A historical timeline - Mapping the emergence and transitions of anti-Asian racism in Australia

We recognise the Traditional Custodians Anti-Japanese Racism during the of the lands on which these resources are compiled, the Racism: Xenophobia early migration of Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, and pay our respects and perpetual Chinese settlers to Elders past and present. [...] 1800s – 1900s > Some of the first waves of Asian settler migrants to Australia were > Yellow peril narratives that emerged in the 1800s continue to be Chinese men who arrived in Australia as indentured labourers and evoked politically today, including in the forms of distrust and “Yellow Peril”: worked for the Australian Agricultural Company, and then later denigration of Chinese and other Asian A. [...] Anti-Chinese riots and violence during this characterisation of Asian migrants or refugees and people seeking Chinese settlersii period, such as the Lambing Flat riots, paved the way for the White asylum as “queue jumpers” and “job-stealers.” Australia Policy in the 1900s.iii > Anti-Asian and anti-Chinese racism during this time took the forms of yellow peril and other Orientalist stereotypes. [...] A historical timeline mapping the emergence and transitions of anti-Asian racism in Australia 4 PERIOD EVENTS KEY INSIGHTS 1980s – 2000s > The end of the White Australia Policy in the 1970s and the > These racist narratives persist today, including in beliefs that arrival of refugees during and after the Vietnam War marked Asians, as well as Muslims and refugees, threaten white Australia’s Reemerg. [...] Australian communities.xxxiii A historical timeline mapping the emergence and transitions of anti-Asian racism in Australia 6 References i For the purpose of this project, the scope of ‘Asia’ discussed is limited to the regions of ix ‘Vietnamese refugees boat arrival’, National Museum of Australia (Fact Sheet, East, Southeast, and South Asia, and did not substantively cover other regions of Asia 6.