{"title":"Mobility justice: Tongan elders engaging in temporal trans-Tasman migration for caregiving duties","authors":"Ruth (Lute) Faleolo","doi":"10.1080/00049182.2023.2256588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2023.2256588","url":null,"abstract":"This is an account of the ways that Tongan elders who engage in temporal migration across the Tasman Sea, between Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand have helped to forge mobility justice in their collectives. Their engagement in grandparent duties within their collectives often drives their temporal trans-Tasman migration. Images, narratives, and observations of six Tongan elders’(aged between 60−75 years) trans-Tasman movements related to their familial roles, over a period of eight years (2014–2021), reveals the significance of caregiving for children/grandchildren – tauhi fanau – for many working Tongan families with limited access to affordable childcare in Australia. The cultural practice of shared tauhi fanau promotes collective mobility for many Tongan households. The cultural functions carried out by Tongan elders help to interconnect families, across diaspora contexts. This unique account considers the impact of COVID-19 on Tongan collective mobilities and the re-defining of responsibilities enacted by Tongan elders in their trans-Tasman collectives.","PeriodicalId":47337,"journal":{"name":"Australian Geographer","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135306444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Radford, George Tan, Heidi Hetz, Branka Krivokapic-Skoko, Arefa Hassani
{"title":"A whole-of-community approach: local community responses to refugee settlement–integration in rural Australia","authors":"David Radford, George Tan, Heidi Hetz, Branka Krivokapic-Skoko, Arefa Hassani","doi":"10.1080/00049182.2023.2251627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2023.2251627","url":null,"abstract":"Humanitarian migrants are moving to rural areas in Australia in increasing numbers, where it is often local communities who take responsibility for their settlement–integration. Current models acknowledge that settlement–integration is a two-way process between humanitarian migrants and the rural community but remain overly focused on the actions of humanitarian migrants while neglecting the conditions of rural communities. This article discusses the case study of a rural Australian town where humanitarian migrants, Hazaras from Afghanistan, have settled over the past decade. We draw on Jenny Phillimore’s ‘Five domains of opportunity structures’ model of settlement-integration – locality, discourse, relations, structure and initiatives and support – to explore how local government, the mayor and volunteer refugee/migrant support groups facilitate a welcoming community. The case study provides evidence for Phillimore’s ‘opportunity structures’ as effective conditions for positive humanitarian migrant settlement–integration in a rural context. Through the lens of Phillimore’s opportunity structures, we operationalise a Whole-of-Community concept in the context of rural humanitarian settlement–integration.","PeriodicalId":47337,"journal":{"name":"Australian Geographer","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136071926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How are practices of care sometimes not fair? The case of parenting and private car use","authors":"J. Kent","doi":"10.1080/00049182.2023.2246715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2023.2246715","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT How is it that the intention to care can produce and reproduce a practice that is quintessentially unjust? This conceptual piece uses the everyday transport practices of families to explore the paradox between individual practices of care and aspirations to just and care-full cities. In doing so, it encounters a fundamental barrier to the melding of care with notions of justice. While structurally and culturally, care and justice must fuse as aspirations, from the perspective of the individual in practice, care motivates actions that are anything but inclusive and equitable. Indeed, care in practice undermines aspirations to justice in a way that needs to be accounted for if utopian visions of more care-full and just cities can be realised. Tools and concepts from social practice theory are deployed to reveal how care melds with infrastructure and ‘ways of doing’ to entrench the mobile stratifications that both represent and perpetuate injustice.","PeriodicalId":47337,"journal":{"name":"Australian Geographer","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44717126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imagining multispecies mobility justice","authors":"Kaya Barry, S. Suliman","doi":"10.1080/00049182.2023.2245622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2023.2245622","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Throughout the Asia-Pacific, migratory shorebirds are being threatened by human encroachments into their coastal habitats. In this short visual essay, we unravel the entanglements that bind the Far Eastern Curlew with a range of mobilities in one of its key landing sites, Meanjin – Brisbane. These entanglements raise critical questions about how we humans conceptualise and pursue mobility justice. We suggest that paying attention to how mobilities intersect in more-than-human ways demands that our Western, anthropocentric narratives and framings of watery places, multispecies mobilities, and the rights to movement more