add site
services
publishers
database
health videos
toolbar
stats
live show
health store
more stuff
JOIN/LOGIN
| advertise add site services publishers database health videos
| | about toolbar stats live show health store more stuff JOIN/LOGIN |
Immigration from Africa to Australia is only a recent phenomenon, with Europe and Asia traditionally being the largest sources of migration to Australia. In 2005-06 permanent settler arrivals to Australia included 4,000 South Africans and 3,800 Sudanese, constituting the sixth and seventh largest sources of migrants respectively.[2] There is no clear definition of what constitutes being an "African Australian". The Australian Bureau of Statistics records people according to their birthplace and their self-described ancestry, although aggregated data for Africa is split between "Sub-Saharan" and "North Africa and the Middle East"[3] African-Australians are not a homogenous group, but include people of diverse cultural, linguistic, religious, educational, and employment backgrounds. Migrants to Australia from the African continent in recent times are typically from a refugee background.[4] Convicts transported to Australia included Afro-Caribbeans.[5] One of the most notable was the convict tuned bushranger John Caesar who arrived with the First Fleet[6] and who had been a slave on a sugar plantation in his early life, most likely born in the West Indies.[7][8] However, immigration from Africa to Australia remained limited until the 1990s. Most Africans in Australia come from South Africa and are largely of Afrikaner and British descent. Other South Africans emigrate courtesy of skilled migration programs. Opportunities in Australia, as well as push factors such as rising crime, unemployment and complications arising from the Black Economic Empowerment policies in their home country, have prompted many South Africans to migrate. Earlier Australia had taken in Zimbabwe migrants who left under following the end of white minority rule[9] Recent conflicts in various parts of Africa, particularly around the Horn of Africa, have prompted people to migrate through humanitarian programs. Australia also has taken in refugees who left due to conflicts that emerged in the 1990s, such as in Sierra Leone, Burundi, Liberia, Congo, Rwanda and Sudan. [10]
[edit] DemographicsAt the 2006 Census, 248,605 residents declared that they were born in Africa.[1]
[edit] See also[edit] Notes
[edit] External links
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ↑ top of page ↑ | about thumbshots |
