Post World War 2 British Migration To Australia
. The most pampered and protected of the intake 5746Mb. The first major post-war wave of migration started with displaced persons.
Contemporary students of historical writing of the migration experience have virtually written British migrants out of the history of this era by such unsubstantiated. Courtesy National Archives of Australia. The first major post-war wave of migration started with displaced persons.
The Australian government had made certain that migration was an attractive prospect by introducing the Assisted Passage Migration Scheme in 1945.
In 1948 parliament legislated to create Australian citizenship previously Australians were considered British citizens. The Displaced Persons who came to Australia were Latvians and Estonians the Balts Poles Ukrainians Hungarians Czechs and Yugoslavs. The thesis seeks to find evidence to support the assumption that British migrants were the pampered and protected of the post-World War Two intake of migrants. Australias fear of invasion was once again heightened at the end of World War 2 and Populate or Perish became a common catchcry.
