...Australia, which is a relatively high-immigration country and a popular nation to immigrants all around the world. Since ancient time, Australia attracts a mass of immigrants to study or work because of the clean natural environment, biology diversity and rich natural resources, perfect education system as well as the multicultural society (Ehow, n.d.). It should be acknowledged that immigration has played an integral role in Australia’s population increase and economic development (Migration Expert, n.d.). The immigration in Australia has undergone a long-term process. Firstly, indigenous inhabitants have lived in Australia for approximately 40,000 years. On 26 January 1788, a date known as ‘Australia Day’ at present, the Britain’s first...
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...The topic of immigration and multiculturalism is a highly debated one with pro- and anti- groups each presenting strong and applicable arguments towards why immigration is damaging or enriching. Immigration has both the ability to damage and enrich a host society, however the affect it has, ultimately depends on the attitudes, policies and beliefs of the society’s people. The reception of migration may be influenced by personal values and way of life of citizens, however it can also be seen to be hugely swayed by political leaders. This essay will demonstrate these points through explanation and the exploration of the thoughts of those, both anti- and pro- immigration with within Australia. It will highlight the assets which migration can provide Australia – economically and culturally and give reasons why anti-immigration policies would damage the society instead of enriching it. Reasons why immigration is seen in a negative light will also be addressed, including national identity loss, unemployment and negative economic effects. Over the last fifty years, Australia has encompassed a large-scale immigration policy predominantly “concerned with population building and importing human capital and skills,”(Jackubowicz 2006). Multiculturalism, strongly linked and interchangeably used with immigration came around as a term in the 1970’s and was initially strongly advocated politically. However in more recent years questions relating to whether or not multiculturalism should...
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...the main features of the Australian labour market focusing on the issues of government regulations, role of the unions and immigration. Attempt to model the labour market in Australia using the economic model of demand and supply. In particular, demonstrate how you can incorporate in this model the issues of market segmentation according to the difference in workers’ skills as well as the impact of government regulations and immigration. Australia has a total population of approximately 23 million people, a labour force participation rate of 65.1% and an unemployment rate of 5.6% (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2013). The Australian labour market is subject to both government regulation and immigration, which in combination with Unions and differences in worker’s skills (or human capital) create issues of labour market segmentation (Department of Education, Employment & Workplace Relations 2013). Australian labour markets are highly regulated in terms of minimum wage laws (Garnaut, Ganguly & Kang 2003). This creates an unequal distribution of employment to those possessing high levels of human capital, when contrasted to employment of those with low human capital (Garnaut, Ganguly & Kang 2003). This is because minimum wage laws put a potentially binding wage floor on wages paid. Thus, when the labour supply increases for low skilled work; due to immigration or the incentive of minimum wage, the outcome can result in a labour surplus. This is due to the equilibrium wage falling...
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...Multiculturalism in Australia Student’s Name University Multiculturalism in Australia Multiculturalism is a political agenda aimed at maintenance of religious, ethical, and cultural diversity in the society. In the most cases, multiculturalism is associated with Australia (Nagle, 2009). More and more immigrants arrive in Australia. The Australian government takes measures according to the control of the immigration process. However, not all measures aimed at the control of the immigration process are executed fully. Nowadays, almost 23 million people live in Australia; density of the population is about 3 persons per 1 sq. km. Ethnic composition of the Australian population consists of Europeans (mostly Englishmen and Irishmen), which make almost 95 per cent, Asians (including expatriates form Middle East) – 4 per cent, and original residents and residents from Torres Strait – almost 1 per cent (Lowe, 2012). Two-fifths of the modern Australian population consists of immigrants of the first or second generations. The process of immigration is followed by the dramatic changes of the ethnic-demographic structure of the Australian society. Before the Second World War, only expatriates from the Anglo-Saxon cultural space immigrated in Australia, however, after 1945 the situation had changed. The first dramatic immigration wave came from Eastern Europe and Scandinavia; the second wave came from South Europe (in most cases from Italia...
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...Australia has a legal obligation towards asylum seekers and refugees. Australia has a legal obligation towards Asylum Seekers and Refugees as it is a signatory to the UN Human Rights and Refugee Conventions. Furthermore, Australia has a moral obligation based on its membership of the world community. “Australia is one of the 146 signatory countries to the United Nations 1951 Convention and or/ 1967 Protocol relating to the status of refugees”. (Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, 2009) According to Australian Human Rights Commission an asylum seeker is someone who has fled their country and applies to the government of another country for protection as a refugee, (Australian Human Rights Commision, 2012) whereas a person is a refugee the moment he or she fulfils the criteria of the convention. As part of signatory countries to the United Nations 1951 Convention they are “obliged to act according to their efforts to allow everyone to seek and enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. This right may not be invoked in the case persecutions genuinely arising from non- political crimes or acts of contrary to the purposes and Principles on the United Nations”. (United Nations, 2011) This means that Australia has committed to respect the rights of refugees and to uphold the obligations set out in the treaty. This is in contradiction to the Migration Act 1958, which states, “Australian law requires that asylum seekers who have not been successful in their claims for refugee...
