Strategic Culture: Historical and Geographical Rationalization in
Explaining Australia’s Current Immigration Policies
Fitra Shaumi Azzahra and Kezya Agustina Hananya
Universitas Airlangga
Keywords: Foreign Policy, Immigration, Strategic Culture, Region Security, Asia Pacific.
Abstract: During the twenty first century, the problem of immigration has become an indirect security concern that is
highly crucial for Australia. There is a plenty of phenomenon that show how the acceptance of immigrants
can pose a very serious threat to a nation's domestic stability. On one hand, this is due to the difference of
culture between the immigrants and local population which is exhibited through the phenomenon of
Cronulla Riots in 2005. On the other hand, the incapability of the immigrants to fulfill the competencies of
skilled labors also contribute to the rise of criminality in accepting countries. In turn, these two problems
create a paradox with moral values since refusing the arrival of immigrants will be viewed negatively by the
international society. Hence, there is a paradox between moral values and the problem of security in a
certain region that is hard to escape. An interesting case to prove that this paradox exists is when Australia
made a decision to refuse the arrival of immigrants that used boats in 2013 and built two detention centers
in Nauru and Manus under the administration of Tony Abbott. In order to explain this paradox, this article
will utilize the usage of Strategic Culture that can explain Australia's decision that has been mentioned
before. This article argues that Australia's decision to build immigration detention centers is the most
rational decision if viewed through the perspective of Strategic Culture although it creates controversies and
tensions among the other Asia Pacific countries such as Indonesia, Nauru, and Papua Nugini.
1 INTRODUCTION
Unlike other classic security problems states around
the world faces such as land disputes, war on
resources, domestic violence etc, immigration
problem cannot be defined bluntly only as security
issue. This is caused by the background complexity
that lies behind the whole process of immigration. In
most cases, immigration as a phenomenon do not
directly impose a threatening condition to state
actors. For example, in brief we can learn that
foreigners comes to host country to seek live
improvements or to seek refuge. The intention of
those individual were not aimed to cause chaos or
impose direct threat to the host country to begin with
but to seek for self-survival that they may not
receive from their countries of origins. Moreover the
causes of some immigration phenomenon such as
emerging waves of refugees and asylum seekers
comes from a more precise and justified security
threats where refugees fled to host country to escape
an already imposed self-threatening conditions such
as domestic violence that happens in their country of
origins. In this typical case, we can see that
immigration is a phenomenon that happens as the
effect of insecurities rather than as a cause of
insecurity and that the insecurity is felt by individual
rather than state actors. But in other cases, such as
the case we use in this article, immigration is seen as
a cause of insecurity which is then felt by state
actors who are trying to maintain stability within
their territories.
2 IMMIGRATION AS STATE’S
SECURITY OBSTACLES
There are three ways of seeing immigration within
security context (Dotty, 1998 in Lohrman 2000).
The first one (1) is to see immigration issue as a
national security, (2) as a societal security, (3) as an
individual security. This article aims to use the
national security point of view where immigration is
seen in a classical security logic rooted by the self-
othering pratices guided by the believe that people
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who are not a part of a same cultural understanding
or thinking structure will cause more harm than
good due to the difference in how they perceive and
conduct ways of life. This point of view is alligned
by the fact that a more developed countries tends to
see immigration problems differently with a
developing third world countries. Third world’s
tends to see their material inabilities of handling
refugees as the main source of immigration conflict.
This is seen by their tendency of being more
cautious about how a big wave of migration coming
to their country will constraint their resources which
will eventually produce certain resentment. Other
than that, developing countries inability of creating
proper camps and rehabilitation centers for refugees
often leads to protest done by the refugees with a
chance of growing into an act of domestic violence.
In most cases too, such as the ones in southeast asia,
refugee camps that are less regulated and less
supervised due to the lack of financial support often
time become main bases of emerging terrorist
groups and other extended problem such as
environmental disruptions (Freilich 2006). Whereas
first world countries that are financially capable sees
cultural differences as the main source of
immigration conflict. There are prejudicial
stereotyping of the proneness of immigrants towards
crime and deviant behaviour. Other than that society
of first world country are threatened by the open
possibilities of their lifestyle getting swamped by a
big wave of immigrants who have different ways of
thinking and different cultural behaviour (Freilich
2006). Taking account that immigration problem in
first world countries are associated with cultural
issue, this article will show that Australia’s
experiences and history in handling migrants and
refugees that are part of their ‘otherings’ and other
factors such as racial problems in the past shapes
how Australia sees foreigner as a threat and explain
that current Non Caucasian sentiment that are
being brought up as a implicit migration policy is the
product of those experiences and history governing
or ordering their ways of thinking while doing a
decision making processes.
