Compare And Contrast Two Different Period Of Immigration To Australia

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Contrast between Two Different Periods of Immigration to Australia According to Australia’s Changing Face, during 70 years 5.5 million people have arrived and settled in Australia from 170 counties. The country has a remarkable migration history; a small band of Africans dwelled in Australia approximately 50.000 years ago. Moreover, James Cook and his expedition were the first Europeans who reached the southeastern coast of the continent in 1770. Until the Australian Federation was instituted (1901) thousands of Chinese, Irish, and Scottish immigrated freely to the continent for starting new lives. On the contrary, newly-formed federation had applied different approaches and limitations for foreigners. Immigration policy and global circumstances …show more content…

In 1901, Australian Federation was established and first legal stage of immigration; “Immigration Restriction Act” was applied by the government. This statement was also called “The White Australia Policy”; in addition to till the end of the first decade, two more restrictions were admitted against Oceanian and Asian laborers. When World War I ended (1914), global processes infuelced to the government for changing immigration policy. Especially, Asian and Oceanian population migrated to Australia, though they were exposed to dictation tests and health examinations. After World War I, Germans, Austrians, Hungarians, Bulgarians and Turks were restricted by the government, because they were declared as “enemy aliens”. In general, politicians and locals were against especially non-European asylum because of infectious diseases and criminal accidents. It was also believed that, immigrants seized Australians job opportunities in the cities; therefore they were settled in rural areas. As stated in Migration to Australia since Federation: A Guide to the Statistics, until World War II, nearly 700.000 immigrants arrived and settled in the country and the population grew to 7 million. During the rest of 19th century international conditions and immigration policy were changed

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