Changing Disability Status of Immigrants in Australia - Three Cases
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Keywords
Australia, immigrants, disability statistics
Abstract
This paper examines the changing disability status over five years of those born overseas who have lived in Australia for various periods of time. Sourcing data from the 2006 and 2011 censuses it explores in-depth three distinctive immigrant groups: recent immigrants arriving between 2002-2006; Chinese students coming to Australia in the late 1980s; and Vietnamese refugees settling in Australia in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The analysis shows that age is the most important factor influencing the trajectories of disability profiles of immigrants, just like their local counterparties.
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Harding, S. (2004). Mortality of migrants from the Caribbean to England and Wales: effect of duration of residence. International journal of epidemiology, 33(2), 382-386.
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Museum Victoria Australia. (2014). History of immigration from China. Retrieved from https://museumvictoria.com.au/origins/history.aspx?pid=9.
Mutchler, J. E., Prakash, A., & Burr, J. A. (2007). The demography of disability and the effects of immigrant history: Older Asians in the United States. Demography, 44(2), 251-263.
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Author Biography
Qingsheng Zhou, The University of Sydney
Senior Research Fellow
National Centre for Classification in Health (NCCH)
Faculty of Health Sciences