Bosnian Australians

Bosnian Australians are Australian citizens of Bosnian ancestry or Bosnian-born people who reside in Australia. According to the 2011 Australian census 39,440 Australians were born in Bosnia and Herzegovina.[2]

Bosnian Australians
Bosanski Australijanci
Total population
39,440 (by birth in 2011)
23,630 (by ancestry in 2016)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide
Languages
Australian English · Bosnian
Religion
Sunni Islam, Orthodox Christianity, Catholicism
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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 immigrants 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 war had ended, almost 14,000 migrants from Bosnia and Herzegovina were living in Australia. Most of the new arrivals settled in Victoria – Bosnia and Herzegovina was the fifth-largest source of immigrants to Victoria in 1995-96.

Bosnian Australians are active in the nation's cultural and political scenes.

The distribution of Bosnian immigrants in Sydney as a percentage of the population

Demographics

The largest Bosnian communities can be found predominantly in Melbourne's western and south-eastern suburbs, and in Sydney's south-western suburbs.

Bosnians have predominantly arrived in Australia after 1992, with most of the community living in the south-east of Melbourne and in the south-west of Sydney. There are Bosnian run mosques in Deer Park, Noble Park, Penshurst and Smithfield.[3] According to the 2016 Australian census, 23.2% of the Bosnian-born population in Australia was Muslim by faith.[4]

Media

The SBS broadcasts a Bosnian-language program on SBS Radio 2 from 3 PM to 4 PM every Sunday. It also broadcasts BHT 1's Dnevnik news program every Friday morning from 8 AM to 8:30 AM as part of its WorldWatch programming block.

Other community radio stations such as 3ZZZ (Melbourne), 4EB (Brisbane), 6EBA-FM (Perth), 2000FM (Sydney), VOX FM (Wollongong), 1CMS (Canberra), 5EBI (Adelaide) also broadcast in Bosnian.

Language

In Sydney there are 5 Saturday schools for Bosnian Australian youths.[5]

  • Bosnian Ethnic School Inc located at Amity College – Auburn
  • Bosnian Ethnic School Inc located at Australian Bosnian & Herzegovinian Cultural Association – Leppington
  • Bosnian Ethnic School Inc located at Liverpool Public School – Liverpool
  • Bosnian Ethnic School Inc located at Australian Bosnian Islamic Society Gazi Husrev-beg – Penshurst
  • Bosnian Ethnic School Inc located at Australian Bosnian Islamic Society Gazi Husrev-beg – Smithfield

Sport clubs

Notable people

See also

Notes
  1. "The People of Australia – Statistics from the 2011 Census" (PDF). Australian Government. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2015-03-19.
  2. "Migration, Australia, 2011–12 and 2012–13" (XLS). Australian Bureau of Statistics. 18 December 2013. Retrieved 16 May 2013. (table 9.1 of downloadable XL file: "Estimated resident population, Country of birth, State/territory, Age and sex – 30 June 2011")
  3. Haveric, David (February 2009). "History of the Bosnian Muslim Community in Australia: Settlement Experience in Victoria" (PDF). Institute for Community, Ethnicity and Policy Alternatives, Victoria University. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
  4. "Bosnian-born: Community Information Summary" (PDF). Department of Home Affairs.
  5. "Bosnian language schools".


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