there was also a great desire in the baghdadi jewish community to settle in australia but following 1948 the country secretly implemented an immigration policy excluding jews from the middle east and asia from settling in the country frustrating baghdadi jews from emigrating there. however in the early 1950s the baghdadi jews alongside other minority populations in india were granted the right to migrate to australia as the white australia immigration policy was progressively dismantled. this saw considerable baghdadi jewish emigration from kolkata to australia. it has been estimated a third of the baghdadi jewish community of kolkata eventually settled in sydney in australia with the remainder not departing to britain settling in israel.