Assisted Migration Case Study

WWII had a big impact on the social changes in Australia before and after the war. One of the reasons it had such an impact on Australia was due to the immigration policy, which was made to increase Australia’s population. The immigration policy is a policy on legal migrants. Legal migrants who come to Australia under the migration act are non – Australians who come to the country for work or other reasons without permission or people who overstay their visas. This enforces that those who come in the country without permission may be subject to mandatory immigration detention and may be deported from the country at any time, unless been given permission to stay in Australia. This policy has contributed to the multicultural society of Australia today. To this day, there in an estimated 50 000 people who have overstayed their visas, most of these people come from British nations. Those touching base by boat or different means without official classification as refugees are no longer granted permission outcast status on landing. For example, those from an Asian background are becoming a more familiar part of Australia’s society today. Overseas migrant entries have assumed a vital part in changing the face of Australia. The current variety of migrants born in Australia include areas such as The United Kingdom, New Zealand, Italy, Vietnam, China, Greece, Germany, Philippines and India. Since the change in immigration policy in the late 1960s to one of non-discrimination on race or ethnic background, there has been a significant change in the overseas sources of migrants, with settlers arriving from more diverse regions of the world. To this day, Australia’s overseas born population consists of people who practise over 140 recognized ethnic groups, people who fluently speak over 90 different languages and people who believe in over 80 different religions. This expanding ethnic and social diversity has changed the way Australians view both themselves and other societies of the world. It has

This was good for both countries, as Britain was struggling with the repatriation of many of its soldiers, and unemployment was at record highs in that country, and Australia desperately needed its population to rise to help develop a new nation. This incentive program was ultimately very successful, with over 300 000 (Bereson, 2000) British nationals emigrating to Australia, bringing skills, labour force and population growth to drive the economy forward. One component of this immigration program was that offered involved land settlements to Allied ex-servicemen, and 17 000 ex-soldiers took this opportunity. This led to greater farm and industry production, which fed the growth of a young Australia.

During the years from 1914 - 1918 Australia was at constant battle all over the world fighting for the british. With battles deaths always follow. So many people say, “what did we ever gain from WW1 we lost so many people as a country”. Although we lost almost 60,000 men and 150,000 wounded or taken prisoner. After the war the British Government offered ex-servicemen free transportation to some of the colonies, 17,000 migrants arrived in Australia between 1919 and 1922. Community organisations paid for migrants to come over to Australia. Small numbers also arrived independently. It was also said that up to 300,000 men came over from britain post war to live. The British government gave an incentive to migrate over because so many people

With the already little population of 5 million Australian people and the loss of 300,000 men, this should have been a dark time, but to make up on that loss Australia received 300,000 migrants. These Migrants came from Britain. As there was a large amount of unemployment the British government encouraged the people of britain to migrate to Australia. Also the

For many years Asian Migrants were restricted from entering Australia and found it difficult to migrate due to discriminatory political policies. The main policies were the ‘dictation test’, the policy of ‘Assimilation’ and the ‘White Australia’ policy. The main Asian Migration wave occurred in 1976 after the Vietnam War forced many people to leave there homes and come here to Australia. These Asian Migrants arrived in Australia by boat which was usually very over crowded. The cause of

From 1850 to 1900 it is estimated that 90,000 Chinese, 62,000 South Pacific Islanders, 3,000 Japanese and 2,000 Afghans immigrated to Australia. 3,000 Chinese people went to New South Wales where most got jobs as ‘coolies ,which was basically semi-slavery, they were given barely enough pay to live off of and working conditions worse than the ones of free workers. Even worse the worker was bound to their employer a few years at a time by contract so they could not even leave if they wanted to. 2,000 Chinese people went to Victoria for the gold rush where they were treated horribly, they were abused, given bad rumours such as diseased and had to deal with race riots where their tents were burned and they were dragged through the dirt. In the end they started to restrict Chinese immigration around Australia, however the people that did make it through got enough wealth to settle in Australia. Pacific Islanders and Japanese people were treated the same, lied to for their skills in harsh environments, which sometimes ended in deaths. Afghans were probably given the most recognition for their work, exploring Australia and helping build a rail named ‘the Ghan’, though the conditions were the same trekking through the harsh

