Circles of Sustainability, Liverpool – Settling Strangers
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CIRCLES OF SUSTAINABILITY, LIVERPOOL Settling Strangers; Supporting Disability Needs Circles of Sustainability is an approach that supports cities, communities and organizations seeking to understand and act upon basic issues relevant to sustaining positive and vibrant social life. The approach suggests that social life should be understood holistically. This is done by considering sustainability across an intersecting four-domain model: economics, ecology, politics, and culture. The approach is part of the larger methodology called ‘Circles of Social Life’. 2 www.circlesofsustainability.org Circles of Social Life, Liverpool Settling Strangers; Supporting Disability Needs Paul James, Liam Magee, Jakki Mann, Shuman Partoredjo and Karen Soldatic LIVERPOOL 2018 REPORT; Settling Strangers; Supporting Disability Needs 3 Paul James, Liam Magee, Jakki Mann, Shuman Partoredjo and Karen Soldatic Circles of Social Life, Liverpool; Settling Strangers; Supporting Disability Needs. Copyright © Paul James, Liam Magee, Jakki Mann, Shuman Partoredjo and Karen Soldatic Please cite this report as: James, P., Magee, L., Mann, J., Partoredjo, S., Soldatic, K., 2018. Circles of Social Life, Liverpool: Settling Strangers; Supporting Disability Needs. Liverpool, N.S.W.: Western Sydney Press. ISBN 978-0-646-98703-3 First published in 2018 by Western Sydney Press 108 Moore Street, Liverpool, NSW, 2170, Australia Western Sydney Press is an imprint of Western Sydney MRC Ltd. Cover Illustration and setting by Rachel Haywood. Net proceeds from hardcopy sales of Circles of Social Life, Liverpool reprints, will go towards the charitable purposes and programs of Western Sydney MRC in settling new migrants and supporting disability needs. 4 www.circlesofsustainability.org An Assessment of the Sustainability of Liverpool, 2017 Figure 1. An Assessment of the Sustainability of Liverpool, 2017 Assessment Legend LIVERPOOL 2018 REPORT; Settling Strangers; Supporting Disability Needs 5 Contents 1. Executive Summary 10 2. Purpose and Methods 11 Circles of Social Life.................................................................................................................. 12 ABS Census Data...................................................................................................................... 12 Categories of Arrivals: ‘Migrants’ and ‘Refugees’..................................................................... 13 3. Background 13 Highlights of Liverpool’s History.............................................................................................. 13 The Original Custodians and European Settlement................................................................ 13 Engagement Across Two World Wars....................................................................................... 14 As a Focus of Post-War Migration............................................................................................. 14 Named as Part of the Western Sydney Priority Growth Area.................................................... 14 Highlights of Liverpool Today.................................................................................................. 14 Demography............................................................................................................................ 16 Census Trends and Insights...................................................................................................... 18 4. Liverpool Circles of Social Life Profile: Overview and Summary 19 Assessing Liverpool’s Sustainability......................................................................................... 19 Economic Profile Summary...................................................................................................... 21 Ecological Profile Summary..................................................................................................... 23 Political Profile Summary ............................................................................................... 23 Cultural Profile Summary........................................................................................................ 30 How is Liverpool Performing?.................................................................................................. 31 5. Critical Issues for Settlement and Disability 33 Critical Issues for Migrants and Refugee Settlement ............................................................... 33 Background................................................................................................................ 33 Elaborating Critical Settlement Issues ............................................................... 39 Critical Issues for Disability and the Settlement Process........................................................... 42 Background ................................................................................................ 42 Elaborating Critical Disability Issues........................................................................ 44 Statistical Intersections: New Arrivals with Disability.............................................. 46 Vignette: Mahmod’s Experience.............................................................................................. 47 Vignette: Zara’s Experience...................................................................................................... 48 Critical Themes ........................................................................................................................ 49 Transport, Technology and Information.................................................................. 49 Stigma and the Specificity of Disability.................................................................. 50 Psychological Well-being ............................................................................... 51 Service and the Support Systems for Disability Resettlement................................ 52 Employment, Training and Welfare Dependency................................................... 53 6 www.circlesofsustainability.org 6. Recommendations for Action in Liverpool 55 7. References 57 Appendix 1: Key Terms and Definitions 58 Appendix 2: Research Methodology: Circles of Social Life 58 Appendix 3: Interview Schedule 62 Appendix 4: Detailed Analysis of ABS 2016 Census Statistics on Settlement and Disability 64 Appendix 5: Detailed Analysis from DIBP Settlement Reporting Facility 71 Appendix 6: Liverpool Urban Profile 73 The level of Assessment Process.................................................................................................................. 75 Definitions for the Purposes of this Questionnaire...................................................................................... 76 The Scale for Critical Judgement................................................................................................................. 76 The Issues in Contention.............................................................................................................................. 77 Ecology 78 Economics 87 Politics 96 Culture 105 Appendix 7: Participants 113 References 114 Western Sydney MRC, located in the heart of the Liverpool CBD, where within a 350-metre radius of the Courthouse are the main commercial, administrative, legal, law enforcement, social, educational and health facilities and services also located. LIVERPOOL 2018 REPORT; Settling Strangers; Supporting Disability Needs 7 List of Contributors Professor Paul James is Professor of Globalization and Cultural Diversity in the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia. He was Director of the UN Global Compact Cities Programme from 2007 to 2014. He has authored many books, including Urban Sustainability in Theory and Practice: Circles of Sustainability (2015). Dr Liam Magee is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia. He is author of Interwoven cities (2016) and Towards a Semantic Web: Connecting Knowledge in Academic Research (with Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis, 2010) Dr Karen Soldatic is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow (2016–2019) at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. She has authored many publications regarding disability and its various intersections with identity, gender, the Global South, colonialism, global politics, and government policy. Her most recent book is Disability and Rurality: Identity, Gender and Belonging (2017). Ms Jakki Mann is the Manager of the Circles of Sustainability Strategic Initiative, at the Institute for Culture and Society. The Initiative guides engaged and collaborative practice in making our cities, locales and organisations more sustainable, resilient, adaptable and liveable. Through the Institute’s relationship with the City of Berlin, she works with cities to promote case studies of urban sustainability initiatives around the world. Mr Shuman Partoredjo is Senior Manager, Business and Strategic Development, at the Western Sydney Migrant Resource Centre. He has worked with NGOs over many years in leadership, management, business development, and technical roles across the community development and international aid and development sectors. Cognisant of the value that partnerships bring, he (together with colleagues at the Western Sydney MRC) forged a community-academia collaboration culminating in this present study, Circles of Social Life, Liverpool; Settling Strangers; Supporting Disability Needs