WEST AUSTRALIANA Indigenous Aboriginal Immigrants

“A history of the policy of Assimilation in Australia as applied to Aboriginal people and non-English speaking immigrants from the 1950s to the 1970s”

With Spinning the Dream, multi-award-winning historian Anna Haebich re-evaluates the experience of Assimilation in Australia, providing a meticulously researched and masterfully written assessment of its implications for Australia’s Indigenous and ethnic minorities and for immigration and refugee policy. A re-evaluation of the experience of assimilation in Australia, providing an assessment of its implications for Australia’s indigenous and ehtnic minorities and for immigration and refugee policy.

• 460 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
• Biblography : p. 426-443.
• #280124
• Assimilation (Sociology) — Australia
• Minorities — Government policy — Australia
• Aboriginal Australians — Government policy — Australia
• Immigrants — Government policy — Australia
• Noongar / Nyungar / Nyungah people (W41) (WA SI50)
• Politics and Government – Civil rights and citizenship
• Race relations – Representation – Media
• Settlement and contacts – Ethnic groups, immigration and multiculturalism
• Government policy – Assimilation
• Australia — Cultural policy
• Australia — Social conditions — 1945-
• Australia
• Western Australia (WA)