James Jupp

{{Short description|British-Australian political scientist and author (1932–2022)}}

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| birth_place = Croydon, Surrey, England

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| death_place = Canberra, Australia

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| alma_mater = London School of Economics

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James Jupp AM (23 August 1932 – 11 April 2022) was a British-Australian political scientist and author. He was Director of the Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University and an adjunct professor of the RMIT University in Melbourne.[http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/on-the-trail-of-our-true-believers-in-the-encyclopedia-of-religion-in-australia/story-e6frg8nf-1225791901854 On the trail of our true believers in The Encyclopedia of Religion in Australia]{{Cite news|title=Like England with sunshine|last=Pearson|first=Christopher|date=19 June 2004|work=The Weekend Australian|publisher=News Corp|page=B10}} He was an Australian citizen and resident of Canberra.

Early life and career

James Jupp was born in Croydon, England, and was educated at the London School of Economics between 1951 and 1956. He held teaching posts in Political Science at the University of Melbourne, where with Peter Wertheim he founded the journal Dissent in 1961,{{Cite journal |last=Jupp |first=James |date=Autumn–Summer 2000 |title=Dissent: then and now |journal=Dissent |issue=2 |pages=27–30 |issn=1443-2102}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Academy Fellow – Dr James Jupp AM, FASSA |url=https://socialsciences.org.au/academy-fellow/?sId=0032v000033l9S1AAI |access-date=2023-11-25 |website=Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia |language=en-AU}}

Jupp was a member of the Advisory Council on Multicultural Affairs, 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 and chairman of the Review of Migrant and Multicultural Programmes and Services, which presented its report Don't Settle for Less, to the Minister for Immigration in August, 1986.

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".[https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1056026 Citation at It's an Honour.]

In 2010 Jupp attracted considerable criticism over controversial comments he made to the effect that ANZAC Day was becoming less relevant in Australian culture.{{Cite news|title=Fury over slight to Anzac Day|date=21 April 2010|work=The Daily Telegraph|page=2}}

Jupp's opinion as an Australian immigration expert continues to be sought (in 2016 he was referred to as "one of Australia's eminent scholars on immigration"{{Cite news|title=Lowy urges control of immigration|last1=CONDON|first1=TURI|date=29 July 2016|work=The Australian|last2=OVERINGTON|first2=CAROLINE|page=1}}).{{Cite news|title=Far right a growing threat in Australia|last=Olding|first=Rachel|date=17 July 2015|work=The Age|page=1}}{{Cite news|title=MUSLIM IMMIGRATION: THE BIG SLOWDOWN|last=OVERINGTON|first=CAROLINE|date=29 July 2016|work=The Australian|page=13}}{{Cite news|title=Australia is on the cusp of a crisis|last=Hartcher|first=Peter|date=24 September 2016|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|page=30}}

Personal life and death

Jupp married political scientist Marian Sawer in 1978, with whom he had one daughter.{{Cite news|url=https://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0518b.htm|title=Sawer, Marian|work=The Encyclopedia of Women & Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia|publisher=National Foundation for Australian Women|first=Sharon M.|last=Harrison|access-date=27 April 2020}}

Jupp died in Canberra on 11 April 2022, at the age of 89.

Publications

Jupp published widely on immigration and multicultural affairs and 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.

(ed.) The Encyclopedia of Religion in Australia, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-521-86407-7}}
The English in Australia. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2004.{{Cite news|title=Forever England under a southern sky|last=Syson|first=Ian|date=5 June 2004|work=The Age|publisher=Fairfax Media|page=4}}
From White Australia to Woomera. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
(ed.) The Australian People. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
"Ethnic and Immigration Aspects", in Howard's Agenda, Marian Simms and John Warhurst (eds), St Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 2000.
"Immigrant Society", in The Australian Legend and its Discontents, Richard Nile (ed.), St Lucias, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 2000.
"The ALP and the ethnic communities", In The Machine: Labor confronts the future, John Warhurst and Andrew Parkin (eds), Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2000.
Immigration 2nd ed., Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Understanding Australian Multiculturalism, Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1996.
Exile or Refuge? The Settlement of Refugee, Humanitarian and Displaced Immigrants, Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1994.
(with Maria Kabala) The Politics of Australian Immigration, Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1993.
(ed. with Gary P. Freeman) Nations of Immigrants: Australia, The United States, and International Migration, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Immigration, 1991.
The Challenge of Diversity: Policy Options for a Multicultural Australia, Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1989.
Ethnic Politics in Australia, Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1984.
Party Politics : Australia 1966-81, Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1982.
The Radical Left in Britain, 1931-1941, London: Frank Cass, 1982.
Sri Lanka: Third World Democracy, London: Frank Cass and Company, Limited, 1978.
Arrivals and Departures, Melbourne: Cheshire-Lansdowne, 1966.
Australian Party Politics, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1964.

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20030207152909/http://cims.anu.edu.au/jupp.html Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110219070742/http://www.assa.edu.au/fellows/profile.php?id=163 Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia]

Category:1932 births

Category:2022 deaths

Category:Academics of the University of York

Category:Academic staff of the Australian National University

Category:Members of the Order of Australia

Category:Alumni of the London School of Economics

Category:Academic staff of RMIT University

Category:Australian political scientists

Category:Academic staff of the University of Waterloo

Category:Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia

Category:British emigrants to Australia

Category:Historians of Sri Lanka