ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the resettlement of 170,000 non-Jewish displaced persons in Australia by the International Refugee Organisation between 1947 and 1952. It analyses official migration selection policies and procedures, which included a total lack of security officers in the initial phase and a later limitation of security officers in numbers and geographical spread. In any case, the Australian government was predominantly interested in enabling a mass migration scheme of fit and assimilable workers, as quickly and with as little fuss as possible. This chapter also examines the Australian government's attempts to deport displaced persons it deemed unsuitable, and its consistent refusals to cooperate with Soviet extradition requests of alleged war criminals.
