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AustralianImmigration Law

a white, Christian environment. In December 1901, the Immigration Restriction Act was formed and stayed until 1959 (Jayaraman 2000:139). Thus the White Australia Policy was started. Formally, the goal of the policy was to base national identity on British heritage and to deal with diversity though assimilation (Castles and Zappala 1999:274).Australia is a country composed almost entirely of immigrants. Australia has always tried to attract people to move to their country, but had strict guidelines under the White Australia Policy in order to do so (Chapman and Iredale 1993:359). This policy stated that anyone not of white-European heritage would not be beneficial to the nation as a whole and would therefore not be accepted as an immigrant to the nation. It was also known as the restrictive immigration policy under the commonwealth immigration restriction act of 1901 (Jupp 1995:207). If a person was a white European, they then had to pass a qualification test. Sometimes this was a literacy test, sometimes a skills test. They wanted to see if their immigrants overseas qualifications would meet the standards of Australias workers (Chapman and Iredale 1993:359). According to A.C. Palfreeman only those whom the officer intended to exclude were given the test and the European language chosen was one which the immigrant could not possibly know. After the abolishment of the Immigration Restriction Act the language test was done away with (Jayaraman 2000:139).Australia needs skilled immigrants to perform specialized labor (Chapman and Iredale 1993:361). Populate or perish has been the motto for the country whose current population is still merely 17 million (Australia1994). After 1945, a massive immigration plan was launched to build the nation. For a long time the majority of the immigrants were white European, until the end of the White Australia Policy and a large amount of Asian immigrants entered the country (Castles and Zappa...

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