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Definition of assisted immigrant in English: assisted immigrantnoun Australian historical An immigrant who received financial assistance, usually in the form of a paid passage. the majority of assisted immigrants were British Example sentencesExamples - Even among assisted immigrants, the Scots were more likely than the English, and especially the Irish, to be literate, skilled, and also male.
- They displayed an acute sensitivity to the ethnic needs of local parishioners, and cogently expressed prevailing discontent at a time when large numbers of assisted immigrants had swollen existing parish congregations in the 1870s.
- The good ship David Clark rocked up to the Port of Port Phillip and disgorged the first load of assisted immigrants into the colony.
- They wanted to know if it was possible to introduce miners as assisted immigrants.
- Between 1946 and 1970 over two million assisted immigrants arrived in Australia.
- Historically, the Czechs have been markedly active in community groups that have assisted immigrants and have promoted greater familiarity with Czech culture.
- The first ship-load of post-war assisted immigrants from Great Britain stepped ashore at Auckland.
- Compared with the home populations, the Irish in Australia were over-represented among both the convict and assisted immigrants of the nineteenth century, and this was a recurrent cause of anxiety in the rest of the colonial community.
- The Irish immigrants were more literate and skilled and probably healthier than those who remained in Ireland, but were under the general average for Australian assisted immigrants as a whole.
- This had dire social consequences, especially for the thousands of assisted immigrants who had arrived in NSW in the midst of the depression.
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