ICS Seminar Series
- Event Name
- ICS Seminar Series
- Date
- 29 October 2015
- Time
- 11:30 am - 01:00 pm
- Location
- Parramatta Campus
Address (Room): EB.3.17
- Description
Gentrification is transforming the class and ethnic profile of urban communities across the world, and changing how people deal with social and cultural difference. This paper looks at some of the social consequences of gentrification in Sydney, Australia, focusing on local schools. It argues that in this urban Australian context, the influx of middle-class Anglo-Australians into traditionally working-class, migrant-dominated areas is significantly changing how people relate to each other within local schools, often fragmenting and dividing school communities. These shifts are intensified by the public policy of school choice, which has enabled some parents to...(see website for full)
Speakers: Chris Ho, Rose Butler and Eve Vincent
Web page: http://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/seminars/ics_seminar_series
- Contact
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Name: Christy Nguy
Phone: 9685 9523
School / Department: Institute for Culture and Society
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