Vietnamese Community Sociology

However when communist forces captured Saigon and the Vietnam war ended, prompting the mass immigration to Australia. In 1976 the first boat (Fishing Boat KG4435) arrived in Australia with the first Vietnamese refugees on board. Those refugees aboard were accepted on humanitarian grounds, by 1981 a total of 56 boats would arrive with over 2100 illegal Vietnamese refugees. By 1981 a total of 43,400 Vietnamese had arrived in Australia (95% Legally, 5% via boat). In 1990 the Vietnamese Government relaxed departure restrictions creating a jump in migration arrival numbers to Australia. By 1991 there were 124,800 Vietnamese born residents in Australia. In the 2011 the census indicated that there were 185,000 Vietnam born Australian Residents. These numbers show us that Australia was definitely the number 1 choice for immigration.

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

The proportion of the population of Australians born overseas is quoted “over one quarter of Australians were born overseas”. This means 25% of Australians are born overseas.

The greatest proportion of Vietnamese Australians live in Sydney with strong vibrant communities in Sydney’s west and

As a result of the war, 2 million Indochinese citizens became refugees, fleeing from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam for political, religious and economic reasons, due to the rise of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. Nearly 140,000 of them were Vietnamese, who fled their country in the years after 1975, 55 000 of them came as refugees between 1975 and 1982, while 95 000 came through family reunion (an initiative set up by the government to keep families together). The White Australia Policy and the fear of Asian communism, with their discriminatory impacts had been abolished and Australia began to accept Asian migrants and political refugees after realising their vital link to Australia, the enormous trade opportunities and the declining links to Britain. By 1985, Asian–born Australians made up 2% of the population, which by 2005 had increased to nearly 7%. In 1977, multiculturalism became a firm government policy, giving funding and licences to foreign language radio stations and starting language schools for the new immigrants. By the 1980s, newspapers in Australia were being printed in over 100 different languages. The 2011 Census indicated that 185,000 people born in Vietnam were residents in Australia and 219,000 people spoke Vietnamese at home. Australia has also adopted many traditional Asian customs, including celebrating Chinese

The explanation why they supported the involvement of the war was because the Australian Democratic Party had a large Catholic membership. With that being so the party was truly anti-communist. Moreover, It was a committed to object to any ALP policies. So because of this it automatically supported the war. Hence why, The Australian Democratic party supported Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam

Vietnam’s geographical location made it strategically important to Australia’s protection of its borders. If South Vietnam were to fall to their Northern Vietnamese aggressors, Australia believed that it would leave other countries in the Asian region including itself, vulnerable to attack. Additionally, Australian as a nation was psychologically prepared for a war. The Liberal government’s policy was shaped around the idea of ‘forward defence’ which was the notion that Australia should defend itself by attacking and never allowing the threat to reach our shores. The threat that the fall of South Vietnam presented is displayed in a speech given by Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies in April of 1965 in Source B, “The takeover of South Vietnam would be a direct military threat to Australia and all the countries of South and South East Asia”. Menzies was firm in his conviction of the severity of the situation should South Vietnam be taken over by the communist regime and was convinced that a head on conflict with the problem was the answer. Australia saw Northern Vietnamese aggression as a direct military threat to the protection of their borders and was prepared for the governments ‘forward defence’ approach of taking the fight to the

More than 80,000 Vietnamese people moved to Australia in the decade following the Vietnam War, many as refugees.

Vietnamese migration to Australia has had a large impact on Australia. There is a rich history on Vietnamese migration to Australia. Prior to 1975, the numbers of Vietnamese migrants to Australia and Victoria were low. These numbers were low but included many tertiary students, orphans from the Vietnam War that was on during that time, and wives of Australian servicemen. Today, 48 years after 1970, the Vietnamese people form the sixth largest migrant group in Australia. The majority of people with a Vietnamese heratige have settled in or around NSW or VIC.

Australia of course voted in favour of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations in 1948 (Australian Human Rights Commission, Unknown, para 2) and also established their own Human Rights Commission in 1986 (Australian Human Rights Commission, 2013, para 1). In contrast, Vietnam's social values are more focused on family and less focused on human rights, but also, like Australia, on a sense of community. In Vietnam, families are very tight and for parents "children are their most valuable assets" (Vietnam Online, 2015, para 3). Elderly members of families are also taken care of until they die (NC State University, Unknown, para 3), which is unlike most families in Australia. Human rights are also much less prominent and some examples of Vietnam's weak human rights record include "suppressing virtually all forms of political dissent", freedom of expression and freedom of the press are tightly controlled and "religious activists are ... intimidated and imprisoned" (Human Rights Watch, 2015, para 1).

Australia’s population is culturally and ethnically diverse. As at June 2010, there were 22.3 million residents in Australia, around one-quarter of the population was born overseas and many residents who were born in Australia have a parent who was born in another country. Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders represent 2.3% of the population

Vietnam is a country which has a long history of formation and development. Our culturewas heavily influenced by East Asian cultural sphere. That is, Vietnamese prefer boys than girls, men than women. They thought that boys can maintain their lineage and can do many things compared to girls. Thus, many families, especially in the North of Vietnam, they only want to have sons, and try to give birth as many as they can until they have a son. Plus, people in rural and border areas of Vietnam believe that marry at young age is ideal. Hence, it gives them more time to have more

Thailand does not have a history of migration in large numbers to other countries. Most of those who came to Australia before the 1980s were either married to Australians or were former students. Many of the students had been sponsored under various schemes, notably the Colombo Plan and military traineeships. During the 1980s, a large number of Thai students came to Australia, including for short courses in English language training. By 1986, the Thailand-born population rose to 6998 people, half of whom were of Thai ancestry. In Thailand, the population comprises of various ethnic groups such as Thai, Chinese, Khmer, Mon, as well as indigenous groups such as the Semang, Lana and Chao Nam. Over the centuries, Thailand has been home to displaced

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Migration to Australia has been a problem for a lot longer than I have been alive, Chinese migration has been around for almost 200 years. In 2006 a census was taken and that 221,995 people (5.39%) in Sydney reported Mandarin or Cantonese as the language they used at home.  Today Chinese communities form a vibrant and important part of Sydney 's character. Since the 1990’s the rate of Chinese immigration has risen to become the third largest group among our immigrants. Since the mid-1990s, migration has become less permanent than it used to