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Arriving

by Richard Broome

Series: The Victorians (1)

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Migration means more than a shift from one place to another. It is an awesome uprooting from one's birthplace, home and culture which requires difficult even painful adjustments from old ways to new ways. Over the last 150 years almost two million people have immigrated permanently to Victoria where they populated and changed the land and were affected by it. Long before this, unknown numbers of Aborigines also moved here. Arriving tells the story of the various waves of newcomers to Victoria and explains why and how they came and what became of them once here. It is a history of individual experience, of the fortunes of various ethnic groups and of immigrants en masse. It also describes how the newcomers interacted with those already here. Arriving is thus a story of anxieties and difficulties as well as bright hopes and successes. This book about the lives of ordinary people is aimed at all Victorians and is written in a lively and readable style. It is the first comprehensive account of the Victorian migration story, spanning the past 50,000 years. It is a theme that is relevant to us all. -- Cover.… (more)
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Victoria - History; Immigration; Gold Rush - Victoria; Aborigines - Victoria
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Migration means more than a shift from one place to another. It is an awesome uprooting from one's birthplace, home and culture which requires difficult even painful adjustments from old ways to new ways. Over the last 150 years almost two million people have immigrated permanently to Victoria where they populated and changed the land and were affected by it. Long before this, unknown numbers of Aborigines also moved here. Arriving tells the story of the various waves of newcomers to Victoria and explains why and how they came and what became of them once here. It is a history of individual experience, of the fortunes of various ethnic groups and of immigrants en masse. It also describes how the newcomers interacted with those already here. Arriving is thus a story of anxieties and difficulties as well as bright hopes and successes. This book about the lives of ordinary people is aimed at all Victorians and is written in a lively and readable style. It is the first comprehensive account of the Victorian migration story, spanning the past 50,000 years. It is a theme that is relevant to us all. -- Cover.

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