3 AUSTRALIA'S RACIAL
PROFILING IMMIGRATION
POLICY
Immigration has become one of the most widely
contested issue in Australia. The country never had a
uniform official immigration policy until 1901
which became the Australia White Policy.
According to Mence et al (2017), Australia's
immigration history can be traced back to before
1788. The first people who landed their feet on
Australian continent were Australian Aboriginals.
Mence et al (2017) believed that Aboriginals came
to Australia at around 40,000 and 60,000 years ago.
Before the European settlement, their numbers were
believed to reach around 1,5 million (Mence et al
2017). In 1770, James Cook arrived in Australia and
eventually claimed the whole east coast area for
Britain, naming it New South Wales. Despite this
claim, around 250 tribes of Aboriginal Australians
were still there with their own customs and
languages (NSW.gov.au n.d). The arrival of British
was seen with suspicion from Aboriginals Australia
and often caused clashes between the British and
Aboriginals Australia. Six years after the first arrival
of Britain, the first conflict between Aboriginals
Australians and European settlers occurred. No clear
motives were evident, however, some researchers
noted that the motives ranged from revenge to
opportunity (Wahlquist 2017). In years that
followed, more massacres happened that mostly
killed Aboriginals Australia and non-white
immigrants.
According to The Center For 21st Century
Humanities under the University of Newcastle
(2017), there were more than 150 identified
massacres that were committed by European settlers
from 1784-1930. These massacres were rough
estimates, and researchers stated that there must be
more but was kept in secret under the code of
silence. Until 1901, the Aboriginals Australia
decreased and only reached 94,000 (Mence et al
2017). The relationship between Aboriginals
Australia and European settlers was rather hostile,
and it was almost the same with other people from
different races. The year 1820 was regarded as a
year in which Britain started to encourage
immigration although was still limited to British
people. The immigration of free settlers brought
economic changes to Australia, with farming and
pasturing of cattle and sheep (Geyl 1963). This also
marked an expansion and exploration of areas that
were deemed inhabited. In 1851, the discovery of
gold marked an upsurge in number of immigrants.
Geyl (1963) noted that the gold rush in New South
Wales and Victoria brought 600,000 immigrants
from outside Australia. The highest percentage of
immigrants was Britain, followed by Europeans
particularly Germans and Chinese. These
immigrants settled in the predominantly gold rush
area and worked as labors with contracts. The
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following year also marked immigration from
Pacific Islands, Japan, and Malaysia to work in
sugar plantations and pearl industry (Mence et al
2017).
Nonetheless, even with a quite high number of
immigrants, Britain claimed that it still wanted to
make Australia a cultural and political frontier for
Britain. Therefore, Britain did restrict immigrants
who were not British to settle in Australia. This was
particularly evident in a speech from James Stephen
who worked as a Head of Colonial Office in London
(1841 in Soutphommasane 2015) that stated English
race shall not be mixed with any lower caste. This
was transferred to public place, and eventually
caused a series of race riots, particularly targeting
Chinese people who came during the gold rush.
Soutphommasane (2015) wrote that race riots
erupted in goldfields, such as Hanging Rock (1852),
Bendigo (1854), and Buckland River (1857). The
anti-Chinese immigration argued that it would bring
unfair competition to the European workers.
Nevertheless, the reason was not only economic but
also in terms of race, the Chinese were regarded as
beneath the English. The Chinese were pictured as
uncivilized, so they were unable to mix with English
and the white people who were pictured as racially
superior (Soutphommasane 2015). The belief that
white men were far more superior than other races
were evident in media, particularly in The Bulletin
which was Australia's first newspaper. The
newspaper published that other races could not be
Australians, and political liberty only belonged to
the white people (Soutphommasane 2015).
