James Jupp
Dr James Jupp is currently Director of the Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. He was General Editor of the Bicentennial Encyclopedia of the Australian People from 1984 until its publication as The Australian People in September, 1988 and of the second edition published for the Centenary of Federation in 2001.
Dr Jupp was born in Croydon, England in 1932 and is an Australian citizen and resident of Canberra. He was educated at the London School of Economics between 1951 and 1956. He has held teaching posts in Political Science at the University of Melbourne, the University of York (England), the University of Waterloo (Canada) and the University of Canberra. His Doctorate of Philosophy, on the political development of Sri Lanka, was granted by the University of London in 1975 and published as Sri Lanka:Third World Democracy in 1978. In 1989 he was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and was its Executive Director from 1992 until 1995. He is an Adjunct Professor of the RMIT University in Melbourne. He was awarded membership of the Order of Australia (AM) on Australia Day 2004 for services to immigration and multicultural studies.
Dr Jupp was a member of the Advisory Council on Multicultural Affairs. He was chairman of the Review of Migrant and Multicultural Programs and Services, which presented its report Don't Settle for Less, to the Minister for Immigration in August, 1986. He was formerly chairman of the ACT Multicultural Advisory Council and of the ACT Reference Group of the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research. He was a member of the Planning and Steering Committees for the Global Cultural Diversity conference held in Sydney in April 1995.
Dr Jupp has published widely on immigration and multicultural affairs
and has acted as a consultant for the Office of Multicultural Affairs,
the Department of Immigration and other public agencies. His publications
include Arrivals and Departures (1966), Ethnic Politics in Australia(1984),
The Challenge of Diversity (1989), lmmigration (1991), Nations
of Immigrants (1992), The Politics of Australian Immigration (1993),Exile
or Refuge? (1994) and Understanding Australian Multiculturalism
(1996). The second edition of Immigration was published by
Oxford University Press in 1998. His study of recent immigration policy,
From White Australia to Woomera was published in 2002
and his The English in Australia in 2004, both by Cambridge University
Press.
On Australia Day 2004 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for "service to the development of public policy in relation to immigration and multiculturalism, to education, and to the recording of Australian history".
Dr Jupp's recent publications include the edited collection Social Cohesion in Australia, Cambridge University Press, 2007. He is currently editing the encyclopedia of Australians religions for Cambridge University Press and is involved in a comparative volume on Australian and United States immigration policy with Professor Gary Freeman of the University of Texas.
March 2008
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