Overview

This topic is about a central question in Australia history: immigration. Immigration has been in the headlines since convicts first arrived in 1788 and today, close to one Australian in three was born overseas, and close to one Australian in two has a parent born overseas. As a settler-colony, Australia … For more content click the Read More button below.

Aims

This topic aims to:

  • Outline the place of immigration in Australian society since 1901 
  • Dissect how issues pertaining to race, gender and class have affected Australian migration policies in the twentieth and twenty first centuries
  • Discover and examine documentary sources of the subject and provide students with the opportunity to develop skills in archival research
  • Evaluate the shifts in policy on, and shifts in the composition of, Australian immigration 

Learning outcomes

On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
1.
Deconstruct the trends and outcomes of the modern Australian immigration experience
2.
Analyse the essential categories of data relating to Australian immigration
3.
Evaluate significant changes in Australian immigration policies in the period
4.
Assess debates in the historiography pertaining to Australian immigration