What migrants have to face when moving to Australia after World War II.
Australia has come a long way from who they were back in the 90s, migrants acceptance levels have improved immensely from where they were with the ‘White Australia Policy’ to now Australia being one of the largest multicultural countries in the world with more than 185 different nationalities making their homes in Australia with equality, but the question I’m going to test is Did Australians treat non-European migrants more harshly than European migrants post-war?
To say Australians weren't accepting of migrants immigrating to Australia in the post-war stage was an understatement. (Mason, 2007) puts forward that some didn't want migrants coming because they were suspicious of their intentions towards Australia, thinking they were going start another war from the inside.( Others were afraid of groups of different cultures overpopulating Australia and taking over. Then there were a fair few that believed in the ‘White Australia Policy’. The policy was made to keep Australia from going multicultural and only have white people in Australia. But soon after the policy was made, Australians realized that they couldn't survive after the war with the population they had, granted they did get a large amount of European migrants, but it wasn't enough. They looked for other alternatives and started letting migrants from all around the world in. They thought that if the migrants where still white skinned then the ‘White Australia Policy’ would still stand.
Through post-war times, migrants were all treated differently depending on where they came from, what skin colour they had to how they spoke. British migrants didn't have it too hard when migrating to Australia, it was easier to ‘blend in’ as well as both Australia and Britain were fighting together in the Second World War. Australians trusted the British. Italians on the other hand, had it much harder to be accepted in Australia. Most didn't know the English language very well, they could be picked out on the streets as
To say Australians weren't accepting of migrants immigrating to Australia in the post-war stage was an understatement. (Mason, 2007) puts forward that some didn't want migrants coming because they were suspicious of their intentions towards Australia, thinking they were going start another war from the inside.( Others were afraid of groups of different cultures overpopulating Australia and taking over. Then there were a fair few that believed in the ‘White Australia Policy’. The policy was made to keep Australia from going multicultural and only have white people in Australia. But soon after the policy was made, Australians realized that they couldn't survive after the war with the population they had, granted they did get a large amount of European migrants, but it wasn't enough. They looked for other alternatives and started letting migrants from all around the world in. They thought that if the migrants where still white skinned then the ‘White Australia Policy’ would still stand.
Through post-war times, migrants were all treated differently depending on where they came from, what skin colour they had to how they spoke. British migrants didn't have it too hard when migrating to Australia, it was easier to ‘blend in’ as well as both Australia and Britain were fighting together in the Second World War. Australians trusted the British. Italians on the other hand, had it much harder to be accepted in Australia. Most didn't know the English language very well, they could be picked out on the streets as