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Milk and honey-- but no gold : postwar migration to Western Australia, 1945-1964 / Nonja Peters.
LIBRA DU374 .P38 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peters, Nonja.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Immigrants--Australia--Western Australia.
- Immigrants.
- Minorities--Australia--Western Australia.
- Minorities.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Western Australia--Emigration and immigration.
- Western Australia.
- Australia--History--20th century.
- Australia.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Nedlands, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press, 2001.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Newcomers to the Promised Land 1
- Chapter 1 Immigration
- A Lasting Investment 7
- Why Australia Wanted Immigrants 7
- Who Was Wanted and Who Came 14
- 'Conditioning' Australians to Accept Non-British Immigrants 21
- Chapter 2 Australia
- A New Future 25
- Why the Displaced Persons Came 25
- Why the Emigrants from Western and Southern Europe and Britain Came 44
- Chapter 3 Selection, Transportation and Arrival 59
- The Paper Trail 59
- The Process Endured by Displaced Persons 62
- The Procedure for Other Immigrants 72
- The Voyage Out 80
- Land Ahoy 102
- Onward Bound 111
- Chapter 4 Definitely not the Ritz: Immigrant Accommodation 117
- Immigrant Camps in Western Australia 117
- Bedding Down 121
- The 'Grand Plan' 129
- Cold Nights, Burning Days and All Manner of Creepy-crawlies 135
- Nosh at the Immigrant Mess 142
- The Cash Economy 148
- In Sickness and in Health 152
- Immigrant Children and Camp Life 157
- Complaints and Conflicts 163
- Making Their Own Fun 167
- Chapter 5 Working It Out: Procuring Employment 173
- The Australian Government's 'Measure of Control' 173
- Displaced Persons 176
- European Agreement and British Assisted-passage Immigrants 202
- Sponsored Newcomers 216
- Chapter 6 We Now Call Australia Home 227
- Settling Down 227
- Being Homesick 243
- Clubbing Together 248
- Measuring Up 259
- Becoming Australianized 265
- Returning Home for a Visit
- or for Good 279
- New Citizens of Australia 284
- 1 Immigration Statistics 292
- 2 Immigrant Accommodation in Western Australia 301.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-327) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1876268565
- OCLC:
- 48958633
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