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In this episode, Dr Loy Lising talks with Brendan Falvy about her forthcoming chapter:

Lising, L. (In press). Philippine Languages in Multilingual Sydney. In Benson, Chik & Moloney (Eds.) Multilingual Sydney. Routledge.

0:39 My research interests and study areas. Previous studies which led me to this paper.

3:00 The difficulties generating useful data for this paper and the problems using census data.

8:55 How the census could collect more useful languages data and capture the diversity more effectively, particularly with Filipino immigrants.

15:47 Why Filipino immigrants could interpret the same census questions differently. How political disposition and dialect play a role.

21:13 The global movement of Filipino immigrants and its effect on the linguistic presence of Filipinos in Sydney today.

https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/loy-lising