to be seen by many practitioners in purely applied terms. Recent developments in expert systems and artificial intelligence, however, will require the reforging of links between conceptual thinking and technical advancement.
The Australian Quarterly, 1995