Answer any two of the following three questions. Post your responses are comments below.
Outline ONE change in the lives of migrants in post-World War II Australia. (5)
Explain how a historian could use sources to investigate the experiences of a migrant group in the post-WWII period. (5)
The rights and freedoms of Aboriginal people, migrants and women have changed during the 20th century. For Migrants, describe a change. What caused the change? What were the effects of the change? (15)
Snowy Mountain Scheme
ReplyDelete- From its inception in 1949 until its completion in 1972, more than 100000 people over thirty countries came to work on the project, with 70% being migrants.
- The work was hard and dangerous and 150 workers were killed in construction accidents
- The snowy mountains scheme was important for Australia as; it gave work and a livelihood to thousands of migrants who came to Australia after WWII, it was the first example of multiculturalism in Australia where people of different races and cultures worked together, it was one of the great feats of engineering in the post-war world, it brought significant economic benefits to this part of Australia, it gave Australia a sense of pride that the nation could undertake such a project and complete it so successfully.
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ReplyDeleteOne change in the lives of Italian migrants was the way they were treated by the Anglo-Australian people. The Italian migrants were discriminated upon and call derogatory and racial slurs. This is evident in the ‘recollections of Elvira Ubaldi’, when it says ‘As I grew up I faced a climate of suspicion and disrespect from Anglo-Australia’. Also when it says ‘my dark skin made me out as a dago’. The mistreatment of the Italian migrants is also shown in M. Loh ‘with courage in their cases’ when it says ‘you applied for a job ..... your qualifications would be there but the moment you said you were Italian or Catholic it was no job’ and when it says ‘we were straight out ..... Dagos.’ This text also shows how the Italian migrants felt as a result of this when it says ‘mum feels she doesn’t quite belong anywhere.’
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A historian can use sources to investigate the experiences of a migrant group in the post world war II period by going through past books and journals that recount the experiences of that migrant group. If historians were to look at migrants from Italy, they could use M. Loh book ‘with courage in their cases’ and the ‘recollections of Elvira Ubaldi’ from the Australian Donna
The ‘recollections of Elvira Ubaldi’ talk about how the Italian migrants were discriminated. For example it says ‘As I grew up I faced a climate of suspicion and disrespect from Anglo-Australia’. The discrimination of Italian migrants is also shown in ‘with courage in their cases’, because quoted from the text ‘you applied for a job ..... your qualifications would be there but the moment you said you were Italian or Catholic it was no job.’
There is also racism for instance in ‘with courage in their cases’ it says ‘we were straight out ..... Dagos.’ This is also shown in the ‘recollections of Elvira Ubaldi’ when it says ‘my dark skin made me out as a dago’.
Also in the ‘recollections of Elvira Ubaldi’ it shows how the Italians were segregated from the rest of the community. This is shown when it says ‘Italians in my world at this time tended to create their own little sub-communities and stick together’.
One of the changes for Italian migrants was that as a lot of them were growing up they faced a climate of suspicion and disrespect from Anglo- Australia. The Italians migrants were discriminated for one of the facts was because the Italian migrants just can’t speak English but they were Catholic as well, because.
ReplyDeleteA lot of the Anglo- Australian were Anglican as it in paragraph 3 a Italian migrants states “ your qualifications would be there but the moment you said you were Italian or Catholic, it was no job.
When he says in paragraph 1 “ My frizzy hair made me ugly, my dark skin marked me out as ’dago’ and the olive and garlic I ate made me smell. As it states in the text it shows the hardship Italian migrants faced in the 1950s and how they felt from all of this when it says “ It difficult time for my mother because by this time she had given birth to my second brother and, with 3 young children in a strange country”
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A historian can use sources to investigate the experiences of a migrant group in the post WWII by going threw past journals and books to help recount the past experiences of the migrants. If for example historians were to investigate the migrants from Italy they would have used Recollections of Elvira Ubaldi talks about the problems facing the Italian migrants in the 1950s. For eg the source says “faced a climate of suspicion and disrespect from Anglo- Australia“. As it says in Courage in Their Cases it really help shows how badly they were discriminated as it states “ your qualifications would be there but the moment you said you were Italian or Catholic, it was no job. A historian could use this to investigate the experiences of a migrant group in the post WWII. They was also raciest discrimination to the Italian Migrants in the Recollections of Elvira Ubaldi “ My frizzy hair made me ugly, my dark skin marked me out as ’dago’ and the olive and garlic I ate made me smell. And in the it also says how they were isolated by from other community. This is has be shown when it is stated in Recollections of Elvira Ubaldi “Italians in my world at this time tended to create their own little sub- communities and stick together.
