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This 15 page paper contrasts and compares the 1980's to the 1990's immigration patterns, motives and consequences in Australia. Issues related to immigration are discussed and the impact of increase immigration to Australia. Australia's immigration policies are discussed as well as the reaction by the world to those policies. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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to repopulate Australia with desirables and whites. However, the immigration that Australia has experienced, especially during the period of time between the 1980s and the 1990s has been an entirely
different type of immigration and different motives, altogether. According to J. Collins book, Migrant Hands in a Distant Land: Australias Post-war Immigration, the post war immigration picked up considerably due
to the dissolution of the White Australian Policy. The early eighties saw the majority of the immigrants coming from Vietnam as refugees from the war(Collins). Also groups from Lebanon and
Latin America began making their way into Australia, each bringing with them new ideas and foreign influences. The 1990s saw even greater numbers of refugees coming from many of the
former Soviet block countries such as Yugoslavia and Romania in an attempt to flee the oppression that they experienced there, and the devastating poverty that many were facing if they
remained in their homeland. Other groups that have moved into the country, according to the most recent statistics from the Australian immigration department, include those fleeing oppression in the Middle
East, in particular, Afghanistan (Immigration, Australia 2002). In fact, the recent influx of Middle Eastern refugees, in other words, illegal immigrants, has really put the country at odds with itself,
it can be said. At first many were being detained, but the question soon became one of finding enough facilities to handle the sheer numbers of the refugees escaping the
devastation in their country. Australias Migration Act 1958 required that all people who were in Australia without valid documentation must be detained while their application for asylum was considered. During
2000/2001, 8401 people were held in immigration detention facilities in Australia, the largest number (1288) in Woomera, a remote region of South Australia(Immigration, 2002). Of course, not all of the
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