British Emigration to Australia / R.T. Appleyard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Appleyard, R.T., author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

British--Australia.

British.

Australia--Emigration and immigration.

Australia.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations, tables

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Each year nearly 30,000 Britons emigrate to Australia under the Assisted Passages Scheme. In return for near-free transport they are required only to stay a minimum of two years in Australia. Are these persons the ne'er-do-wells of British society, the unskilled misfits who have not been able to succeed in Britain? Do they base their decisions to emigrate on reliable information and study economic opportunities in other overseas countries before choosing Australia? To what extent do relatives and friends in Australia and the fact that it is a British country influence their decisions? Why do they leave their homeland- inequality of opportunity; a hostile class structure; the climate? What do they know about the country many of them will never leave and what do they hope to achieve by going there? In 1959 Dr Appleyard and a team of interviewers set out to find the answers to these questions. They conducted long interviews with nine hundred British families (and single persons) just before they sailed for Australia. This book contains the results of the interviews set in the background of post-war emigration to Australia, demographic and economic conditions in each country, government policies which have been formulated to meet these conditions, and actual differences in wage, social services, and the ownership of houses and consumer durables between the United Kingdom and Australia.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Tables

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART A. Emigration from the United Kingdom to Australia 1945 - 1958

1. The Demographic Background

2. United Kingdom and Australian Migration Policies

3. Some Socio-Economie Differentials

4. Emigration Mindedness

PART B. A Sample of Assisted Emigrants from the United Kingdom to Australia during 1959

5. Whence Come the Assisted British Migrants?

6. Motives for Emigration

7. Motives for Emigration

8. Conclusions

Appendix 1. Sampling Method and Interview Schedule

Appendix 2. Score Sheet for Part III of Interview Schedule: Notions of Australia

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Jun 2017)

ISBN:

1-4875-9940-4

1-4426-5432-5

OCLC:

992466238