Impact Of Assimilation Policy On The Aboriginal

Introduction

Australian Government initiated the Assimilation Policy by the end of 1951 to improve the social context of the community. By the virtue of this policy full blood aboriginal peoplemust have to be left for die out, on the other hand their children needs to be adopted in the white community(Armitage, 1995).

At that particular point of time aboriginal people were segmented in two categories one was “Full Blood” and other were “Half Cast”. Aboriginal children were taken under the consideration of “Half Cast” section(Zimmermann etal, 2000). According to this step, children were separated from their parents and they were admitted in different schools where they could be able to adopt the White culture and lifestyle. Through this overall process government expected that they could be able to remove aboriginal people from the site of Australian Provision(Tatz, 1964).

Later, impact of this policy found very crucial on the overall indigenous community. Disposal of children from their parents impacted on the mental and health related stability of aboriginals. Death rates of aboriginal mothers were found as they were separated from their children. Moreover, overall aboriginal culture was hampered due to this process(Sutton, 2001).

By the help of above discussion a brief understanding of assimilation policy and its impact of Australian aboriginal and Islander could be observed. Some articles and journals have been used to show how they made the research and what kind of results they obtained in that time (Cunneen, 2001). By observing the views and principles of different authors a brief overview of assimilation policy could be observed.

Essay outline

Introduction: (It will mainly showcase the current condition and actual purpose of making this essay……………………………………….)

Critical Analysis of the paper: (Different argumentative views on this particular assimilation policy will be driven through this context……………………..)

Conclusion:

(Finally this section will summarize each and every view point of the matter.

Reference

Armitage, A., 1995. Comparing the policy of aboriginal assimilation: Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. UBC Press.

Zimmermann, K.F., Bauer, T.K. and Lofstrom, M., 2000. Immigration policy, assimilation of immigrants and natives' sentiments towards immigrants: evidence from 12 OECD-countries.

Sutton, P., 2001, November. The politics of suffering: Indigenous policy in Australia since the 1970s. In Anthropological Forum (Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 125-173). Taylor & Francis Group.

Tatz, C.M., 1964. Aboriginal administration in the Northern Territory of Australia.

Cunneen, C., 2001. Conflict, politics and crime: Aboriginal communities and the police.