There Goes the Neighbourhood! Australia’s Migrant Experience by Michael Dugan and Josef Szwarc

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Ex library copy with all external stickers removed. Stamps, barcode and borrower card pocket on inside. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has minor creasing. Small tears at tail right edge have been protected with book tape. Interior and binding are still very good.

An enthralling portrait of Australia's development during its first two hundred years, seen through the eyes of people arriving to make their homes here. It also looks at the new arrivals, those accepted and those rejected, from the view of people already established in the country.

The book presents a rich picture of a nation in the making, whose emergence owes more than most to the contributions of those who migrated to its shores.

The negative aspects of Australian immigration are not glossed over, and it looks at the terrible consequences for Australian Aboriginal people, the 19th-century Chinese experience, the white Australia policy and the migrant hostel riots of 1952, among its many topics. (book flap)