Operation Kangaroo, or Operación Canguro, was part of an informal immigration initiative — "informal" due to the fact that there were no formal diplomatic relationship between the two countries — that brought male, Spanish, assisted migrants to Australia to work as cane-cutters in North Queensland.
First contingent
The first group arrived in
Brisbane, Queensland, in the ''SS Toscana'' (
Lloyd Triestino Line), on 9 August 1958.
[Garcia (2002), p.45.]
See also
*
Plan Martha
Footnotes
References
* Garcia, Ignacio (2002), ''Operación Canguro: the Spanish Migration Scheme, 1958-1963'', Jamison Center, ACT: Spanish Heritage Foundation.
* Mason, Robert (2018), ''The Spanish Anarchists of Northern Australia: Revolution in the Sugar Cane Fields'', Cardiff : University of Wales Press. {{ISBN, 1-786-83308-5
Tao, Kim (2018), The 60th anniversary of the Spanish migration agreement Australian National Maritime Museum, 6 August 2018.
External links
Spanish migrants mark 60 years since 'Operation Kangaroo', ''SBSSpanish'', 17 December 2018.
Human migration
History of immigration to Australia
Australia–Spain relations
Spanish emigrants to Australia