A content analysis of a purposive sample of 857 articles from four Australian newspapers was conducted to examine the social categorisation of Chinese ethnic groups in Australian and nonAustralian contexts, as well as the possible social influence of those identified categories on inter-ethnic group relations. Results indicate that Chinese were primarily portrayed as “illegal immigrants”, repre...

Drawing on the role of teachers for peer ecologies, we investigated whether students favored ethnically homogenous over diverse relationships, depending classroom diversity and perceived teacher care. We specifically studied students' intra- interethnic relationships in classrooms with different ethnic compositions, accounting homogeneous subgroups forming basis ethnicity gender (i.e., ethnic-d...