Bosnian Australians
ethnic group
Bosnian Australians are Australians of Bosnian ancestry. In the 2021 Australian census, 28,238 people stated that they had Bosnian ancestry and 26,174 Australian residents were born in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
History
There have been three major influxes of Bosnians to Australia. The first period occurred in the aftermath of World War II, and the second occurred in the late 1960s/early 1970s following an economic depression and open border policy in the former Yugoslavia.
Bosnian migrants who arrived in Australia in the 1960s made important contributions to modern-day Australia through their role in the construction of the Snowy Mountains Scheme in New South Wales.
The most recent wave of migration was during the 1990s when many Bosnians sought refuge from the Bosnian War. This migration was assisted under the refugee scheme of the Australian Red Cross.
By 1996, a year after the Bosnian War had ended, almost 14,000 migrants from Bosnia and Herzegovina were living in Australia. Most of the new arrivals settled in Victoria and Bosnia and Herzegovina was the fifth-largest source of migrants to Victoria in 1995-96.
By 2021, Victoria was home to 10,011 people from Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a predominant concentration in the Dandenong area.
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