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Immigration Patterns In Australia Essay

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To provide a context for this study, it is necessary to understand Australia’s changing immigration patterns. From its earliest occupation, Australia has attracted immigrants globally, ‘Australia has had a long history of immigration since the first European settlement in the 1700s. People from all parts of the world have brought with them, their cultures, customs and languages’ (Creswell, 2004).

Western Australia is the fastest growing state in Australia and the dynamics of this population change now corroborates that the number of immigrants have excelled the number of natural births. Current census data (Australian Bureau of Statistics) for 2013-2014 shows that even though the net overseas migration for Australia (212,700 …show more content…

These factors are normally dependent on the circumstances behind the events experienced in their home country and the push factors leading to their immigration, ‘the political and economical turmoil following the transition to deomocracy in 1994 saw an increase in emigration from South Africa’ (Phillip and Ho, 2010). Over the past decade large numbers of the South African population have left South Africa for a variety of reasons following the application of political reforms and the dismantling of apartheid. Many Afrikaans-speaking migrants will acknowledge shared motivations for their departure from their home country such as political insecurity, economical insecurity, educational insecurity and personal insecurity as a result of an increase in crime rates (Barkhuizen, 2006; Barkhuizen & Knoch, 2005; Smith, …show more content…

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