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Andrew Jakubowicz has been Professor of Sociology at the University of Technology Sydney. He has an Honours degree in Government from Sydney University and a PhD from UNSW. Since the early 1970s he has been involved in action research and race relations, and has been centrally involved in the development of materialist theories of cultural diversity. He has taught at universities in the USA, Europe and Asia, and was the foundation director of the Centre for Multicultural Studies at the University of Wollongong. He is the author of numerous non-fiction works relating to migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism. [Source: Sydney Jewish Writers' Festival wepage at http://www.sjwf.org.au/the_writer.html]