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Uniken
Fix this textTHE UNIVERSITY Of NEW SOUTH WALES
Fix this textNo. 324 (N 0.4 of 1992)
Fix this textPublished fortnightly by the News Service
Fix this textRegistered by Australia Post - Publication No. NBF 4388
Fix this text3 April 1992
Fix this textTurning young
Fix this textrefugees into
Fix this textsuccess stories
Fix this textDr Diane Barnes-Zulfacar,
Fix this textHead of the School of Social
Fix this textWork, is in the data-collecting
Fix this textstage of a three-year project
Fix this textaimed at discovering the factors
Fix this textthat lead to successful resettle-
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Fix this textrefugees in Australia.
Fix this textAm ARC grant has enabled her
Fix this textto recruit and train three tertiary
Fix this texteducated Vietnamese interviewers
Fix this textto record the experiences and views
Fix this textof male Vietnamese who were
Fix this textteenagers when they arrived in
Fix this textAustralia between 1980 and 1985.
Fix this textThese youths are now mostly in
Fix this texttheir mid to late 20s.
Fix this textDr Barnes-Zulfacar hopes the
Fix this textrange of subjects will be wide
Fix this textenough to include some who have
Fix this textbeen outstandingly successful and
Fix this textothers who might be involved in an
Fix this textunproductive or even antisocial
Fix this textlifestyle.
Fix this textFrom the data now assembled,
Fix this textthe young Vietnamese themselves
Fix this textcite English language instruction
Fix this textand social orientation courses as the
Fix this texttwo most important factors in
Fix this textpreparing them for resettlement.
Fix this text“Mastery of English opens the
Fix this textdoors to everything,” one said.
Fix this textFamiliarity with Australian cus-
Fix this texttoms and agencies is also
Fix this textimportant. One respondent,(now
Fix this textundertaking postgraduate studies)
Fix this textas a 12-year-old in Vietnam was
Fix this textextremely resourceful in finding
Fix this textfood for his younger siblings after
Fix this texthis parents were taken away by the
Fix this textauthorities. However, he was ini-
Fix this texttially at a complete loss as to how
Fix this textto fend for himself in Australia. On
Fix this textbeing discharged from his migrant
Fix this texthostel and with no family to turn to,
Fix this texthe had no alternative but to sneak
Fix this textback to the hostel at mealtimes.
Fix this textSeveral months elapsed before this
Fix this textyoungster’s plight came to the at-
Fix this texttention of the authorities.
Fix this textBut no Vietnamese can limit
Fix this texttheir activity to fending for them-
Fix this textselves. Their social support system
Fix this textdevolves entirely on the family
Fix this textwhose members are strictly bound
Fix this textto meet group obligations.
Fix this textIn Australia, refugees find them-
Fix this textselves with their obligations as
Fix this textonerous as ever but the family net-
Fix this textworks they were used to drawing
Fix this texton, reduced to fragments. The
Fix this textstruggle to contribute to their fami-
Fix this textly is often undertaken at enormous
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Fix this textSilence and inertia
Fix this textDr Bames-Zulfacar’s interest in
Fix this textadolescent refugees goes back to a
Fix this textvisit she made to Malaysia in 1983
Fix this textwhen she encountered teenage
Fix this textrefugees in camps and was shocked
Fix this textto find many of those with no fami-
Fix this textly support reduced to silence and
Fix this textinertia by loneliness and despair.
Fix this textShe subsequently wrote up their
Fix this textplight in a study of “unaccom-
Fix this textpanied minors” who had settled in
Fix this textNSW. Many of her recommenda-
Fix this texttions have been taken up by
Fix this textauthorities in Australia. For ex-
Fix this textample, Dr Bamardo’s Homes
Fix this textvolunteered to accept and care for
Fix this textthe most severely emotionally
Fix this textdamaged among young Viet-
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Fix this text“Bamardo’s have had varying
Fix this textdegrees of success,” Dr Bames-
Fix this textZulfacar said. 'Tm hoping to
Fix this textinclude some who have been
Fix this textthrough their program in the current
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Fix this textHer ARC grant is for three
Fix this textyears. Last year she designed the
Fix this textproject and set up contacts with the
Fix this textVietnamese community. Data-col-
Fix this textlecting will be completed by the
Fix this textend of this year and the study will
Fix this textbe written up next year.
Fix this textDr Bames-Zulfacar said it was
Fix this textamazing just how much difficulty
Fix this textrefugees can go through and still
Fix this textget on top of things. “So it really
Fix this textpays to prepare them as best we can.
Fix this textWe get a good return on the invest-
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Fix this textHome on the range
Fix this textUNSW’s School of Town Plan-
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Fix this textthe newest and fastest-growing
Fix this textcomponent of Sydney’s social
Fix this textlandscape exurbanites.
