Showing From White Australia to Woomera: The Story of Australian Immigration by James Jupp

Paperback. Pub Date: July. 2007 Pages: 256 Publisher: Camidge. University Press There has never been a greater need FOR A Sober. Historically informed yet critical account of the immigration Policy in Australia. In this REVISED and updated edition. Australia James Jupp.'s leading specialist on migration. surveys the changes in policy over the last thirty years since the seismic shift away from the White Australia Policy. Along the way he outlines the history of Australian immigration. compares the achievements of the Fraser. Hawke and Keating governments. and considers the establishment of the 'institutions' of multiculturalism and ethnicity. Jupp looks critically at the ways economic rationalism. the rise of Pauline Hanson and One Nation. and the environmental debate have impacted upon migration choices. The vexed issue of refugees and asylum seekers is also covered in grea...