On the world stage, Australia has been active as an open and inclusive immigrant country, and the number of immigrants to Australia has soared over the past decade, especially in the last year or two. I believe a lot of friends will think Melbourne morning rush train and tram is getting more and more crowded.
Official figures say Sydney and Melbourne are expected to become as crowded as London and Hong Kong.
What?! Isn't that life comfort going down a lot?!
Not only do we think so, but also the local people who have lived in this land for a long time, as well as the N-migrants who have emigrated early to their grandparents, what attitude is it to the new immigrants in their eyes?
Today, we use a set of official data to tell you whether Australia is qualified as an immigrant country.
1. Welcome to the latest Immigration reception report
The (Gallup Migrant Acceptance Index) report on the Global Immigration acceptance Index released the latest data.
Pollsters conducted face-to-face and telephone interviews in 140 countries, each gathering opinions from at least 1000 adults. The study took two years to complete.
In order to ensure sufficient sample size and the accuracy of the survey results, in a large population country such as China and India, the sample size remains at 2, 000 per 4, 000.
In this questionnaire, each interviewee was asked three questions:
Immigrants live in their country.
Immigrants become their neighbors.
Immigrants become their families.
Interviewees need to describe their feelings and thoughts in three orders of magnitude:
9: highest score, think immigration is a good thing
5 points: middle score, think that immigrants are not good or bad
1: minimum score, think immigration is a bad thing
Australia ended up sixth out of 140 countries with a score of 7.98 in the nine-point Immigration acceptance Index survey.
The top three are Iceland, New Zealand and Rwanda.
The Arctic Circle Iceland opens its doors to welcome fresh immigrants.
First place is Iceland, but although the immigration acceptance index is very high, will any friends want to emigrate to this cold country? It seems Iceland is a place where the weather is cold and warm.
In this survey, the average score of the world migrant acceptance index was 5.29;
In this way, Australia's score of 7.98 or far ahead of the average.
More than half (54%) of the sample said it was a good thing to have immigrants living in their country.
Regionally, Oceania (Australia and New Zealand) scored the highest 8.02, while the Commonwealth of Independent States scored the lowest, with 3.26.
According to the study, interviewees with religious backgrounds tend not to accept immigrants, but young people who live in cities and have higher academic qualifications are more likely to accept migrants.
In terms of income levels, the wealthiest people are also more likely to receive higher education-and stand out from all low-income groups in terms of immigration.
First-generation immigrants themselves are more receptive than native-born migrants.
Is there any difference between reading this official professional report and everyone's expectations? Do you think life here is completely accepted?
In fact, with the surge in immigration, Australians' attitudes towards immigration are becoming more and more subtle. On the one hand, migration can bring benefits to the country's economic growth, but on the other hand, the improvement of urban infrastructure seems to have not kept pace with the pace of population expansion, and excessive emigration has also put pressure on their employment and life, and so on. Some people seem to be slowly less welcome to emigration.
William Burke (William Bourke), Australia's president for sustainable development, said earlier this year that Australia's current immigration levels urgently needed to be cut sharply.
The current level of immigration has led to "lower safety at work, lower wage growth, less comfortable housing, overexploitation and severe environmental impact," Mr. Burke said.
At the same time, Australia's former Prime Minister Tony Abbott also called for a reduction in the number of immigrants.
3, the conclusion of the edito
In the face of this situation, it is well understood that immigration has become more and more difficult in the past two years, where residents complain that there is too much population and over-uneven population distribution, while many others want to stay here for better welfare and environment.
Can Australia go back to the era of freedom, openness, infinite tolerance?