The White Australia policy and its shaping of the Assisted Passage Scheme did not make Australia a place that non-white people could enter and settle; nor did it make Australia the desired place for emigration once the White Australia policy had been dismantled. Between the 1930s and the 1960s, few 'black' people came to Australia and those that did describe either being exoticized or alienated, or both. In the book Adding Pimento: Caribbean Migration to Victoria, Australia (Smith, 2014, p. 34), Jamaican Rupert 'Monty' Montague, who arrived in Melbourne in 1963, was seen as 'a rare bird and, as a result, got the glamour treatment'. Jigzie Campbell (ibid., p. 62), also from Jamaica, describes the isolation:  
The lack of black faces around was very hard to adjust to. I found I became a novelty with people staring, some asking what country I was from, and as soon as I mentioned Jamaica I became an immediate hit with cricket-loving Australians.  
The quotations highlight the whiteness of Australia and also the way in which cultural similarities, such as cricket, inherited from the colonial experience, made African Caribbean people more 'acceptable' in Australia. Millsom Henry-Waring (2008) made the point that while her African Caribbean-ness positioned her as a 'visible migrant' in Australia, 'my British cultural background also privileges my entry and general acceptance in Australia'. Further, Henry-Waring (ibid.) observed that while her racial origins should not be discounted, 'the realities and shifting contexts of multiple identities [...] need to be understood as being beyond essentialised notions of Otherness'.