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The Croatians in Sydney

Croatian settlement in Sydney has a dynamic history of arrivals, desertions, internment, collective departures, and a continuously rich social and political life although only several hundred lived in Sydney until 1949. At least 5, 000 Croatians lived in Australia in 19471, who mostly came from the coastal region of Dalmatia, mainly from the Makarska area and the island of Korcula. They made up around eighty per cent of all migrants from former Yugoslavia and a majority among the at least 425 “Yugoslavs” who in lived in Sydney2 in that period. Many more arrived afterwards and at least 118, 046 persons in Australia, 33, 930 in Sydney, were of Croatian ancestry in the year 20063. The experience of Croatians in Sydney is observed through two historical periods, linked by the continuous market gardening in the northern suburbs Mona Vale and Warriewood, and the western: Cabramatta and Blacktown. Inevitably, it must be understood against the background of the dramatic political and social events that Croatia and Croatians experienced in the last century.

Croatians; Sydney; settlement; market gardening; internment; collective departure

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