Part A
All immigrants have a reason, if not many, to leave their homes and all that they know, these reasons are ‘push factors’. Push factors can be things such as lack of jobs available in their area, poverty, war, political and religious persecution, civil strife and environmental issues. Moving countries and away from everything and everyone they know can be terrifying for immigrants. It’s a change in lifestyle, moving away to somewhere where you know no one, have no guaranteed job and no place to live. Prior to 1975, the numbers of Vietnamese coming to Victoria were low. These numbers included orphans from the Vietnam War, Vietnamese wives of Australian servicemen and tertiary students. When Vietnam-born Victorians were first counted separately …show more content…
For Vietnamese immigrants, pull factors included a safer home, a possibility at a stable job and having rights and freedoms. Having the opportunity for a better life would have driven the Vietnamese people to migrate in hope of a better life and not only did the push factors push them out of their own country, but the pull factors pulled them into Australia. Leaving the only home a person has ever had would be extremely scary, especially not knowing what was going to happen or whether they were making the right choice, but taking the risk and changing lifestyle definitely had to be affected by the opportunities of moving. The Vietnamese immigrants started majorly migrating to Australia when their country was taken over by the communist government at the end of the Vietnam War. When living under communist government didn’t turn out to be so great, the Vietnamese were looking for a better place to stay and live and found Australia to be a better option with lots of pull factors drawing them in like better living, better paid jobs, more work, no overpopulation and a better …show more content…
A third immigration peak in the late 1980s seems to have been mainly due to Australia's family reunion scheme. Over 90,000 refugees were processed, and entered Australia during this time. The ‘Orderly Departure Program’ (ODP) was a program to permit immigration of Vietnamese to the United States of America and other countries. I t was made in 1979, not long after the Vietnamese migrated to Australia after the communist government took charge in their country. The point of the ODP was to provide a way for Vietnamese to leave their home safely and in an orderly style to be moved and settled somewhere safer, with a better lifestyle and environment. Prior to the ODP tens of thousands of ‘boat people’ were fleeing Vietnam monthly by boat and turning up on the shores of neighboring countries. Under the ODP from 1980 until 1997, 623,509 Vietnamese were relocated in other countries, living safely. After the ODP was created in 1979 and helped many Vietnamese wanting to move overseas and away from their dangerous homelands, and the first Vietnamese migration to Australia influenced for the program to be created and still today, many are influencing
All immigrants have a reason, if not many, to leave their homes and all that they know, these reasons are ‘push factors’. Push factors can be things such as lack of jobs available in their area, poverty, war, political and religious persecution, civil strife and environmental issues. Moving countries and away from everything and everyone they know can be terrifying for immigrants. It’s a change in lifestyle, moving away to somewhere where you know no one, have no guaranteed job and no place to live. Prior to 1975, the numbers of Vietnamese coming to Victoria were low. These numbers included orphans from the Vietnam War, Vietnamese wives of Australian servicemen and tertiary students. When Vietnam-born Victorians were first counted separately …show more content…
For Vietnamese immigrants, pull factors included a safer home, a possibility at a stable job and having rights and freedoms. Having the opportunity for a better life would have driven the Vietnamese people to migrate in hope of a better life and not only did the push factors push them out of their own country, but the pull factors pulled them into Australia. Leaving the only home a person has ever had would be extremely scary, especially not knowing what was going to happen or whether they were making the right choice, but taking the risk and changing lifestyle definitely had to be affected by the opportunities of moving. The Vietnamese immigrants started majorly migrating to Australia when their country was taken over by the communist government at the end of the Vietnam War. When living under communist government didn’t turn out to be so great, the Vietnamese were looking for a better place to stay and live and found Australia to be a better option with lots of pull factors drawing them in like better living, better paid jobs, more work, no overpopulation and a better …show more content…
A third immigration peak in the late 1980s seems to have been mainly due to Australia's family reunion scheme. Over 90,000 refugees were processed, and entered Australia during this time. The ‘Orderly Departure Program’ (ODP) was a program to permit immigration of Vietnamese to the United States of America and other countries. I t was made in 1979, not long after the Vietnamese migrated to Australia after the communist government took charge in their country. The point of the ODP was to provide a way for Vietnamese to leave their home safely and in an orderly style to be moved and settled somewhere safer, with a better lifestyle and environment. Prior to the ODP tens of thousands of ‘boat people’ were fleeing Vietnam monthly by boat and turning up on the shores of neighboring countries. Under the ODP from 1980 until 1997, 623,509 Vietnamese were relocated in other countries, living safely. After the ODP was created in 1979 and helped many Vietnamese wanting to move overseas and away from their dangerous homelands, and the first Vietnamese migration to Australia influenced for the program to be created and still today, many are influencing