Some family-based immigrants may be highly educated or skilled, but the vast majority of admissions are made without regard for those criteria. The immigrant population reflects the system's lack of emphasis on skill. Nearly 31 percent of foreign-born residents over the age of 25 are without a high school diploma, compared to just 10 percent of native-born citizens. Immigrants trail natives in rates of college attendance, associate's degrees, and bachelor's degrees, but earn advanced degrees at a slightly higher rate (10.9 percent, compared to 10.4 percent for natives). Illegal immigrants are the least-educated group, with nearly 75 percent having at most a high school education.
As well as this large family homes are in short supply in Canning town. Canning Town has a high percentage of minority ethnic groups who were born outside of the UK and for whom poor English language skills can be a barrier to employment and achievement. However in Canning Town itself the White population make up 61% of the people there with Asian or Asian British account for just 6.4% whilst Black or Black British are 26.9% with other races accounting for 5.7%. Compare this to the Millwall (including Canary Wharf) the amount of White people is of a similar level – 66.6%. However the Asian or Asian British population is nearly 3 times bigger with 18.4% of all people in that area falling into that category.
Thirdly, indigenous political organisation will be examined; and finally how these two systems allowed for effective functioning of indigenous societies will be explored. As a result, it will be proven, that traditional Aboriginal societies had high functioning and effective legal and political systems in place; and arguments denying
While 58% of families below the UK poverty line contained at least one working parent, benefits available still do not bring them above the 60% median household income. [4,7] Along with income inequality other inequalities such as: ethnicity, housing and the neighborhood in which the child lives; all contribute to poverty. People from ethnic minority groups in Britain are significantly more likely to be living in poverty. Around a third of all children are living in poverty; but disadvantage is deeper among children in ethnic minority groups as a whole. Homelessness; poor accommodation such as overcrowding, poor state of repair blights childhood.
Sociology is playing an important role in the alarming health disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Although statistics are slowly improving, currently Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people endure much poorer health outcomes than non-Indigenous Australians. For the 2005–2007 period, life expectancy at birth was estimated to be 67 years for Indigenous males and 73 years for Indigenous females, representing gaps of 11.5 and 9.7 years, respectively, compared with all Australians. In 2008, almost one-third of young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (aged 16–24 years) had high or very high levels of psychological distress. Indigenous young people died at a rate 2.5 times as high as that for non-Indigenous young people Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged 0–14 years died at more than twice the rate of non-Indigenous children.
Although the stated aim of the "resocialisation" programme was to improve the integration of Aboriginal people into modern society, a study conducted in Melbourne and cited in the official report found that there was no notable improvement in the social position of "removed" Aborigines as compared to "non-removed", particularly in the areas of employment and post-secondary education. Most notably, the study indicated that removed Aboriginal people were actually less likely to have completed a secondary education, three times as likely to have acquired a police record and were twice as likely to use illegal drugs. The only notable advantage "removed" Aboriginal people possessed was a higher average income, which the report noted was most likely due to the increased urbanisation of removed individuals, and hence greater access to welfare payments than for Aboriginal people living in tribal communities. The removal of the children show hardly any effect today, and shouldn't have
It is a blight on Australia’s social conscience that Indigenous Australians are disadvantaged in several social fronts. This essay will examine the social disadvantage of Indigenous Australians in the area of employment. In comparison with their non-indigenous counterparts Indigenous Australians are extremely underrepresented in the work force. This essay will examine the historical roots of Indigenous dispossession, discrimination and will feature statistical data that relays the high unemployment rate experienced by Indigenous Australians. Historically Institutional racism plays a major role in hindering the progress of Indigenous people.
(Homelessness in Australia, Factsheet: General Overview) (2011). Homelessness remains a particular problem among Australia's Indigenous people, who are over represented in their use of homeless services in all states and territories (Which Way Home? 2008: 20). In 2008 the Rudd Government set itself an ambitious target to ‘halve homelessness by 2020 and offer supported accommodation to all rough sleepers who need it’. (The Road Home 2008) It agreed to provide $6.1 Billion over 5 years from 2008-2009 on measures including social housing, assistance to people in the private rental market, support and accommodation for people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and assistance with home purchasing.
* Tertiary Homelessness- those who do not have secure tenure and maybe staying in boarding houses without private facilities. This definition was used in the 1996 census in an enumeration strategy which aimed to help target Australia’s homeless population. This was the first census to address this issue so there are no other statistics before this time however Crane,P (1996) suggests that homelessness was a more widespread problem in the 1980s. There are three main sociological theories which have been developed that provide some insight into homelessness. These include functionalism sociology which suggests that social inequality is a result of natural inequality and differences between people.
The Udall study also concluded that by 2003, of the uninsured figure of 5.1 million, 3.6 were born in the United States, the remaining 1.3 are immigrants making the United States born uninsured constitute the larger proportion of uninsured persons in the country. It should also be noted that of this 1.3 million immigrants, there is no differentiation between legal immigrants and illegal immigrants. Therefore, further reduction the percentage of illegal immigrants presenting a drain on the economy via uncompensated health