Why the Chinese were seen as such a threat to the Australian colonies in the 1850s

Essay from the year 2010 in the subject History - Australia, Oceania, grade: 1.3, University of Newcastle, course: Foundations of Australian History, language: English, abstract: Since the early 1850s, when the first gold was found in Australia, several tens of thousands of migrants settled there and tried to solve their economic difficulties back home. A great number of them were Chinese, but the...