Chifley liked them Blond’
Dp Immigrants for Australia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12650338 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jayne Persian (0000-0003-0651-4099, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 80-101 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Australia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1449-0854 • E-ISSN: 1833-4881 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14490854.2015.11668571 |
| OpenAlex | W1877996783 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
170,000 ‘displaced persons’ (DPs) — predominantly Central and Eastern Europeans—arrived in Australia between 1947 and 1952 as refugees sponsored by the International Refugee Organization (IRO). This article traces the political evolution of the decision by Arthur Calwell’s new Department of Immigration not only to accept, but to actively recruit, displaced persons, as well as examining the Department’s racial and political standards of acceptability in relation to this first mass non-British migration program to Australia. It argues that whiteness, potential as workers and, to a lesser extent, anti-communism were the main criteria applied in judging the suitability of DPs for settlement in Australia.This article has been peer reviewed
Communism · Ethnology · Immigration · Mass migration · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Relation (database · Settlement (finance · Sociology · Australian History and Society · Gender Studies · Law · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,78 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2019 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |