Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2009
Titel der Quelle:
Patterns of Prejudice
Angaben zur Quelle:
43,5 (2009) 497-518
Schlagwort(e):
United HIAS Service
;
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
;
Holocaust survivors
;
World War, 1939-1945 Refugees
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
Kurzfassung:
Discusses Australia's long tradition of racist immigration policies, directed also against Jewish immigration. Despite some pressure exerted on its government at the Evian Conference and on the part of the British in 1938, only 9,000 Jewish refugees were admitted to the country in 1938-45. In 1945-46 Australia revised its immigration policy, and in 1947-50 admitted 170,000 DPs. Even at this stage, Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell, fearing anti-refugee hysteria against Jewish immigration, introduced discriminatory restrictions against Jewish immigrants, e.g. a 25% Jewish quota for any ship sailing to Australia from Europe. He also prohibited the International Refugee Organization from supporting immigration to Australia of individual Jewish survivors based on family reunion. Only 17,000 Jews arrived in Australia in 1946-54 from Europe and Shanghai. Examines the reactions of the Hebrew Immigration Aid Society and American Joint Distribution Committee, which became partners in the "Australian Immigration Project" and whose leadership tried to secure more equal terms for the admission of Jewish DPs to Australia.
DOI:
10.1080/00313220903339071
URL:
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