Tan Le Migration To Australia Case Study

Back in Vietnam, her family had a coffee trading business in Sai Gon, Vietnam. Being Chinese, private business owner, her family were influenced a lot after the war. They turned from a middle class family, with pretty high education to refugees leaving the country with bare hands. Being a high school student when her family came here in 1987, Professor Hong was old enough to experience the harsh life of southern people in Vietnam after the war, and told her personal story.

“Forgotten Ship: A Daring Rescue As Saigon Fell” is an emotional and factual account of the devastation caused after North Vietnam defeated the South. Similar to Ha’s story,

Asian migration wave has had a significant impact on the Australian Political Policies as Asian it is a significant issue because it helped to make Australia richer and more culturally diverse today. It has also helped to change Political Policies to benefit other migrants positively. The slides hat follow allow you to observe present discussions and will also include an insight into the Asian Migration Wave, Impacts relating to Australia’s political policies as well as whether these impacts were continuous or changed.

The immigration of Vietnamese people to Australia has been occurring for over 40 years in this period of time the reason for migration has changed with the times, but predominantly began with the conflict between North and South Vietnam. With the end of WW2 in 1945, many counties and regions had been greatly affected, including the Pacific, Asia and Europe. The rise of communism, beginning in Russia, and slowly spreading to China was soon adopted by the Northern portion of Vietnam. After declaring independence in 1954, Vietnam divided into North and South Vietnam. Only a few years later the North spread their power and overtook the South, of which resulted in the whole country being ruled by communism.

Australia first came involved in the Vietnam conflict in 1962 when the Australian Government sent a team of thirty army advisers to help train the South Vietnamese Army for its fight against the NLF guerrillas. At the same time a squadron of Royal Australian Air Force fighters were sent to nearby Thailand. While the alliance with the USA was becoming increasingly important, Australia still had strong ties with Britian. In January 1965, Australia sent an army of battalion to help Britain denfend newly independent Malaysia against border raids by Indonesia. Only three months later the Australian Prime Minister Menzies announced the commitment of another battalion to help the USA in

Nevertheless, the orphan played a very beneficial role in An Tinh’s identity development. An Tinh connected to the orphan because the orphan wanted to isolate herself, how she declared herself Vietnamese and how she was a social

It was in 1945 following the end of WWII that thee Chifley Labour Government established the Department of Immigration with Arthur Calwell at its head. The department used the slogan ‘Populate or Perish’ to promote the idea of increase Australia’s population to the people. The surrounding events such as the recent war and vulnerability to border security breech by the Japanese on top of the small population, convinced the then prime minister Ben Chifley and the Australian public that immigration was vital to the nation’s survival.

Australia was very concerned by the actions of communist North Vietnam to try and control the whole country. We were worried that if South Vietnam fell to communism it would be another step closer to Australia.

This shows the effects of the Vietnam War and how it can cause separation between the family not just physically but also mentally.

Aboriginal and Torres Trait Islander people migrated to Australia from Asia and Africa about40,000 years ago.They had a nomadic lifestyle.They hunted animals for food and used weapons made of wood and metal to hunting eg:-Boomerang.

The 27th of March 1952, approved the admission of some Japanese war brides and ex-servicemen into Australia. This was a significant turning point for Australian Immigration as previously, because of the, “White Australia” policy, immigration policy had been racially discriminatory and not let any other nation into Australia other than Europeans.

The traditional view the Vietnamese have on their social duties dervies on more a folklore explaining the origin of Vietnam. “The mountain-meet-ocean geographical characteristic of Vietnam is significant to the cultural identity of Vietnamese women, because the culture associates mountains with fatherhood and the ocean with motherhood…Vietnamese associate their myth of origin with the reconciled conflict of a divorce, where Mother, whose nature was that of water, took the form of a bird and flew to the mountains, and Father, whose nature was that of the mountains, took the

Ching also made the life-altering decision to travel to America to escape the oppressive society of China. So does Winnie. Much of Winnie's story is revealed to her daughter only at the end of the novel through the intervention of Auntie Helen, but brings the mother and daughter to a higher level of understanding of each other and their respective customs. One can only imagine a similar exchange between Tan and her own mother, an experience obviously worthy of publication.

In a hot day, the narrator, who called himself first son, think back how and why he came to America with his family. When he was seven years old, his father was put in re-education camp, and his mother chose to leave Vietnam with the narrator and his siblings. They got into the fishing boat that is very crowded. People who were in boat sit on each other’s lap and didn’t have any personal space. The narrator saw what his neighbors brought with them. He was weird and confound about those people brought bonsai and seeds. While the boat was in the ocean, they went out of food and water, and his brother, who called Son Number Two, was dying. His mother cut her finger and fed him twice. This made his brother couldn't argue with his mother and do

Ha’s family is changing for the poverty in South Vietnam, and her mom was saying “You deserve to grow up where you don’t worry about saving half a bite of sweet potato” (47, Lei) which does suggest that South Vietnam is in a poverty and they need resources for the army. When Ha’s mother called a family meeting she said “Should we leave our home” (44, Lei), she was saying that it was also up to the family to decide what they should do and if they have to flee. Another would be that Ha and her brother Khoi wakes he up and they go to the garden and he says “No matter what Mother decides, we are not to leave. I must protect my chick and you your papayas.”