Fix this textExurbanites, according to Dr
Fix this textPeter Murphy, Senior Lecturer in
Fix this textTown Planning, are householders
Fix this text(usually business or professional
Fix this textpeople) who decide to push beyond
Fix this textsuburbia into rural areas and spend
Fix this textboth time and income on commut-
Fix this texting, in order to enjoy a gentrified
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Fix this textWhile the “I vant to be alone on
Fix this textgreen pastures” stance of broad-
Fix this textcasters John Laws and Phillip
Fix this textAdams gets wide press coverage,
Fix this textothers less well known are set-
Fix this texttling down on the rural rim, far
Fix this textremoved from the noise, con-
Fix this textgestion, pollution, microclimate,
Fix this textsocial heterogeneity and crime of
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Fix this textThey communicate with then-
Fix this textclients via phone, fax and modem,
Fix this textsometimes maintaining a pied a
Fix this textterre for their brief incursions to the
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Fix this textAs professionals with flexible
Fix this textworking hours, an academic from
Fix this textUNSW and his wife can run an
Fix this textoffice from their home at Kangaroo
Fix this textValley; a software manufacturer
Fix this textcan operate from Buckertty, South
Fix this textof Cessnock, lodging his two
Fix this textemployees in a cottage for the oc-
Fix this textcasional sojourns they are required
Fix this textto make; a public relations consult-
Fix this textant has his office at Dungog and
Fix this textkeeps a flat in Kings Cross.
Fix this textCommuting for such people
Fix this textmay actually be a form of leisure, a
Fix this textbreak from work in the home office,
Fix this textand an opportunity to view pleasant
Fix this textscenery on the way to enjoying big-
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Fix this text“But what we know of
Fix this textAustralian exurbia is only anecdo-
Fix this texttal,” says Dr Murphy. “Most
Fix this textresearch on the subject comes from
Fix this textthe US.”
Fix this textAs Americans see it, the boun-
Fix this textdaries of exurbia are defined by the
Fix this textlocations people can conveniently
Fix this textreach in their cars. One spouse may
Fix this textwork at an industrial park four exits
Fix this textdown the freeway, the other at an
Fix this textoffice complex three exits up the
Fix this textfreeway. The children travel by bus
Fix this textto their local school or drive to the
Fix this textlocal campus of the state university.
Fix this textThe family shops at several dif-
Fix this textferent malls along several different
Fix this textfreeways. Everything they need to
Fix this textconsume can be found along the
Fix this texthighways. Occasionally they go
Fix this textdowntown, but never stay long. In
Fix this texteffect the home becomes the hub
Fix this textof a city that is continually
Fix this textbeing “created” by the tracks, both
Fix this textphysical and communicatory, exur-
Fix this textbanites make across the landscape.
Fix this textUnlike suburbanites they do not
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Fix this textTheir tracks follow the least con-
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Fix this textGrant to study exurban
Fix this textdevelopment
Fix this textDr Muiphy, and Associate
Fix this textProfessor Ian Burnley, of the
Fix this textSchool of Geography have received
Fix this textan ARC grant to look at Sydney’s
Fix this textexurban development. “We want to
Fix this textsee what it has in common with the
Fix this textUS situation.”
Fix this textAlready he knows of two dif-
Fix this textferences. In the US, income
Fix this textincreases steadily upward from a
Fix this textlow base in the inner cities through
Fix this textsuburbia and out to exurbia. TTie
Fix this textincome curve in Australia is instead
Fix this textv-shaped. It starts high in the inner
Fix this textcities, slopes down in suburbia and
Fix this textrises again in exurbia. Another big
Fix this textdifference is that the edges of
Fix this textAmerican cities are much richer
Fix this textwith jobs than Australian cities.
Fix this textThis provides much impetus forex-
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Fix this textBut in exurbia there is also a
Fix this textwelfare group sole parents and
Fix this textcounter culture practitioners look-
Fix this texting for cheap rents.
Fix this textThe first stage of Dr Murphy’s
Fix this textinquiry was to conduct a survey of
Fix this text1,000 households, selected from
Fix this textelectoral rolls, who moved to metro
Fix this textfringe and exurban environments.
Fix this textRespondents were asked to explain
Fix this textwhy they left one area to migrate to
Fix this textanother, how the move altered their
Fix this textjourney to work patterns and
Fix this textdemographic questions that in-
Fix this textcluded their occupational status.
Fix this textThe data is now being analysed.
Fix this textDr Murphy also intends to conduct
Fix this text“quality” interviews with repre-
Fix this textsentative exurbanites. The second
Fix this textstage of the research involves
Fix this textanalysing census and other secon-
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Fix this textThe expansion of exurbia has
Fix this textimportant policy implications, run-
Fix this textning counter as it does to current
Fix this textplans for increasing urban density
Fix this textand containing the urban sprawl.
Fix this textBut distinguishing between ex-
Fix this texturban and rural is not easy, says Dr
Fix this textMurphy. Campbelltown was once
Fix this textexurban. Now it is part of the urban
Fix this textfringe with a high population den-
Fix this textsity of low income, first-home
Fix this textbuyers. Kangaroo Valley and Buck-
Fix this textertty currently represent the outer
Fix this textlimits of exurbia with Bowral form-
Fix this texting another node on the tablelands.
Fix this textHowever, even in America, so-
Fix this textcial observers (who nickname
Fix this textexurbanites “slurbs”) are forecast-
Fix this texting the onset of boredom with the
Fix this textbush and with isolation, and the
Fix this textslow trickle back to the cities of the
Fix this textrural “push” who may well become
Fix this textkey campaigners for the restoration
Fix this textof cities dying in their own waste.
Fix this textUNSW Open Day—a lifetime of opportunities in one day—Saturday 5 September
Fix this textDr Diane Barnes-Zulfacar... has
Fix this textencountered teenage refugees
Fix this textin camps
Fix this textA typical exurban landscape-Burralong Valley, near Cessnock,
Fix this textPhoto courtesy: School of Town Planning
Fix this textDr Peter Murphy
Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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