Essay about Australia’s Policy on Illegal Migrants

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

Political unrest and local war happens around the world all the time. Many people live in a dangerous situation and suffered from violence. Hence, large amount of asylum seeker undertakes a huge perilous, try to cross the ocean and arrive Australia. To deal with this issue, Australian government enacted mandatory detention policy and offshore processing policy, these policies become highly contentious in the community with many arguments and criticisms. This report will focus on the nature and purpose of these immigration policies and the impact towards the asylum seeker as well as the criticism form international. To propose some advice about how the future policies should be framed.

Australia in terms of immigration, has had a poor history of dealing with people travelling into the country, shown in the beginning of hand picking the majority of Australia 's population. However as the decades have rolled on, whether it be forced or by choice, Australia has become looser and more free in access and treatment within the country and importantly, less discriminatory. In order to see these improvements, the start must be shown, in which is generally summarised by the White Australia Policy.

When asylum seekers are found trying to find residency in Australia by boat or not having any valid travel documents they are not committing any crimes. The Refugee Convention is a series of article that state how to treat and help refugees. Article 31 of this

There is certainly room for improvement but much of the outcry around the closure of Manus Island represents Australians as inhumane and not doing our fair share. Australia has a humanitarian program intake of 13,750 refugees. In September 2015 it was increased by a further 12,000 in response to the conflict in Syria and Iraq. Australia resettles refugees referred by the United Nations who are most in need of resettlement. Since 2011, $258 million has been provided to deliver protection services, shelter, food and health support to vulnerable refugee

In the last few decades, the number of immigrants has increased in Australia. The department of immigration started in 1945 and about 7000,000 immigrants have moved to Australia. The recent data showed that almost 23.9% of Australian residents were born aboard according to Department of Immigration and Citizenship (2008). Nearly 43 percent of residents were born aboard (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2012). In addition, 2.8% of the world's immigrants lived in Australia, while only 0.3% of the world's population lived in Australia (UNDESA, 2013). Because of the huge number of immigrants’ Australian government set programmes to control the increase, which are integrating immigrants into its society and focusing on skilled migrants. This essay will examine how immigration is an advantage to Australia in terms of the integration program of immigrants in Australian society and the economic benefits for skilled immigrants.

Over the past couple years, the refugee crisis has gotten worse, but is this something Australia should be a part of? It might be hard but is it worth it in the end? Should Australia have a part in this and if whether the anti-immigration laws should be prohibited? In this speech, I will be discussing a range of diverse opinions and reasons on this subject. What I will be addressing will be the current problems of migration, Australia’s laws of migration

An increase in skilled immigrants can greatly alleviate the current fiscal burden that the aging population of Australia is having on the economy but only until the point where the migrants themselves age. The number of migrants that relocated to Australia throughout last year was 212, 700 people which contributed to the estimated 28.1% of the population being born overseas. Approximately 68% of immigrants were those with the purpose of working within Australia. The increase in skilled migrants greatly improves the dependency ratio which is currently 51 dependent persons to every 100 labour force aged workers.

Australia is the only country in the world that covers an entire continent; It is a developed capitalist country; it is a multicultural immigrant country. According to Cambridge dictionary (n.d.), immigration means that the act of someone coming to live in a different country. Today’s modern, urbanized and affluent Australia is due to continued immigration (Jupp, 2002). However, the history of immigrants in Australia is not smooth sailing. On January 1, 1901, several British colonies on the Australian continent formed the Commonwealth of Australia belongs to the United Kingdom. In the same year, the White Australia policy became the basic national policy of Australia, that means only white immigrants could become the Australian Citizenship

Historically, Australia and its policies were not accepting of immigration of a Multicultural Australia. With the ‘White Australia Policy’, adopted in 1901 (when the colonies

Migration under the Australian investor visa category is for applicants who have had a successful history of business or investment venture and wish to immigrate to Australia for a new investment venture. This Australian visa allows people to stay in Australia for an initial period of four years and invest within Australia. Once close to the end of the four-year period, you can get in touch with our local Australian office and one of our advisors can assist you in extending your visa or transferring your case to Permanent Residency.

The issue of Asylum seekers has been considered as one of the controversial issues in Australia due to the implementation of the Federal governments’ harsh and stringent policy against boat refugees, who flee from their countries because of violence or persecution. It is stated that this hard line approach aims to curb the influx of illegal immigrants thereby making Australian Immigration System credible and strong (Anderson & Iggulden 2016). According to Refugee Convention 1954, Australia, a signatory under United Nation(UN) Refugee Agency, is regarded as one of the generous country in dealing with the protection and rights of refugees and has created a meritorious history of accepting asylum seekers from all over the world (Refugee

Immigration, worldwide, is under pressure. At present, Australia’s immigration system and policies are not in compliance to the international and constitutional obligations particularly in regards to the system of ‘Third Country Processing’. On 13 August 2012, Third country processing was introduced for asylum seekers. The asylum seekers who venture to Australia by boat without a valid visa, must be transferred at the earliest convenience to a third country, specifically Nauru or Papua New Guinea (PNG), unless the Minister of Immigration states otherwise (Australian Human Rights Commission, 2014). A brief overview of the timeline of third country processing in Australia shows that on 13 August 2012, the regime was initially only for asylum

Globally, the process of migration is a complicated phenomenon involving huge numbers of people moving from one country to another in order to escape from unstable conditions and to seek better living conditions and opportunities . Recent political upheavals have increased the number of those people who are seeking asylum in far off areas from their own land . Since last two centuries, Australia has been shaped by immigrants. Immigration plays a key role in Australian population growth and economic development. The political trends have also impacted the country’s immigration policy, especially in the last decade.

Australia is known as free country and focuses on becoming the multicultural country. Due to this, there are many different ethnicities seen, but who deserves to be in Australia. Both Samir and I have different stories but who has more of a right to live in Australia.