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...AIA103 Australia New World Nation 3. Since the late 1940s, Australia has been transformed from a monocultural ‘British’ society to become one of the most racially and culturally diverse nations in the world. How would you explain this? Today, Australia is considered as one of the most successful nations in building a tolerant, inclusive, and culturally diverse society. Many people are willing to live in this land. However, the pace to this successful society is very tough. For the first 50 years of federation Australia, this country was a monocultural ‘British’ society. Most migrants came from Britain. Since the late 1940s, more people from different countries immigrate to Australia. Most of them are European migrants after World War II. This phenomenon triggered defensive reactions by the previous dominant of Anglo-Australians (Nichols, 2011). The dominant wanted to assimilate the immigrants at the first stage, but some conflicts occurred during this process. Then, the immigration policy has been changed from assimilationsm to multiculturalism. After the start of federation of Australia in 1901, the government utilized White Australia Policy to all Australians, preventing anyone to enter Australia unless they were from Britain and trying to make this country into an English-speaking, Anglo-Australian cultural one. At that time, English is the first language being spoken by above 95 per cent people in Australia (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2002). Britain...
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...Geography Assessment Task: Written Report Australia in its regional and global contexts Migration Introduction Australia is a nation built on the process of international migration. According to the 2011 Census, over a quarter of Australia’s population was born overseas. This indicates that migrants play an important role in Australia’s population growth and the nation’s development. The large proportion of migrants also broadened the cultural diversity in Australia. This report will briefly outline the nature of migration in Australia, the role played by government and non-government organisation (NGOs) in migration, treaties and agreements related to migration, advantages and disadvantages of migration, and social justice and equity...
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...is granted to people outside Australia, usually in camps and settlements in developing countries. Offshore humanitarian program has been divided into three main categories, named, refugee, special humanitarian and special assistance. The Refugee category for people who subject to persecution in their country of origin and who are refugees as defined by the Refugee Convention or who are perceived to be in situations of particular need. The second category, special humanitarian program, for people who, while not being refugees are subject to substantial discrimination amounting to a gross violation of their human rights in their country of origin. The third category, special assistance,...
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...increasingly significant for Australia. In the past. As you are no doubt aware, a company in Australia who has sponsored in the past, would be more open to sponsoring again in the future, as they are already comfortable with the sponsoring process. Australian companies who have advertised jobs in Australia with 457 visa sponsorship, are also likely to have been pre-approved by the Department of Immigration in Australia, as a qualifying 457 visa sponsoring organisation. Anyway, the subclass 457 visa program is designed for people who want to work temporarily in Australia. This program allows applicants to work for up to four years for a sponsoring employer and is restricted to people seeking to be employed in skilled occupations. There are three processing stages: sponsorship, nomination and visa application(Settle, 2011). This is the most commonly used program for Australian employers to sponsor overseas workers to work in Australia in skilled positions on a temporary basis. There are also special arrangements for employers in regional areas across Australia which allow them to sponsor workers into less-skilled positions that are not otherwise open to workers in cities and non-regional areas. So you are in Australia and have been working on your working holiday visa for an employer for 4 months or so, know that your 6-month limitation on working for the one employer is fast approaching but want to keep working for your boss and want to stay on in Australia as long as possible...
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...Skill migration is the best immigration policy strategy because it contributes to the strong growth of Australia’s economy. Since 1970s the expansion of Australia´s population and the achievement of skill profile had impacted the economic development of the country. Not only it had allowed people to live in a pacific and harmonious environment, but shaping the nation towards economic prosperity and quick progress in pro an industrialized, secure and pleasant state. Australia is named as a “country of immigrants” having one in four people born in overseas and with a great advantage: it is still sharp contrast to the chaos, intolerance and hatred that suffered a lot of countries worldwide. One big concern is the enormous amounts of capital...
