Australia: Ethnic hotspots: why non-English-speaking migrants head for our cities

[Francis Hult]

The Australian

 

Ethnic hotspots: why non-English-speaking migrants head for our cities

 

Many of the 190,000 or so migrants who arrive in Australia each year are English-speaking. These include large intakes from Britain, New Zealand, South Africa and India.

 

As a consequence, there are relatively few parts of the Australian continent that have large non-English-speaking communities, but they do exist and mostly in Sydney and, to a lesser degree, Melbourne. 

 

More than a quarter of the population of both of our largest cities have more than one-quarter of their population born overseas, but there is a distinction. For whatever reason, non-English speaking migrants are more apt to cluster in Sydney than in Melbourne. 

 

Perhaps it's something to do with Sydney's terrain -- hilly and chopped up by the harbour and rivers -- that force the foreign-born to huddle. 

 

Full story:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24214721-25658,00.html

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