Outline ONE change in the lives of migrants in post-World War II Australia.
ReplyDeleteThe discrimination faced by Italian migrants is one of the changes that many migrants from different countries have experienced during the post- World War ll. Elbira Ubaldi, one of the many Italian migrants described her life growing up as being faced up against ‘ a climate of suspicion and disrespect from Anglo- Australia’, in the book ‘ Recollections of Elvira Ubaldi’. She was also discriminated in school; she was taught that her fuzzy Italian hair made her ugly, her dark skin marked her as a ‘dago’- a word that was used to offensively call an Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese, and that garlic that she ate made her smell. In the book ‘With Courage in Their Cases’ it also recounts one of the experience of an Italian how recalled how they tried to be accepted in the community by was still treated horribly despite changing her first name to, Jean, an English name – ‘To try to be accepted I called myself Jean... after school you’d go out of the school gate but the moment we turned the corner there was always someone waiting, some to pink on us other kids’.
Explain how a historian could use sources to investigate the experiences of a migrant group in the post-WWII period.
A historian can use sources to investigate the experiences of a migrant group in the post-WW ll period by reading and researching through information such as autobiographies that are written, history books written by others, first hand written notes or letters, or watch documentaries that explores and recounts the experiences of these particular migrant group that the historian is researching on. ‘Recollections of Elvira Ubaldi’ is an example of a source that is filled with information about the recount of an Italian migrant who was heavily discriminated by the Anglo Australians. She retells how she grew up facing a climate of suspicion and disrespect from them everywhere she was; even at school.
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One Change in migrants was Italian migrants during the 50’s they were the new migrants rather than just from Ireland and Britain, also England. They experienced things such as job discrimination and racism but racism was the most commonly upheld factor during the change of migrants. “My frizzy hair made me ugly, my dark skin marked me as a dago”. These were the things learnt at school this was some racism was taken by migrants. Another recollection from M. Hoh,”to try to be accepted, i called myself Jean”, that wasn’t foreign but i still had an Italian surname. After school you’d go out of the school but the moment we turned the corner there was always someone waiting, someone to pick on us other kids. “We were straight dagos, this was a change because kids were teased because they weren’t white”.
ReplyDeleteA historian could use sources to investigate the experience of a migrant by accessing historical services on the internet or a library by accessing books from that era.
ANTHONY TRENESKI
Outline ONE change in the lives of migrants in post-World War II Australia.
ReplyDeleteDiscrimination to Italian migrants was one that also many other migrants that tried to migrate to Australia experienced after WW2. Elbira Ubaldi was one of the many Italians that faced growing up against ‘a climate of suspicion and disrespect from Anglo-Australia’, in her book ‘Recollections of Elvira Ubaldi’. She was discriminated at school, and was taught that her fuzzy hair and dark skin made her ugly and a ‘dago’ a term that is used to discriminate Italians.
Explain how a historian could use sources to investigate the experiences of a migrant group in the post-WWII period.
A historian use sources to investigate what happened to groups like migrants and veterans in post WW2 by reading through things that they have left behind, like diaries or journals and recounts about other people’s achievements and troubles. The ‘Recollections of Elvira Ubaldi’ is also an e.g. of a course that was filled with info from written recounts of an Italian migrant who was also discriminated by the Anglo Australians.
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SIR!! is that acv homework due on monday or week 3 because alot of people have been telling me week 3
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