When Australia became a federation in 1901, the
issue of immigration remained important for the
parliament. The belief that white race was superior
than the other races still resonated which was
evident in three important laws on immigration.
These three were Immigration Restriction Act,
Pacific Island Labourers Act, and Naturalization
Act. These three laws represented what is now called
as White Australia Policy. Immigration Restriction
Act was a law that prohibited the entry of people
who failed their Dictation Test. According to Jones
(2017), a Dictation Test is a test in which a person
would be asked to write 50 words in various
European languages. Further, in 1905, the law was
amended and gave the officers who conducted the
test more power to exclude undesired people (Jones
2017). Pacific Island Labourers Act was an act that
intended to prohibit people from Pacific Islands
entering Australia from 1904 onwards. The people
from Pacific Islands who had already entered
Australia were forcibly repatriated (Federal Register
of Legislation 2018). Naturalization Act was a law
that stated naturalization could not be done on
people from Asia, Africa, and Islands of the Pacific.
Further, non-Europeans could not bring their
children or spouses to Australia (Mence et al 2017).
These laws were seen quite effective, seeing that
people were reluctant to migrate to Australia.
According to Jones (2017), only 2,000 people took
the Dictation Test from 1901 until 1958.
Australia started to change its attitudes towards
immigration in 1958, but this was because Australia
needed more labors to reconstruct Australia's
economy after being attacked by Japan in World
War II. Further, Australia had also sacrificed its
people at a high number that reached 4 million
people (Jupp 2007). The term 'populate or perish'
was created by Arthur Calwell to address this
problem. Australia started to open its doors, but the
numbers of people who entered were still dominated
by British and followed by people from Europe who
were displaced. The White Australia Policy was
officially dismantled in 1973, and Australia was
seen ready to accept more immigrants that were
categorized as highly skilled. However, White
Australia as a mindset remained intact. Jupp (2007)
noted that this was evident in public support for
Pauline Hansen when she gave her first speech in
Parliament in 1996. Hanson believed that Australia
is being swamped by Asians and refused the policy
of multiculturalism which was evident in her speech
(Sydney Morning Herald 2016). Her party, One
Nation, won nearly 23 per cent of the vote. Jupp
(2007) also noted that her party was doing great in
New South Wales and in federal election in which
her party received one million votes for the Senate.
When the Tampa Affairs happened in 2001, Prime
Minister Howard refused to receive the refugees and
received public support which enabled him to
become prime minister again.
Until now, Australia remains committed to its
refusal on irregular immigration including refugees
and endorsed a refugee settlement programs as close
as possible to the refugee's home country (Foreign
Policy White Paper 2017). This strong position has
been defended by Australia, who claimed that they
are not obligated to accept refugees for resettlement.
Today, Australia's immigration policy is focused on
people who are experienced and highly qualified to
work in Australia (Department of Home Affairs
2018).
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4 AUSTRALIA’S GOVERNMENT
ACTOR’S POINT OF VIEW IN
SEEING IMMIGRATION
PROBLEM
Just as stated in section one, we can see that
Australia, as a country that can be categorized as
developed or First World’s country had been
familiar in experiencing riots as a cause of accepting
immigrants from the very beginning of their
existence as a state. It can be seen from section two
that there had been attempt made by Australian
government to accept refugees and immigrant
repetitiously by two main factors and motives that
are (1) to cover the demand of hard skilled labor
and (2) as a respond to minimize international
spotlight given to them as a country who has not
been very friendly in increasing immigrant quota.
But just as they are open to such attempts, sets of
tragedies like riots between the Chinese people and
the Australian people that are mostly Caucasian that
happened in 1851 occurs and had impose a
significant security alert to the government and the
people of Australia itself since the riot has
contributed in a large amount of casualties records
along history too. Similar cases happens after 1851
even until now repeating the same cycle all over
again, the Cronulla riots for instance in 2005 is also
a riot that comes out of unsynchronized cultural
harmony between the local Australia people and
those from outside who’s not under the European or
western identity. Researches by social scholars had
stated that in most cases these kinds of riots appear
out of identity base fear reasoning that comes out
from economic anxieties where the local people are
threatened by the existence of either soft-skilled or
hard-skilled labor foreigners who might seize
native’s work field or work opportunity. Or in other
words, there are competitive attempts from both
migrants and natives in the host countries market
too.
