Women are like blue beautiful and fragile, but worthless once damaged or broken. Unidentified Canadian emigrationist, writing in the 1890s.\nBetween 1860 and 1900, nearly 100,000 single working-class women emigrated from Britain to the Australian colonies. They were the largest single category of...
A“White Australia” policy was introduced in the early 1900’s, significantly influencing views of immigration. The common belief of society was that only people from Europe, and preferably Britain and Ireland, were considered to be ‘good enough’ for immigration to Australia. People from all ...
In fact, over half of immigrants living in Melbourne who arrived in Australia between the start of 2016 and the census on 9 August 2016 were studying, and more than a third who arrived in the ten years before the census were studying. So what if we control for how recently someone immigr...
As a diverse, rich, multicultural nation, Australia consists of multiple regional and global links that correlate to other nations in the world. Migration being one of them. Throughout history, Migrants have become a part of Australia’s population and have aided the development of our country ...
Entries into the U.S. dropped. The flow to Australia, being mostly British in origin, dried up. However, Canadian migration climbs above their migration mark. In each country opportunities for getting cheap land or quickly finding a job has became scarce. There is ...
other strong counter-urbanizing countries (the United States, Australia, Denmark, the United Kingdom). The other ages show losses from the city cores and gains in commuter towns and the periphery, though the balance between these two varies from group to group. The strong gains of the ...
and to Canada and Australia, 100,000 apiece. A unique migration known as the “brain drain,” which is associated with the luring of highly skilled specialists from one country to another, began in the 1930’s, when the USA had a monopoly on the opportunity to select refugee scientists fro...
As workers migrate from Latin America to the United States, Africa to Europe, or Southeast Asia to Australia, there is a global shift in labor supply from labor-abundant to labor-scarce economies. Absent dynamic adjustment in capital or technology, labor flows tend to lift wages in sending cou...
Their results indicate that age at immigration disfavors the earnings of middle-aged and older immigrants. There are evidence on this from the US (Friedberg 1992), Canada (Schaafsma and Sweetman 2001), and Australia (Wilkins 2003). A commonly asked question in the literature on immigrant ...
In more modern times the hunger-stricken peoples of European lands have come to the new parts of the world, to America, North and South; to Australia and South Africa; from Russia they have pushed into Asia, while Japan lays hold of outlying islands where congested population may find room...