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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 photo of my beautiful Dad taken in the Vanity Arcade photo booth in early 1965.
    Australia
    Some of the many challenges my amazing Mum and Dad went...

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

  • My beautiful Dad's ID card that he would have needed before coming to Australia and which he would have always kept in his wallet.
    Australia
    Some of the many challenges my amazing Mum and Dad had to...

    To leave the only place you have 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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