Opportunities for social and economic mobility have long been considered a key driver of
migration, with migrants seeking upward mobility, if not for their own generation, then for …

In this paper, I report on preliminary findings arising from a more extensive doctoral project
on Australia's regional youth exodus. One aim of this project is to stress the political moment …

The phenomenon of youth out-migration from rural areas has attracted renewed
governmental attention in the context of recent rural economic adjustment and decline …

While population forecasters place considerable emphasis on the selection of appropriate
migration assumptions, surprisingly little attention has been given to the effects on projection …

In recent times there has been a population turnaround in the island state of Tasmania
sparked by an increase in in-migration of mainland urban dwellers. This paper argues that …

The quest for a better way of life is associated with the recent reversal of the historic trend of
net interstate migration losses for Tasmania. In this paper, we examine data collected in …

Growing awareness of the issue of population ageing is not necessarily correlated with
growing understanding of the phenomenon. A recent rise in Australia's birth rate, for …

This paper outlines and empirically illustrates the argument that the point at which
population growth is officially recognised as ending (ie when zero growth or depopulation …

The state of Tasmania, the smallest in the Commonwealth of Australia, has recently
reformed its law relating to relationships by amending over 100 pieces of legislation to …

Lifestyle migration, or the middle-class quest to find a better way of life by moving to new
places, is often examined through sociological lenses of class, race, gender and other …