HIST1051 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cultural Assimilation, Anti-Communism, Nuclear Family
• Week Ten
• Lecture 10.1: Postwar Immigration
• LECTURE SUMMARY
• PART TWO
• Migrant memories
• Ne Australias ad assiilatio
• The end of White Australia?
• PART ONE
• Post-war worries: defence, the economy and humanitarianism
• Chagig ideas of hiteess
• British and non-British focused immigration publicity
• FOCUS QUESTIONS
1. What was the motivation behind the policy of post-war immigration?
2. What was expected of migrants in the post-war period? How did migrants respond to these
expectations?
3. Did the post-war immigration program bring an end to White Australia?
• PART ONE
• AUSTRALIA AFTER WWII (1)
• Identity: British and white BUT remote outpost of Empire = vulnerable
• Anxieties:
• Impact of the Fall of Singapore and bombing of Darwin
• Ept North ad Asia Iasio
• Other factors: declining birth rate, population too small to defend coastline, Japan
re-arm?
• Population growth necessary for defence purposes
• AUSTRALIA AFTER WWII (2)
• Last years of war = critical shortages
• Fears of another Depression
• Economic development: more workers needed to shift economy from agriculture to
manufacturing
• Population growth essential
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• Increase the birth rate?
• New babies not enough = need workers now
• Solution by Chifley Labor Government: immigration
• POPULATE O‘ PE‘I“H
• Arthur Calwell, 1945:
We aot afford to fail. There is so uh depedet o the suess of our populatio poliy
that failure will spell national disaster.
• Father of ultiultural Australia?
• Deepl oitted to White Australia
• CHANGING IDEA“ OF WHITENE““
• A HIERARCHY OF MIGRANTS
• DISPLACED PERSONS
• International Refugee Organisation (IRO): 10 million Displaced Persons in wake of Second
World War
• Australia: 170 000 between 1947 and 1954
• Balti regio: suppl of lode,
blue-eed igrats
• Beautiful Balts: oug, read to
work, and of reproductive age
• Two year contracts – unskilled roles & remote locations
• RECRUITING MIGRANTS
• RECRUITING MIGRANTS:
TOURIST IMAGES
• RECRUITING MIGRANTS:
DPs
• PART TWO
• MIGRANT MEMORIES
• A““IMILATION AND NEW AU“T‘ALIAN“
o Oral histories: uderstadig igrat eperiee
o Migrant autobiographies: growth since 1990s
o Focus on cultural assimilation rather than race/colour
o Ne Australias ad the Australia Wa of Life
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