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For mainland Chinese migrants in Australia, adapting to new home made worse by coronavirus, racism and isolation
Mainland Chinese immigrants in Australia have a harder time adjusting to their new environment than some of their East Asian counterparts, but any progress they have shown in closing the gap is potentially threatened by discrimination and pandemic-related racism, a new study has found.In the wide-ranging study by the Scanlon Foundation, focused on why mainland Chinese migrants flock to certain suburbs such as Box Hill in Melbourne and aimed at gaining insight into Australia’s broader Chinese…