Apr 22, 2015
Headed to the Land Down Under
Economic Growth and Shared Language Go a Long Way in Promoting Migration
www.medium.com/migration-issues/why-americans-are-leaving-for-the-land-down-under-75bad6dfba39
In my last post, I presented data on the number of US-born individuals living abroad, and noted that there was only one country that had received more historic migration from the US than the US had received from it: Australia. For some reason, Australia has succeeded in attracting a relatively larger US diaspora than other countries.
Because there’s only one country in the world to hold this distinction, it seemed only fitting that I should dig deeper and figure out what’s going on. As I will show, migration to Australia is helped along by a shared language and Australia’s robust economic growth. A historically pro-immigration settlement policy doesn’t hurt, either.