Transcript Kein Folientitel - Gymnasium Ulricianum Aurich

Australia’s Immigration Policy and its Attempts to
Keep out Refugees
Info about Australia
- 20 times larger than Germany
- A quarter of Germany’s population
- 7 states; Western Australia is as big as Western Europe
- annual economical growth of 4 % since 1990
- GDP has been rising 3.4% on average since 1998
- >6 mio immigrants from 200 countries in the last 60 years
History of Australia
1770s - White Settlers <->Aborigines
-> about 300,000 - 1,000,000 Aborigines
1778 - Sydney was founded
-> first prison settlement
1850s - Gold Rush
1911 - Canberra became the captial city
White Australia Policy ( Background)
1780s - American Revolution ended
Convicts were shipped to Australia
1850s - Gold Rush
Europeans and Chinese settled
Economic Boom
Increasing foreign population
1901 - common immigration policy
White Australia Policy ( 1880s-1950s)
Immigration Restriction Act 1901
- limit immigration to Australia
- enable deportation of illegals
- Dictation Test
- any non-European citizen
- 50 word long dictation
Abolition of the Policy
- reluctant acceptance of black US troops
- Colombo Plan
Current Immigration Policy
- based on Migration Act of 1958
-> to change international image of the “White Australia Policy“
- any applicant must satisfy health and character requirements
2 ways to get a permanent visa
- migration program
- humanitarian program
Current Immigration Policy
Migration Program
- skill migration stream
-> workers with particular skills
- family stream
-> partner, child, parent, other family
- special eligibility stream
-> distinguished talents (sportsmen or scientists)
Current Immigration Policy
Humanitarian Program
Offshore resettlement program
- from overseas
Onshore protection
- temporary visa has expired or
arrived illegally
- about 50.000 a year
- “queue jumpers“
Onshore aplicants + grants by origin
Citizenship
No. applications
Citizenship
No. granted
China, People's Republic of
728
Iran
106
India
403
China, People's Republic of
77
Malaysia
208
Iraq
53
Indonesia
193
Afghanistan
41
Iraq
144
Russian Federation
36
Fiji
125
Korea, Republic of
118
Colombia
32
Sri Lanka
118
Bangladesh
30
Bangladesh
107
Sri Lanka
30
Vietnam
99
Zimbabwe
27
Other
1405
Other
356
Total
3648
Total
788
Settler Arrivals, by Eligibility
Uninviting Immigration Policy for Refugees
About 20 mio refugees worldwide
-> Australia hosts 13.000
“Queue Jumpers”
-> fear being exposed to capture if applying trough official channels
-> UN International Refugee Convention acknowledges that anyone
fearing persecution is entitled to seek refuge, even without documents
Detention Centers
- for illegal immigrants
- investigation of applicant’s status
- human rights groups + government’s own advisory body has
expressed concern
Detention Centers in Australia
New Arrangements to Strengthen Border Control
- external territories excised
- terms of imprisonment for people smugglers
- class actions in migration processes prohibited
- ...
-> Prime Minister (John Howard)
wants to hold on to its policy
The End