Original scientific paper
The Changing Demographic Structure and Family Relationships among Migrants from Yugoslavia in Australia
Christabel Young
; Department of Demography, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra
Abstract
The author discusses the dramatical change in the age structure and other characteristics of the Yugoslav-born population after nearly 40 years of immigration to Australia. With time, ethnic Yugoslav families progress from having parents and children Yugoslav-born, to having parents Yugoslav-born and children mostly Australian-born. Yugoslavs have shown a rapid transition between the parent generation and the young adult generation (with respect to English language proficiency and age at leaving school), and a reduction between generations with respect to the some of the earlier disadvantages experienced by women. Although the Yugoslav-born population in Australia is aging, the emergence of these Australian-born children brings younger people to the ethnic group. Also of importance found out in this paper is the continuing intermarriage of Yugoslavs with other groups in Australia, leading to a mixing of the various communities. All of these changes have implications on relationships within the family and on the structure of the ethnic group.
Keywords
demographic structure; family relationships; immigrants; Australia; Yugoslavia
Hrčak ID:
127659
URI
Publication date:
31.5.1990.
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