Migration In Australia Essay

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Migration, be it legal or ilegal, has been an unseparable tendency of people to relocate themselves across international borders, either voluntarily or involuntarily, for a whole variety of reasons. For the past few years it has been put under a microscope for sake of the, so called, „Migrant Crisis“ triggered by the US intervention in Lybia during Arab Spring, however, it could be chalked up to its recency and Europe being unable to contain such an immense number of migrants. Interestingly enough, Migrant Crisis has been a subject to racial hatred and fear of Radical Islam rather than a focus on the numbers as regardless of whether it were Assyrians fleeing their homeland or even Czechs deciding to pursue better jobs in Germany, theoretically …show more content…

On top of everything, chances are that the people, who were brave enough to pull their families together and migrate, could have also had the courage to help fight whatever that compelled them to migrate elsewhere in the first place, nonetheless chose else possibly for a brighter future of their children who frequently migrate also.
What migration undoubtedly does help is population, productivity, and participation, the three Ps of high economic growth, which may be demonstrated on the case from Australia, whose inhabitants find immigrants to be hard workers with a diverse and rich cultural background capable of securing Australia’s growth and economical strength, showing that newcomers are at their prime working age at about 88% and the participation rate of those already possessing Australian citizenship in 2013 was 12% over the national average rate. (Carvalho) Australians are probably well aware of being immigrants themselves as the majority tends …show more content…

Involuntary migrants, on the account of the conditions under which they were forced to leave their homeland, are then entitled to an asylum in the receiving country without a possibility of being expelled under the 1951 UN Convention Relating to Refugees. (Dadush) It originally protected Europeans refuging in and before 1950 however the amended 1967 Protocol abolished the timely and geographic restriction classifying a refugee as follows: "A person who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former habitual residence as a result of such events, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it."

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