Chinese Immigrants To Australia

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In 1850s, Australian Gold rush attracted many Chinese immigrants to move to Australia as gold miners. However, Australian did not accept Chinese in their community. One of the most efficient methods for reducing Chinese immigrant was introducing new policy called ‘White Australian Policy’ in 1949. Kamp (2013) stated that this policy restricted Asian immigrants to migrate to Australia and established racism ideologies. According to Gao (2011), in the next three decades around 1972, after Whitlam government has been elected, this ‘White Australian Policy’ was abolished. As a result, there was an increasing number of Chinese refugees, who migrated to Australia. They came from different backgrounds. Most of them were Chinese mainland, and the rest …show more content…

This paper argues that Chinese immigrants took steps against racism in order to survive and have successful career in Australia. It also explains about the Chinese roles to build Australia as multicultural country. It will based on the reason of Chinese to migrate to Australia, the difficulties that Chinese immigrants faced, the government policies, the strategy of Chinese entrepreneurship and finally this paper will discuss about Chinese multicultural effect in Australia.
C. Structure of the Body Essay:
Key Idea 1: Chinese immigrants came to Australia from different reasons and background
1. In the early years, Chinese immigrants were interested by Australian gold rush
2. Many Chinese came as refugees and some of them reached illegally to seek an opportunity in Australia.
3. After the ‘White Australian Policy’ was abolished, many Chinese move to Australia under business migration program, especially Chinese ancestry who did not originate from China.

Key Idea 2: However, Australian did not accept Chinese immigrants and discriminated against them
1. The beginning of racism ideologies towards Chinese …show more content…

They came with their own culture and language
2. Progressively, Australia became multicultural country.

D. Conclusion:
In conclusion, this paper has explored the strategy that Chinese immigrants used for living in Australia. Chinese immigrants came from different background. While, some of them came to Australia as refugee, others came as skilled immigrant under Business Migration Program. However, both of them had the same purpose, to get opportunity in life.
On the other hand, refugees who came in 1970s found discrimination from Australian. They also had to follow government’s policy that asked for unskilled immigrants to return to their country.
The difficulties that Chinese should be faced, encourage them to find solution to be survive in Australia. They learned Australian economic strategies like three major capitals, which “knew whom, knew why and knew how”. It meant that they must know their career purpose, and then built up their own career and knew about career proficiency. These strategies could help them to be accepted in Australian community and became successful entrepreneurship. In addition, they did not only eligible to live in Australia, but they also spread their own culture and built Australian as multicultural

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