Non-White Immigration and the 'White Australia' Policy

Palfreeman, A. C.; Irving, Terry; London, Herbert

doi:10.2307/27508017

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“…Just as sceptical geographers had asked questions about the fundamental goals of population growth before the War, now other critics began to ask questions about the means. Opposition to the white Australia policy generated a stream of publications from the Immigration Reform Group (see Rivett 1962Rivett , 1975, while the policy, and its gradual liberalization, also attracted attention from historians (Yarwood 1964;Palfreeman 1967;London 1970;Price 1974).…”

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Explaining australian immigration

Betts

1996

Journal of Population Research

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This article reviews the post-Second World War literature on explanations for Australia's immigration program. It discovers three main schools of thought based on net pull factors: the official explanation and two unofficial explanations which focus on migrants as workers and on migrants as consumers. However the growing importance of net push factors after 1974 means that some of this work is less relevant today. Explanations focusing on net push factors have yet to cohere into a distinct perspective (or perspectives) but some research has been done on chain migration and family-based migration strategies, asylum seekers, temporary movement, and migration and the law. Immigration research is sometimes controversial and politicized. While intellectual integrity must always take priority, the values of civility and tolerance are also important.

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