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...Question 5 ii. Research Methodology 5 iii. Data Collection 6 iv. Expected Outcomes - Conclusion 7 Reference 8 Executive Summary This report shows the immigration rates and is compared to those of the rest of the world. From this report, Australia can be seen as a widely multicultural society with a very wide variety of ethnicities and country of origins. The first chart was obtained from the Australia Bureau of Statistics. It clearly outlines the migration growth from the 1970’s – 2014; Although the numbers are not inversely increasing, the final migration population in the recent years has clearly outgrown from when migration first started back in the 70’s. The second chart was also obtained from the Australia Bureau of Statistics. The data reflects on the numbers of different population from different countries residing in Australia in the year 2014. It can be seen that the European countries are top on the charts followed by Asian countries. Despite each country having its own resources and opportunity to work, there are a portion of them that choose to migrate to Australia and have yet to stop increasing over the years. This could be caused by the increased job opportunities and scarce labour availability in Australia, hence requiring the extra experience and manpower available from all over the world. In a nutshell, from the statistics shown, one of the reasons the charts are showing an inverse increase over the...
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...backgrounds. Multiculturalism is more significant because of the larger claims it made about the actual or preferred character of the Australian people and national culture. These embellishments were promoted by a relatively small coterie of elites, as Mark Lopez has painstakingly documented,1 and became standard formulations used in official accounts of Australian national identity and citizenship. While the sting has gone out of multiculturalism and the national debate has moved on to issues of citizenship and refugee policy, multicultural formulations still inform official documents. According to this view, Australia is now made up of people of diverse cultures that should be given equal status with the Australian mainstream. Australian citizenship is then invoked as the glue that binds these different groups into a national unity. The multicultural account of Australia as a nation of diverse cultural groups has been taken over by the Australian Citizenship Council in its prescriptions for Australian Citizenship for a New Century.2 The Citizenship Council eschews any notion of common national identity or shared culture in favour of 'public acceptance of diversity' and abstract civic values. Such values underpin citizenship, according to the Citizenship Council, and these together define and unite Australians. In the following paper we give a critical account of the evolution of multicultural policy and...
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...population has increased significantly due to immigration. The growth rate of its population was 2.1% in 2010, which is higher than that of in China, US and Canada. It is predicted to reach 36 million in 2050. However, both positive and negative impacts come into being because of ‘Big Australia’. It impacts on environmental, social and economical issues in Australia. This essay will examine the influences of high population growth rate in Australia, and it will determine whether the measures should be taken by Australia government so that the population growth will be decreased. Large immigration in Australia has positive outcomes. Encouraging migrants can fill opening in the Australia job market. For example, there are lots of scarce jobs in Australia, such as male nurses and teachers. Encouraging migrants attracts lots of people who have enrich work experience of those scarce jobs to come to Australia, as a result of it, the jobs of male nurses and teachers can be enriched. For instance, skilled migrants can fill jobs as the reason that Negative outcomes also need to be considered with the large immigration. Firstly, there are not enough water resources for those migrants to drink. Australia is a country of lacking water seriously, if too much migrants immigrate to Australia, there would be not enough water afforded to Australian residents and migrants. Secondly, the houses for migrants to live are not enough. If Australia government build more houses to enable those migrants...
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...Since 1954 Australia has made numerous leglislitive amendments to the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) but it was not until 2012 that the Australian government introduced legislation allowing for the offshore processing of asylum seekers (Refugee Council of Australia, 2014). In contrast to Australia’s long debated offshore processing policies is the widely accepted and embraced practice of processing onshore being used in democratic nations such as the United States, United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden, and all other countries accepting refugees. Australia is the only country in the world to mandate the strict enforcement of the detention of asylum-seekers (Sawer, Abjorensen, & Larkin,...
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...Is Australia a migrant nation? The population of Australia is built up by migrants and true Australians. They come from all over the world. Most of the migrants come from the United Kingdom and New Zealand. Australia has a long history with both illegal and legal immigration. The first refugees started coming in 1834 from Prussia and the first migrants started in 1880s. Australia currently is facing lots of big decisions with migrants and refugees. Migrants have improved some parts of Australia much as population, migrant background, but some of them go in to detention centres. In World War II Australia had with the threat of a Japanese invasion. Australian prime minster John Curtin recognised that Australia did not have enough power or military strength to defend our self’s against the Japanese. Afforestation World War II ended, a new enemy threatened to invade Australia the communists. Australia prime minster recognised that we need a long term plan to make sure we could defend our self for more invasion. What Australia needed to do was populate or perish. The government in 1944 they began to discuss the plan to populate or perish to strengthen the industry. One of the first policy's where natural growth. They worked out that Australia needed an immediate boost so the solution was immigration. The first migrants arrived from Britain in September 1947 in Western Australia. Only certain skilled...
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