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When home is a caravan park

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2016

Denise Hogarth,
Judi Geggie and
Gus Eddy
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Abstract

It is only since 1986 that relocatable dwellings in caravan parks have been recognised as a category of permanent residence for census purposes. This fact highlights the apparent invisibility of a small but significant proportion of the Australian population. Recent literature has implicated high differentiation of the population, urban sprawl, and high rates of internal (particularly intra-urban) migration in the transmission of disadvantage. In this article, staff of the National Dissemination Program of the Hunter Caravan Project apply that analysis to their own experience of caravan park residency issues. Some very practical suggestions are made for addressing some of those issues as they apply to children.

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Research Article
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Children Australia , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , 1994, pp. 4 - 8
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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