broadly, must change. These considerations of mobility justice need to account for, and take heed of, the persisting existences with which ‘we’ cohabitate.","PeriodicalId":47337,"journal":{"name":"Australian Geographer","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49243733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mobility justice, capabilities, and medical migration: medical licensing pathways for overseas-trained doctors in Aotearoa New Zealand","authors":"Johanna Thomas‐Maude","doi":"10.1080/00049182.2023.2245620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2023.2245620","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The field of medicine is traditionally associated with opportunities for training and knowledge sharing through movement and travel. Nevertheless, the contemporary migration of doctors may have negative impacts on lower-income countries. Some scholars argue for active restrictions on South to North migration of medical doctors, while others consider such suggestions as an unjustified infringement on individual rights to migrate. This paper draws on mobility justice and the capabilities approach, to conceptualise the complex dynamics of international medical migration through the example of Aotearoa New Zealand. In this context, a ‘brain drain’ of New Zealand-trained medical doctors is partially mitigated by a ‘brain gain’, with more than 40% of the medical workforce having trained overseas. However, overseas-trained medical doctors follow pathways to licensing determined by the public health indicators of their countries of training. Despite an overall ‘brain gain’, doctors who trained in the Global South experience significantly greater barriers to registration than those who trained in Global North countries. Many are unable to work as doctors, resulting in a ‘brain waste’ of their knowledge, experience, and capabilities. This may relate to (post)colonial legacies and discourses of medical competencies that underscore the hegemony of the Global North, warranting further exploration.","PeriodicalId":47337,"journal":{"name":"Australian Geographer","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44913254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Sullivan, Duy Tran, Kim Spurway, Linda Briskman, John Leha, William Trewlynn, K. Soldatic
{"title":"‘This is our place, but we’re the outsiders’: the navigation of identity and spaces of belonging by Indigenous LGBTIQ + women in Australia","authors":"C. Sullivan, Duy Tran, Kim Spurway, Linda Briskman, John Leha, William Trewlynn, K. Soldatic","doi":"10.1080/00049182.2023.2251626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2023.2251626","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A secure sense of identity and belonging plays a crucial role in social and emotional wellbeing. While there has been research that investigates the exclusion of Indigenous people from a broad range of the workings of society in Australia, such as social spaces and institutions, there exists limited literature that specifically focuses on Indigenous LGBTIQ + women’s experiences. Building on the limited research on Indigenous LGBTIQ + individuals’ lived experiences, this article analyses Indigenous LGBTIQ + women’s navigation of their identity and sense of belonging using data generated from interviews with the target group. Participants’ experiences reveal a diverse range of coming out journeys which all culminated in a strong sense of pride in their identity and belonging with their close family members and LGBTIQ + community. Themes of exclusion were also evident, particularly with other family members, schools, and other social spaces.","PeriodicalId":47337,"journal":{"name":"Australian Geographer","volume":"54 1","pages":"347 - 364"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44804944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Gibson, G. R. Hancock, D. Verdon‐Kidd, V. Haverd
{"title":"Temporal stability of soil organic carbon in grazing lands of Eastern Australia","authors":"A. Gibson, G. R. Hancock, D. Verdon‐Kidd, V. Haverd","doi":"10.1080/00049182.2023.2251629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2023.2251629","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Sequestering soil organic carbon (SOC) has been identified as a critical tool to mitigate anthropogenic climate change. Therefore, the response of SOC to climate variability needs to be quantified to achieve carbon sequestration over decadal to centennial scales. This study assesses the temporal variability of SOC for a grazed catchment in Australia that has been exposed to periods of drought and flood over the last 100 years. The analysis utilises field-measured SOC data obtained 2006–2018, along with modelled SOC data derived from a linear regression model and BIOS2 model outputs (1908–2015). Catchment SOC did not vary significantly, with mean values of 3.40% (2006), 3.21% (2014) and 3.10% (2018), despite the catchment experiencing extreme drying and wetting events during the sampling period. This stability was further supported by the long-term modelling, which showed a mean SOC of 3.68% and coefficient of variance of 0.16%. SOC was believed to be buffered against short term fluctuations in climate that persist for less than the SOC turnover times (i.e., multi-decadal). This indicates that temporal changes in SOC reflects only long-term climate variability. Current SOC and sequestered SOC are therefore unlikely to become a carbon sink in the short-term due to climate variability.","PeriodicalId":47337,"journal":{"name":"Australian