Reconsidering the Relationships Between Racial Minority Immigrants and Aboriginal Peoples in the New Millennium: Findings and Evidence from Classic Immigration Countries

The new millennium has witnessed a rapid rising of racial minority immigrant population in classic immigration countries, such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand, as a result of the withdraw of racialized immigration policy in the middle of 1960s.  Meanwhile, the aboriginals of these countries are leaving their isolated reserves and moving toward the urban, namely an ongoing urbanization of Aboriginals.  Contacts between members of these two groups of people, which were once interrupted by the racialized immigration policy one hundred years ago, are getting more frequent now in those countries. The paper reviews the relevant literature on this topic from three classic immigration countries: Canada, Australia and New Zealand and answer the questions:  what are the patterns of and key issues relevant to this relationship, given the sheer different cultural, political and socioeconomic status of these two groups in those countries? Is still there a triangle of relationships between racial minority immigrants, Aboriginal people and the mainstream society? Is the middlemen minority theory still applicable in this new context of mixed racial interactions?