Migration in Australia

Sudan is the largest country in Africa and is located northeast of the continent. Since independence in 1956, it has been devastated by drought, famine and war. Regular governments have been conducted between non-Muslims, black African Sudanese, and Muslim Arab Sudanese over access to power and resources, mostly in military-controlled and frequent disputes.

Between 1997 and 2007, more than 20,000 people born in Sudan immigrated to Australia. There were also about 2,200 ethnic Sudanese born to Sudanese parents in refugee camps in Egypt or Kenya during this period, who immigrated to Australia.

Since 2001, most Sudanese migrants have come to Australia through humanitarian programs, with more than eighty-eight percent of Sudanese descent entering Australia as part of the program. These settlers can be further divided into Refugee and Special Humanitarian Program (SHP) components. Refugee entrants are granted visas on humanitarian grounds only and may not have any family or friends in Australia, while SHP entrants are offered by Australian citizens, permanent residents or an agency based in Australia. From 2001 to 200 Australia, fourteen percent of Sudanese humanitarian arrivals in Australia came as SHP entrants. Sudanese immigrants who arrived between 2001 and 2006 usually settled in Victoria (34%), New South Wales (24%) or Queensland (14%).

Australia accepts refugees from the world’s displaced population every year as part of the country’s human migration flow and currently it migrates to Australia around 8-10%. A minimum of 18,750 people have been set to eat 2018-19.

Although they have very different characteristics than the total population of Australia with a relatively low percentage of total migration and generally need different services, for example, they are more likely to be in a family group than skilled immigrants and less likely to have a high rate of English proficiency.

From time to time we receive requests from our clients for specific population groups consisting of refugees. Although the census does not ask about the status of refugees, it is made up mostly of migrant refugees from certain countries, unfortunately often related to where there is significant conflict around the world.

One core group displaced by Sudan’s civil war for the past decade or so was South Sudanese, although in recent years there has been a growing focus on migrants from places such as Bhutan and Myanmar.

This week, we received the following investigation:

“We plan to conduct family skills education activities for African families in Perth and we are also in Melbourne. I am having a hard time finding the number of Sudanese and South Sudanese in the population of Perth. We know that in the 2016 census of 2016, most South Sudanese said they were born in Sudan, because South Sudan was only one country in 2011. What will happen to that information when the number of a group is very small? “

This is a great question that goes to the center of the data we capture from people in newly formed countries.

South Sudan is the most widely recognized nation in the world. It was formed in 2011 outside of Sudan. ABS has created a division for South Sudan in both the 2011 and 2011 censuses, so it is possible to get information on the countries that had ‘South Sudan’ as their homeland.

This, of course, would allow some people born in South Sudan to establish “Sudan” as their birthplace (they existed in the country at the time of their birth). We see the same thing with identifying “Yugoslavia” as their birthplace, a country that no longer exists. In the census, people identified as “Yugoslavia” are placed in the “Southeastern Europe not further defined” category.