Chinatowns in Oceania

This is a continuation on the article on Chinatowns.

Chinatowns in Australasia

Given its proximity to the Asian continent, Australia has and continues to witness a massive immigration of Chinese and other Asians. As with Canada, the majority of ethnic Chinese immigrants to Australia are from Hong Kong. Chinese from various places of mainland China, Macao, Taiwan, Korea, Southeast Asia—especially Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Philippines, and Indonesia—and Latin America also settled Australia.

Many early Chinese from the Guangdong and Fujian provinces of China immigrated to Australia during the gold rush era. They were mainly Chinese of Taishanese, Cantonese, Zhongshanese, Hokkien, and Hakka origin. As in North America, the Chinese faced massive institutionalized discrimination and Asian immigration was restricted by the White Australia Policy in the late 1880s. It was repealed by the 1970s under multiculturalist policies, which in turn ushered in a new wave of Asian immigration, particularly from Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China, and giving rise to several Australian Chinatown communities. There are also many Chinese Malaysian immigrants in Australia. Thais, Japanese, Koreans, ethnic Vietnamese, Lao, and Khmer from Cambodia also stayed in Australian Chinatowns.

Australia

Australia has numerous historic frontier and rural Chinatowns, such as in Atherton, Queensland and Brocks Creek, Northern Territory. These early Chinatowns are now preserved heritage sites.

Contemporary Chinatowns are found in the Australian cities of Sydney, New South Wales, Melbourne, Victoria, Perth, Western Australia, Brisbane, Queensland, Adelaide, South Australia, and Darwin, Northern Territory. There is a Chinatown in Broome, Western Australia, nearly 2,000 kilometres north from Perth. Like their Chinese North American counterparts, Chinese Australians tend to live in many different suburbs.

Sydney's Chinatown is the third area to bear that name. Originally in the Rocks area of Sydney, it later moved to the area near Market Street at Darling Harbour and finally to its current location around Dixon Street. In the Sydney area, working-class Chinese and Vietnamese immigrants have settled in the suburban Chinatown of Cabramatta. Other suburban Chinatowns have cropped up over the years in the suburbs of Ashfield, Burwood, Chatswood, Crows Nest, and Hurtsville.

Melbourne's Chinatown is around Lonsdale Street, Little Bourke Street, and Russell Street. A suburban Chinese community is in Doncaster, with a large Hong Kong and Taiwanese expatriate population.

The Chinatown of Brisbane is located in the Fortitude Valley area.

French Polynesia

The Chinatown, called Quartier Chinois, in French Polynesia is located in Papeete in Tahiti island. Its overseas Chinese also migrated to France.

Guam

Agaña has a unique Chinatown in Guam. The Japanese, Koreans, Thais, Vietnamese, Filipinos, Chamorros, and other Pacific Islanders also settled the place, making it a multi-Asian district. These Asians also migrated to Hawaii or mainland United States.

New Caledonia

Noumea has the only Chinatown in New Caledonia. It has been settled by ethnic Vietnamese, Chinese Vietnamese, and Chinese Indonesian refugees. These Chinese also settled France.

New Zealand

Unlike its neighbor Australia, there has been little ethnic Chinese immigration to New Zealand. Several Chinatowns, however, exist in Auckland and Wellington.

Papua New Guinea

Several old Chinatowns dot the landscape of Papua New Guinea. The Chinatown of Rabaul is among the oldest in the nation. There is also a Chinatown in the capital city of Port Moresby. Many ethnic Chinese have migrated to Australia.

Solomon Islands

There is an active Chinatown in the city of Honiara.