Post World War Two Immigrants :: history

Post domain of a function War Two ImmigrantsDuring World War Two Australians finally get just how vulnerable they were to enemy attacks. The reality of this possibility hit post hard when the Japanese attacked Darwin and when Japanese midget subs penetrated Sydney harbour. We now realised that our island was non an impenetrable fortress. They government also realised that our country was dangerously under-populated. The concomitant was that we had too overmuch space and only 7 million raft living in it which once again made us truly vulnerable to attack. The government realised something must be done. In 1947, during a historical speech made by the minister for immigration, Arthur Augustus Calwell announced that Australia was opening move its doors to European immigrants, preferably British. Refugees and immigrants from all over Europe rushed to keep back for visas. While many different cultures migrated to Australia the two we are going to concentrate on on are the Italia ns and the British. At the conclusion of the state of war Italian soldiers and prisoner of wars returned to a destroyed Italy. The only thing worse than the enormous destruction was the human suffering. The displaced Italians sought refuge in communal camps trance dreaming of escape to countries such as Canada, the USA and Australia. Italy had been looking for an abroad country that would accept its unemployed, homeless Italians and when Australia opened her doors to them Italys Poccupier boost his people to learn a foreign language and emigrate. retardation the Britain was also in ruins and although they had won the war, it had come at a enormous loss. Luckily though for the British, Australia was very keen for British refugees to make up a large part of Australias refugee take-in. In Arthur Augustus Calwells initial speech he said, It is my hope that for every foreign migrant at that place will be ten people from the United Kingdom. So from the give way it was obvious tha t White Australia was the cornerstone of the immigration policy. Australia established schemes to attract immigrants from post war Britain and they created Australian Citizenship in 1948 so that Australians were no longer British subjects. Meanwhile, much stronger and stricter restrictions were imposed against the Italians. They were only permitted to immigrate if they already had close family already resident in Australia. The Italians suffered because they were not a priority group. The British had been given help and had been allowed to bring their families with them into Australia.