Abstract
The residential settlement of the second generation of the major European immigrant groups in Metropolitan Sydney in 1981 is compared with that of the first generation, and the occupational composition and mobility of the second generation is related to those of the first generation and the host society. This is the first large data set intergenerational analysis to have been conducted in Australia, and hypotheses as to the relationship between social and spatial distance, and between first and second generation segregation are tested. A theory of intergenerational convergence, and thus integration, is found to be applicable to the Australian urban situation, rather than labour market segmentation or structural pluralist theories.
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