Postwar Migration Feb 9 2009

Australian Studies: Part 2 Post-war Migration

Migration ‘Post-War’

why people came to Australia

Where they came from

Who they were

Australian Studies: Part 2 Post-war Migration

Destruction of Europe

Australia ‘populate or perish’

North, Eastern and Southern Europe

Later refugees

Australian Studies: Migration Why people came to Australia

Fighting in World War 2 had destroyed many countries in Europe because of

systematic bombing by both sides heavy fighting

Many European societies were now Very poor Offered little hope

Australian Studies: Migration Why people came to Australia

‘The Blitz’ – German bombing of English cities

sustained bombing of Britain by Germany

became known as ‘The Blitz’

lasted 9 months: 7 Sept 1940 to 10 May 1941

by end of May 1941 over 43,000 civilians had been killed

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/00/a6653900.shtml

Australian Studies: Migration Why people came to Australia

Bomb damage in England

Australian Studies: Migration Why people came to Australia

London 1940

‘Blitz’ began with London bombed for 57 consecutive nights

http://homepage.eircom.net/~finnegam/war/blitz.htm

Australian Studies: Migration Why people came to Australia

Australian Studies: Migration Why people came to Australia

London 1940

Over 1 million homes destroyed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NA-306-NT-3163V.jpg

Australian Studies: Migration Why people came to Australia

Bomb damage in Germany

Dresden after the ‘firebombing’ by Allied forces

Up to 25,000 died within a 14-hour period

http://www.rense.com/general19/flame.htm

Australian Studies: Migration Post-war –

where people came from

Australian Studies: Migration Post-war - where people came from

United Kingdom, made up of…..

Scotland Ireland England Wales Cornwall

Australian Studies: Migration Post-war - where people came from

Holland Baltic states Poland, Hungary,

Czechoslovakia Southern Europe Yugoslavia Italy Greece Turkey

www.ezilon.com/map_of_europe.htm

Northern & Eastern Europe

Australian Studies: Migration Why people came to Australia

1945 and 1965 - more then two million migrants came to Australia

'Populate or perish' became the catchcry

intensive international campaign to encourage migration to Australia

initially targeted Britons: government paid most of their fare to Australia

Australian Studies: Migration The next wave of migration

The next major wave of migration started with displaced persons - people fleeing their countries of birth due to war

1947 to 1953, 170,000 ‘displaced persons’ migrated to Australia. Many came from Eastern Europe

Australian Studies: Migration Conditions of migration

Migrants had to stay in Australia for at least two years and work in whatever jobs the government gave them

Thousands worked on the Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Scheme

They lived in camps and newly built towns doing hard and dangerous work.

Australian Studies: Migration How many people came?

Between 1945 and 1965 more then two million migrants came to Australia

All migrants, especially those who did not speak English well, had to put up with prejudice

Australian Studies: Migration Which people came to Australia?

Minister for Immigration Arthur Caldwell meets Scottish migrants in 1945

Australian Studies: Migration People also came in families

Australian Studies: Migration Why people came to Australia

Refugees After the Vietnam War, many

refugees came from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos

this photo shows Vietnamese people arriving in 1979

Australian Studies: Migration Why people came to Australia

Refugees More recently, people

fleeing war in Northern Africa have been coming to Australia