Until this point, it can be argued that the
reduction of migrant and refugee quota that
happened currently in 2013 right after Australia had
made a slight period of a bigger quota just before
2013 is a rationalization made by decision makers
taking account their historical experiences of
handling refugees in the past which often times ends
up with another riot and other domestic security
alerts. To then point out and prove whether
Australian people does have uneasy tendencies
towards ‘others’ that are not part of the western or
European culture we can reflect back onto how
Australia has made Immigration Restriction Act
(1901) that requires immigrants to take tests to
determine whether an immigrant or refugee had any
similar cultural understanding of certain issue so to
be easily accepted within the society or how in the
process of visa granting the first thing that the
Australia’s immigration officers do is to see the
applicant’s race and origins. Other than seeing the
tangible tendencies, statements made and discourse
happening around Australian’s officials could also
show how Australian governement take race and
origins seriously in determining which immigrants
or refugee should stay on their lands.
In national level, we can see clearly that
imigration problem is very consequential to
Australian goverment just as how consequential the
issue of counterterrorism is for United States. This is
shown in how Australia’s Annual White Papers,
their main guidlines for allignment and strategic
decisions had always put immigration as their main
agenda or national interest. Allign with this interest,
are the politicians, officials and authoritarians point
of view in seeing immigrations as a security issue
that needs handling. Almost all politicians even from
different parties both agreed to the reduction of
immigrants especially those coming from Southeast
Asia and Middle East countries. In 2015 Prime
Minister Malcolm Turnbull had release the
‘Australia First’ policy to cut down around 457
Visas of people that mostly comes from China and
other Southeast Asia countries. Along with that the
Prime Minister had set a tougher english
requirement test and other cultural test requirements
up to a more advanced level. He stated that:
“We will no longer allow 457 visas to
be passports to jobs that could and
should go to Australians. We’re
putting jobs first, and we’re putting
Australians first.” (Turnbull in Clark,
2017)
Along with his statement, Dan Engels the
Managing Director of Visa Solution then point out
what this policy means to Australia and the workers
originating from China and other Southeast Asia
countries. In one of press interview Engels stated:
For the impact on China and Asia
more generally, past the English
language requirements it does send a
message that we are increasing the
barriers to the movement of people
and especially if you don’t look and
speak as we do here in Australia.”
(Engels in Clark, 2017)
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From behavior performed by the Prime minister
and interpretative statement made by Engels above
we can see that there are efforts made by Australia
to do ‘self – othering’ practices where the ‘self’ here
is perceived as Australian people or ‘those who
speak as we (Australian) do’, this article takes
language as a part of cultural tools, thus, this
statement also ‘others’ those who do not have the
ability to perceive the cultural understanding of
Australian people. This two statements also validate
the fact that developed countries sees cultural factor
as the main source of immigration conflict as stated
in the second section of this article. Other than the
Prime Minister and his officials, ministers that are
assigned in the ministries directly related with
immigration issues such as Peter Dutton, the
minister of Immigration and Borderline Protection
which has now been change into the ministry of
Home Affairs. In one of his speeches for his
campaign he stated:
“We have to try and encourage people
out into regions, we have to reduce the
numbers where we believe it’s in our
national interest. It’s come back
considerably and if we have to bring it
back further, if that’s what required
and that’s what’s in our country’s best
interests ... that is what we will do.”
(Dutton 2016).
From this statement we can also see the minister
Dutton’s effort in bringing up how the limitation of
immigrants had always been brought up in the past
and was effective therefore essential to do today in
order to meet their national strategies. Although
there has been sets of serious ambitions coming
from Prime Minister Turnbull in his previous
electoral campaign, the practice that goes on until
now are still alligned with Australia’s needs of
securing they’re lands from indirect threats such as
the rising of immigrants in their big lands with very
little ammount of natives. Preassumably this could
happen as an effect of other consequential
authoritarians such as Petter Dutton to who counters
Turnbull’s anomaly Ideas and behavior in trying to
make Australia a more migrant friendly country.
