Australia’s Immigrants 1788-1988

✍ Scribed by Geoffrey Sherington

• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 339
• Series: Australian experience
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This edition incorporates new research findings to supplement the two-century survey and to take account of recent changes both to actual immigration and to immigration policy which have brought Australians much closer to a realization of their place within the Asia-Pacific region.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
The Law Breakers......Page 11
The Beneficiaries of Patronage......Page 25
Elements of Change......Page 34
‘Criminal Influx’......Page 38
Immigrants of Choice—’Squatters and Gentlemen’......Page 48
Immigrants of Choice—The Assisted and Hopeful’......Page 58
‘Cultural Baggage’......Page 72
The Generation of Gold......Page 89
Institutions and Ideologies......Page 103
The Ties of Kinship......Page 110
Taking Stock......Page 126
The Call of Empire: The Pre-War Years......Page 135
The Call of Empire: Post-War Years......Page 154
Immigrants from Outside the Empire......Page 171
The Renewed Search......Page 186
Refugees from War......Page 194
People from Many Lands......Page 203
The New Stocktake......Page 224
Into a New Era......Page 237
Notes......Page 249
Further Reading......Page 297
Index......Page 313