Asians in Australia

The Asian migration controversy of the 1980s in Australia was reminiscent of that a century earlier. However, as this study of the "new" Asian migration of the 1980s illustrates, the circumstances and characteristics have been vastly different. This study places Asian immigration in a broader international context in which the emigration to Australia is part of a wider pattern of population movements with diplomatic ramifications and economic implications for both Australia and the emigrants' homeland. It provides key Australian comparative data to set against the extensive Asian emigration in the 1980s to the USA, Canada and New Zealand.