The Migrant Follows the Tourist

Australian Immigration Publicity After the Second World War

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ID12649977
AuthorsJustine Greenwood (0000-0002-2563-2405, The University of Sydney, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume11
Issue3
Pages74-96
Publication date2014-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory Australia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1449-0854 • E-ISSN: 1833-4881
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14490854.2014.11668532
OpenAlexW1496722245
LanguageEN
Citations received5

At the end of the Second World War, the Australian federal government’s Department of Information began producing international publicity aimed at attracting migrants. Previous research has considered this publicity solely as a response to the needs of the immigration program. Such an approach fails to register that governments had previously linked immigration and tourist publicity operations. This article shows that immigration publicity was not produced in isolation but rather as part of, and influenced by, a broader international publicity campaign also concerned with attracting tourists. The desire for a coordinated image, however, was tested by the constraints of the White Australia Policy. Tensions also appeared when the government struggled to balance the aims of attracting and informing prospective migrants. The difficulties the Department of Information faced in producing publicity that served both of these purposes remain unresolved for an Australian government that today still finds itself attempting to align multiple images.This article has been peer-reviewed

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