Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Mafi girman kwararar ya faru ne lokacin da 'yan gudun hijirar suka bar El Salvador a lokacin Salvadoran Civil War
a cikin shekarun 1980. Na farko shine tsoffin fursunonin siyasa wadanda aka sauƙaƙe ƙaurarsu ta hanyar Shirin Humanitarian na Musamman a 1983. Bayan wannan rukuni na farko, da ya ƙunshi mutane 75, wasu Salvadorans 10,000 suka isa Australia a shekara ta 1986. Ƙungiyoyin da suka biyo baya sun zo - ba kai tsaye daga El Salvador ba - amma daga ƙasashe marasa ci gaba kamar Mexico da Costa Rica waɗanda ke karɓar 'yan gudun hijirar Salvadoran. Yawancin 'yan asalin Ostiraliya da aka haife su a Salvadoran sun zo kafin 2001; kaɗan ne suka biyo bayan yakin basasa. Yawancin 'yan Salvadoran da suke zama a Ostareliya farar fata ne da kuma ƙabilu. Mafi yawan Salvadorans a Ostiraliya suna zaune a Melbourne, (32%), sannan Brisbane, (21%), da Sydney, (18%).