Thus, we can see that there has been an attempt to
change the way Australia sees immigrants but had
not been a success at the end of the day. This shows
that the historical pattern had been consequential in
today’s decision making process.
5 AUSTRALIA’S STRATEGIC
CULTURE: GEOGRAPHIC
AND CULTURAL
SIGNIFICANCE
From the historical background above we can see
Australia’s domestic tendency when it comes to
handling immigrants. In international strategic
studies we could also see that the racial and cultural
tendency does not only occur within Australia’s
domestic dynamics but is also shown on how
Australia acts and reacts towards the states that
contain people’s who’s race and culture are less
favorable to the Australian people. For instance, how
Australia had always show its tendencies to counter
Southeast Asian countries policies and behavior.
This, however is also due to geographical conditions
and features Australia is bounded with. As can be
seen from the historical facts above, we can assume
that Australia is in a way more of a West European
or British culture colored rather than eastern. This
automatically became a paradox with its
geographical condition where Australia’s geography
is not any near with countries that shares similar or
close cultural relation with Australia but the
continent is placed among Asian countries and other
eastern colored countries such as Japan, Indonesia,
Vietnam, Philippines, Myanmar, China etc (Evans
2006). Taking geographical considerations into
account we can see that the racial profiling policies
are more and more rational to Australia seeing the
fact that Australia had such big land and see
territorial with big resources to govern and to take
advantage of but less native population to do the
governing. Thus, the immigration phenomenon
could be seen as diaspora threat to the natives of
Australia. The example of how this cultural
constrains in immigration security context can be
seen in how at 2011- 2015 Australia under Tony
Abott’s government Australia had been throwing
‘boat people’ originating from Myanmar but are
mostly muslims to Indonesia and Malaysia which
are the states perceived by Australia as more
culturaly suitable for the Rohingyans. As a strategic
choice of keeping up with their national stability and
completing moral tasks at the same time, Australia
thinks that it is rational for them to spend extra
money to help Indonesia and Papua Nugini to build
camps, detention and rehabilitation center in Nauru
and Manus, an island not far away from their land
territories but not under their legitimate jurisdiction
rather than having to accept those refugees intheir
own place. Due to their need to secure their
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geographical territory, Australia also take big
concern in how Southeast Asia goverments respond
and react to immigrant issue. Australia had been
playing active role in influincing the ASEAN
community to reconsider their immigration policy
since the more immigration allowance made by
ASEAN country the bigger the risk of insecurity for
Australia’s territory too since they are
geographically bounded. Last example can also be
seen in how Australia had also recently stop
immigrant originating from Middle Eastern
countries such as Lebanon, Syria and Afghanistan
but has not done anything to limit immigrant coming
from England, New Zealand, Ireland, United States
and other European countries combined.
6 CONCLUSION
Australia’s Strategic culture among scholars was
known to be quite ‘protective’ in securing their
national territories rather than taking extra concerns
in the high political intervenstionist behavior that are
mostly performed by other european and western
countries. This behavior is caused by two main
factors (1) historical dynamics and (2) geographical
constraint. Seeing from the historical approach we
can see that Australia had always been a country
who made attempts in trying to accept immigrants
just to be let down by the migrants who caused riots
that ended up as domestic insecurity. The effort to
then keep the immigrant quota low was a
rationalization that comes out of the realization of
social protest done by the natives or their own
society of the economic anxities that often occurs as
the cause of Asian and Middle-eastern diaspora
taking the native’s jobs field in Australia. Thus,
racial profiling for immigrants is perceived
mandatory for Australi’as security. In geographical
approach, Australia’s dilemma in being the only
‘western/eruopean’ cultured country that sits among
‘asian or eastern’ cultured country had forced them
to take deep concern in ASEAN’s countries decision
and behavior in handling immigration problem since
their choices would implicate Australia’s security
too. Although here has been trials of changing how
the Australia should perceive the immigrant made by
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, the practice done
under his administration had not shown any
significant change in Australia’s immigration policy.
This is because, there are structured understanding
among internal security decision makers in seeing
immigrants and Australia’s history with the
immigrants. Turnbull’s attempt in increasing the
quota cannot be successfull because of the other
decision makers who are not in favor with accepting
more ‘eastern/asia’ immigrants.
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