It pulled people from their homes and caused people to flee from their countries. Europe was left in the most chaos and many refugees were fleeing from Eastern Europe to get away from their homelands that were destroyed during the World War 2 attack. Although Australia was also left in misery and was in need of citizens, it was known as the safest place to go and many refugees were attracted to migrating to Australia. Prime minister, Billy Hughes, helped express the importance of re-populating Australia, if the population didn’t grow; it would perish. There Prime Minister Hughes came up with the slogan, ‘Populate or Perish’. This slogan was soon later recognised and helped demonstrate the importance of immigration to Australia, it began the evolution of schemes and slogans that were created in order to attract migrants to Australia. This is what led to the 10 pound pom

Today Australia is known as a multicultural country who allows people from all over the world to migrate to Australia. People are definitely not allowed to our country only because of what religion or language they speak, and definitely not based on skin color. Well this was not the case 45 years ago. 45 years ago was when the government stopped the non European immigration policy, which better known as the White Australia Policy. It started in 1901 and ended in 1975. The policy lasted for 75 years. The White Australia policy was not a single government directive, but a series of acts with a common goal, to achieve and maintain a white, British national character. When the policy ended it was a very big turning point in the country because

Immigration has always been a controversial topic in Australian society; who the government should and should not let into the country. Over the years Australia’s immigration policy has evolved and changed with the changing of attitudes and beliefs in society. The current immigration policy for Australia is a lot less discriminatory than past policies like the “White Australia policy” and the “Populate or Perish policy”. After federation in 1901 the Australian government created the Immigration Restriction Act.

The Australian Gold Rush The Australian gold rush was a series of immigrations by workers, both local and from overseas, to areas which had confirmed discoveries of gold deposits. A number of different gold finds were made prior to 1851, but the only gold found after this date initiated gold rushes. This is mainly because before this date, the government of New South Wales had suppressed the fact that there was gold in the area as they believed that is would destabilise the economy, and reduce the amount of workers which were present at the time. After the Californian gold rush began in 1848, causing many to leave Australia for California in the search for gold there, the New South Wales government re-considered its position and applied for

The book, Migrations and Belongs, written by Dirk Hoerder, dealt with the experiences people faced as they migrated in voluntary and involuntary migrations. Chapter four, “Migrations during War and Depression” focused mainly on forced migrations. This chapter dealt with the fact that after World War I, people were forced out of their homes. There was a new concept that was emerging and becoming increasing popular, the concept of nationalization. People wanted their country to consist only of the people of that origin. They wanted the un-mixing of people which led to widespread involuntary mass migration. There were such places that were open to new immigrants such as the Soviet Union, but places like Germany and France for example wanted

Assisted migration is a growing approach in which species are relocated to prevent the risk of extinction due to the destruction of their natural habitats caused by human actions (Aldred, 2016).

Since end of World War II in 1945, immigration to the United Kingdom has been substantial under the British Nationality Law 1948 which gave the same rights to those in the former colonies and territories as a British citizen to come into and live in the United Kingdom. This drew peoples from such places as the Republic of Ireland, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Caribbean, South Africa, Kenya and Hong Kong. During the 1950s into the 1960s there was a mass migration of people from the Caribbean, who settled in Britain. These immigrants were to answer the call from the British government to come and fill the gaps in the labour markets such as in hospitals and growing transport systems. Since that time others such as asylum seekers and migrants

People migrate for a number of reasons. These reasons are basically divided in four areas: Economic, Environmental, Socio-cultural and Political. Within that, the reasons may also be ‘push’ or ‘pull’ factors.The push factors are those that force a person, due to different reasons, to leave that place and go to some other place. For instances, unemployment, low productivity, underdevelopment, and poor economic conditions etc. These factors lead people to migrate and they are called Emigrants. The Emigrants on reaching their destination are termed as Immigrants.The Immigrants are always attracted by Pull factors. Pull factors are those factors in the destination country that attract the people to leave their home. Those

In general, immigration provides the immigrants a chance for a new start on life and an idea of more opportunities. For the majority of these people, the cost of immigrating represents a lot as in certain cases, immigrants are ready to liquidate of all of their assets and most of their money to afford to move. The reasons behind such a drastic decision can vary from different range of issues. It can be the desire to have higher wage rates in order to improve the way of living or to have better job opportunities, gain education and escape poverty. Sometimes it can be related to non-economic factors as for example, when refugees are moving away from a civil war, a persecution, an ethnic cleansing or a genocide. It can also be due to political instability and sometimes because of a natural disaster. Either way, immigration have a big impact on both the host country and the original country.