Nevertheless, there has been a gradual relaxation of restrictions of non-Europeans immigration policy since 1950 and also these non-European migrants have their legal status improved (Inglis, 1972). Hence, Chinese were permitted to migrant to Australia as permanent settlers who can own Australian citizenship legally. By 1966, the occupations of Chinese changed impressively, and the most popular occupations among the Chinese were in the service sector and as well as professional occupations (Inglis, 1972). However, for those new arrivals who cannot speak English quite well, they more prefer to turn to their countrymen who migrated here for a long time to get recommendations for a job (Inglis, 1972). Moreover, many Chinese started to run their …show more content…
By the mid 1980s, Chinese cafes were a feature of the Australian suburban and country town landscape. There were 7,000 cafes operated by Chinese in NSW. In the nation’s capital, Canberra, there were 6,080 Chinese cafes, 200 in Melbourne and 300 in Sydney. In Adelaide one-eighth of the Chinese population were employed in Chinese cafes (Chin, 1988).
During 2008-2009, China was the fourth largest source of new immigrants to Australia, behind Britain, New Zealand and India (DIAC 2010). More recently, China has become Australia’s top source of migrants with a record of 6350 people arriving from China in the four months to October 2004 (BBC News 2009). According to the 2006 Census, there were 206,600 China-born Chinese living in Australia, representing an increase of 44.7% compared with the figures in the 2001 Census (DIAC 2010). For employed Chinese, the top five occupations in the financial year of 2008-2009 are: accountant, computing professional, cook, registered nurse and translator (DIAC
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In 2013, China is the third source of migrants to Australia. People born in China accounts for1.8% of Australia’s total population (ABS 2013). At this time, Chinese migrants have various occupations ranging from professionals to trade workers (Pulla & Woods, 2014).
There have been a number of important Australian studies that provide insight into Chinese migrants entrepreneurs in Australia. Level-Tracy et al. (1991) surveyed 104 Chinese who run restaurants, do wholesale trade, property and business services and health in Brisbane and Sydney in the late 1980s. In addition, Collins and various colleagues also carried out three surveys of ethnic entrepreneurs-including Chinese entrepreneurs-in