Geographer","volume":"54 1","pages":"387 - 404"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42693576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rainbow renters: differences in housing tenure and satisfaction between LGBTIQ and non-LGBTIQ Australians","authors":"R. Grant, Bruce Tranter, Nyree Pisanu","doi":"10.1080/00049182.2023.2251628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2023.2251628","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) people’s housing experiences are under-explored in Australia. Previous Australian and international research in social geography and housing studies suggests that this group experiences a range of barriers to secure and affordable housing, confirming the need for further insight in the Australian context. This article examines LGBTIQ housing tenure and satisfaction, drawing on data from two Australian surveys. Our analyses of nationally representative data from the Housing, Income and Labour Dynamics Australia (HILDA) survey, and state-specific data from The Tasmania Project, identify significant differences in housing tenure, and housing satisfaction between LGBTIQ and non-LGBTIQ Australians. We find LGBTIQ Australians are more likely than non-LGBTIQ to rent their homes and less satisfied with their housing overall. We also identify novel differences in housing patterns within LGBTIQ communities. The experiences and needs of LGBTIQ people must be considered for housing policy and services, as well as efforts to address housing stress and homelessness in Australian cities.","PeriodicalId":47337,"journal":{"name":"Australian Geographer","volume":"54 1","pages":"365 - 385"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45826713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wind-reworked fluvial deposits as an archaeological environment: the Agnes Banks Sand of the Quaternary Hawkesbury–Nepean sequence of southeast Australia","authors":"S.J. Gale, N.A. Wales","doi":"10.1080/00049182.2023.2250157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2023.2250157","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The deposits of Sydney’s rivers are thought to have experienced widespread aeolian modification during the Quaternary. The resultant sediments form archaeologically important landscapes upon which are found several of the oldest archaeological sites in the Sydney district. Unfortunately, little is known of the processes and products of aeolian reworking. The context of the archaeological discoveries is therefore enigmatic. This study focusses on the Agnes Banks Sand, a Cenozoic sand body that may represent the only sedimentary unit in the Sydney area that preserves reliable evidence of the action of aeolian processes on fluvial sediments. Our work confirms that the sands are indistinguishable from inland dune deposits worldwide, with the deposits reworked from alluvial sediments within and adjacent to the channel of the nearby Nepean River. The sands form east–west-aligned linear dunes, whilst the sediment body fines to the east, a pattern consistent with entrainment by westerly winds. Three other aeolian depositional bodies have been identified alongside the Hawkesbury–Nepean River. Together, these form an assemblage of source-bordering dunes that lies downwind of the river across the northern part of the Cumberland Basin. Deposition here began in Marine Isotope Stages 3–2 and continued into Marine Isotope Stage 1, a period corresponding with a general episode of dune activation across southeast Australia. Although it is widely believed that the Agnes Banks Sand was formed sometime between the Pliocene and the Middle Pleistocene, we present evidence that its deposition post-dates 65 ka and that the deposits are contemporaneous with the other fluvio-aeolian units in the catchment. The true importance of Agnes Banks, however, is as a type locality from which it has been possible to derive sedimentological and geomorphological signatures that may be applied to appraisals of the fluvio-aeolian record within (and perhaps beyond) the Sydney area.","PeriodicalId":47337,"journal":{"name":"Australian Geographer","volume":"50 1","pages":"277 - 301"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Bissell, Thomas Birtchnell, Michelle Duffy, Farida Fozdar, B. Iaquinto, David Radford, Lauren Rickards
{"title":"Region power for mobilities research","authors":"David Bissell, Thomas Birtchnell, Michelle Duffy, Farida Fozdar, B. Iaquinto, David Radford, Lauren Rickards","doi":"10.1080/00049182.2023.2245624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2023.2245624","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this Thinking Space essay, we explain why the COVID-19 pandemic makes mobilities research more important than ever. In a time when mobilities have been reconfigured so dramatically, perhaps even leading people to value mobility differently, we need concepts and theories that can help us to attend to and navigate this new situation. Our contention is that mobilities research must recentre the region. Building on earlier work in the mobilities paradigm, we suggest ways that regionality can be conceptualised, and argue that mobilities in our part of the world take distinctive manifestations that warrant our attention. Our essay concludes by pointing to new directions for mobilities research from our region.","PeriodicalId":47337,"journal":{"name":"Australian Geographer","volume":"54 1","pages":"251 - 275"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48561550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}