Australia, The changing patterns of migration 1945-2000?

Question

The changing patterns of migration 1945-2000 in Australia?

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Answer 1

In the 1947, 844 young Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians arrived in Melbourne and stayed at a hotel, but for an exchanged they agreed to work for the government for 2 years. 7 years later this idea operated, nearly 171,000 came. Most migrants arrived by ships, going to major cities such as Sydney and Melbourne. From there they were immediately taken to migration hostels in rural areas, often in previous armed forces camp. The purpose of staying in an armed forces camp was that migrants stay only four to six weeks until they could be resettled near their workplace. At times however work was difficult to find and some stayed for months if not years.

All assisted migrants aged over 16 had to work. Regardless of training men were classified as laborers and women as domestics. One of the largest employers was the Snowy Mountain idea. Australia’s largest post war project, this diverted the course of the Snowy and Tumut Rivers to provide irrigation and generate hydro-electricity. The work was hard, dangerous. Other migrants found work in factories, in the burgeoning iron and steel industries, on the railways and in mines.

From the 1950s, Australia began to relax its ‘White Australia’ policy. In 1956 non-European residents were allowed to apply for citizenship. 2 years later the Dictation Test was abolished as a further means of keeping out. By the 1960s mixed race migration was becoming easier and in 1967 Australia entered into its first migration agreement with a non-European country, like Turkey.

Then in 1972 Australians elected their first Labor government since 1948. As Minister for Immigration, Al Grassby radically changed authorized policy. The quota system, based on country of origin and protection of racial ‘homogeneity’, was replaced by ’structured selection’. Migrants were to be chosen according to personal and social attributes and working group rather than country of origin.
In 1973, declaring Australia a ‘multicultural’ society, Al Grassby announced that every remains of past ethnic or racial discrimination had been abolished. The Australian Citizenship Act of that year declared that all migrants were to be having equal treatment.

During the 1990s, as it is now, more and more younger people migrated to Australia firstly to study at universities and then after a few years in their local countries, settle in Australia and make a input by working in high level jobs.

Answer 2

During the 1990s, as it is now, more and more younger people migrated to Australia firstly to study at universities and then after a few years in their local countries, settle in Australia and make a input by working in high level jobs.