In the response to this circumstance, the rules and regulations established in 1951 via a document called the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). These rules and regulations included the definition of the term “refugee” and set forth laws governing the control and resettlement of displaced people. Despite the law was law set by UNHCR about refugee resettlement, it argued that that racial component and restrictions were important factors in the progress of the classification and selection of refugees resettlement in Australia in the 1950s. Particularly, the middle-class Balts considered as “elite of the refugee problem” and European DPs were “of good human stock” while the African and Asian seen as unwanted and heterogeneous to Australian society. Moreover, Australia was traditionally racist nation, this proven by the case of a hundred of Japanese and Chinese women married Australia soldiers failed to meet the immigration policy and forced to separate with their spouses overseas. This was the impact of the Immigration Restriction Act also know as the White Australia Policy established in 1901 by the first Federal Government of Australia to restrict the non White immigrate to
In the response to this circumstance, the rules and regulations established in 1951 via a document called the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). These rules and regulations included the definition of the term “refugee” and set forth laws governing the control and resettlement of displaced people. Despite the law was law set by UNHCR about refugee resettlement, it argued that that racial component and restrictions were important factors in the progress of the classification and selection of refugees resettlement in Australia in the 1950s. Particularly, the middle-class Balts considered as “elite of the refugee problem” and European DPs were “of good human stock” while the African and Asian seen as unwanted and heterogeneous to Australian society. Moreover, Australia was traditionally racist nation, this proven by the case of a hundred of Japanese and Chinese women married Australia soldiers failed to meet the immigration policy and forced to separate with their spouses overseas. This was the impact of the Immigration Restriction Act also know as the White Australia Policy established in 1901 by the first Federal Government of Australia to restrict the non White immigrate to