Australia Plans to Raise More Barriers to Citizenship<br />Taken together, the moves put Australia at the forefront of a global movement to limit migration,<br />and to turn citizenship from something meant to help people integrate into what Mr. Turnbull called a "big prize" — a reward for having assimilated.<br />Populists in Europe, the United States and elsewhere — including, in Australia, Pauline Hanson, a senator who has called for a ban on Muslim immigration — have often<br />relied on this argument to rally frustrated working-class voters who fear Islam or believe they are competing with immigrants for jobs or government resources.<br />By DAMIEN CAVEAPRIL 20, 2017<br />DARWIN, Australia — When Nhan Do heard that Australia planned to make it more difficult to become<br />a citizen of the country he had called home for 25 years, he was overcome with confusion.<br />In the United States, millions of immigrants who could become citizens do not do so, often citing the expense and challenge of the citizenship test.<br />Here in Darwin, a northern outpost closer to Indonesia than it is to Sydney, and across Australia, there is little doubt<br />that Mr. Turnbull is focusing on immigration because his government is at risk of being toppled, by rivals on the right or left.
