Migration to Australia: 21st Century

Enhanced by immigration case studies, 21st Century explores migration to Australia during that time period. The book explains that Australia is now one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world due to major changes in Australia’s immigration policy during the last twenty years. It explores the reasons why people migrate and the impact of increased migration on Australia’s first peoples – the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

• Introduction
• Exploring Push-and-Pull Factors
• Cultural Diversity
• Aboriginal Peoples
• Torres Strait Islander Peoples
• Meet Masoomeh
• Human Rights Issues
• Meet Andre
• Asian Immigration
• International Students
• Changing Patterns
• Looking to the Future
• Timeline
• Glossary
• Index
• Find Out More

Features include:

• Clear and concise text accompanied by contemporary and historical photographs
• Fact boxes providing extra information related to the text
• A timeline of key events
• A glossary explaining new words and phrases
• An index.

Written by a wide range of experienced children’s authors specialising in history at primary level.

Suitable for upper primary students.

Migration to Australia explores migration to the Australian continent, from the very first settlement many thousands of years ago, to subsequent arrivals. It details the colonisation of the 18th century, the steady increase of British free settlers in the 19th, and the waves of migration from different parts of the world in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Selected sample pages from Migration to Australia: 21st Century.