Destination Australia: migration to Australia since 1901

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"This book charts the history of migration to Australia from the twentieth century to the present. Written by one of Australia's leading historians of immigration, the book explores three main themes: the maintenance of British White Australia through to 1947; the Europeanisation of immigration through to the 1970s; and, the dismantling of White Australia and the radical diversification of immigration that has continued to the present day. More than just a linear history, Richards uses the dram…

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Full title :Destination Australia : migration to Australia since 1901 / Eric Richards.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2008.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, Manchester University Press, University of New South Wales Press
Place of Publication:Sydney
Language:eng
Publication Date:2008.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiii, 431 pages) : : illustrations, maps

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781742230504, 1742230504
oclc:ocn647881352
LC Classification:DU120
Dewey Decimal:994.0086912

Contents; Preface; 1 The new century: 1900 and 2000; 2 The slow awakening: 1900-14; 3 Migrants and the Great War: 1914-18; 4 White British Australia resuscitated: the 1920s; 5 Malaise, recrimination and demographic pessimism: the 1930s; 6 Race, refugees, war and the future: 1939-45; 7 Arthur Calwell and the new Australia: 1945-51; 8 The great diversification: the 1950s and 1960s; 9 White Australia dismantled: the 1970s; 10 The end of the heroic days: the 1980s; 11 Whither immigrant Australia?; 12 The new century; 13 Retrospect; Statistics; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

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Australia Australia -- Emigration and immigration Australia -- Emigration and immigration… Australie -- Émigration et immigration Australie -- Émigration et immigration … Emigration and immigration Emigration and immigration -- Governmen… History Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation -- … Immigrants -- Intégration -- Australie