By John Powell
Encyclopedia of North American Immigration is a superb, entire one-volume encyclopedia such as greater than three hundred A-to-Z entries on occasions, subject matters, humans, areas, and laws regarding immigration. This worthwhile connection with a favored and ever-changing subject offers elementary and concise details at the teams, rules, and occasions that outlined the world's maximum migration of peoples and Read more...
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In 1901, Australia became a commonwealth and immediately barred almost all “coloreds” from entry. Australia became fully independent of Great Britain in 1937. Since 1973, Australia’s immigration policy has been nonracial. About one-third of immigrants in 2000 were Asian. Australians usually immigrated to North America in pursuit of economic opportunity, beginning with more than 1,000 during the first years after the CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH (1848). In 1851, however, most returned when gold was discovered in western Australia.
Of the 22,130 Austrian immigrants in Canada in 2001, about 62 percent (13,645) arrived prior to 1961. Further Reading Engelmann, Frederick, Manfred Prokop, and Franz Szabo, eds. A History of the Austrian Migration to Canada. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1996. Goldner, Franz. Austrian Emigration, 1938–1945. Trans. Edith Simons. New York: F. Ungar, 1979. Pick, Hella. Guilty Victim: Austria from the Holocaust to Haider. New York: I. B. Tauris, 2000. Schlag, Wilhelm. ” In Österreich und die angelsächsische Welt.
Almost 90 percent of Bangladeshi Canadians live in urban centers throughout Ontario and Quebec. 23 24 BARBADIAN IMMIGRATION Bangladesh occupies 51,600 square miles of South Asia between 21 and 27 degrees north latitude and is almost entirely surrounded by India, to the north, east, and west. The Bay of Bengal lies to the south and Myanmar to the southeast. The land is mostly flat and lies in a wet tropical climate zone dominated by the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers. In 2002, the population was estimated at 131,269,860, with more than 12 million in the urban area of Dhaka.