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Challenges

Migrants may face numerous challenges, including language barriers, racism, difficulty finding work, homesickness, or the effects of war or natural disaster in their home country.

  • A memorable photo of my beautiful Dad.
    Australia
    Some of the many challenges my amazing Mum and Dad went...

    In the early 70's a lot of people struggled financially and...

  • A photo of Dad as a teenager.
    Australia
    Some of the many challenges my amazing Mum and Dad had to...

    To leave the only place you had ever called home and saying...

  • Australia
    Life as a 13 year old POM

    The top picture is one of me and a mate walking through C...

  • Eddie & Irene Kinast
    Germany
    Eddie & Irene Kinast

     

    Challenges 

     

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    Germany
    By Susanne Blaschka – Challenges

    No longer young at 44, Father finally made good his lifelong...

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    Vietnam
    Operation Babylift - Vietnamese orphans come to Australia

    Operation Babylift was the name given to the mass evacuation...

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    Australia
    Section 8 (A) - the challenges of mental illness

    Many migrants that made the journey to Australia found it...

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    Latvia
    Maira Kalnins, the 50,000th New Australian

    Seven-year-old Maira Kalnins (who is referred to incorrectly...

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    Indonesia
    Annie Maas O'Keefe vs Arthur Augustus Calwell and the...

    Annie Maas O’Keefe arrived in Australia as a wartime evacuee...

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    Latvia
    Otto Kampe - 250,000th refugee

    Otto Kampe, the 250,000th refugee to arrive in Australia post...

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    Japan
    Japanese wives of Australian servicemen

    Immediately following World War II, the Japanese brides of...

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    Indonesia
    Bas Wie the 'Kupang Kid'

    Bas Wie was an orphan who had survived the Japanese...

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