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What was behind the push for British migrants, what was it like for them when they arrived and how important were they in developing the post war economy. A new exhibition at the Immigration Museum explores these issues. Trevor Chappell discussed with Dr Moya McFadzean Senior curator, Migration & Cultural Diversity at Museums Victoria.

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What was behind the push for British migrants, what was it like for them when they arrived and how important were they in developing the post war economy. A new exhibition at the Immigration Museum explores these issues. Trevor Chappell discussed with Dr Moya McFadzean Senior curator, Migration & Cultural Diversity at Museums Victoria.

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Refugee and asylum-seeking children from around the world tell their own fresh and moving stories straight to camera. Woven together, their stories tell of conflict at home, the dreams and disappointments of coming to Britain, and the pain and joy of f...

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People have come to Australia from all over the world, for different reasons and in different ways. The National Archives holds records about many individuals who arrived from overseas during the 20th century and some who arrived during the 19th century. We also hold records about Australians who left and returned to Australia.

Since Federation, the Australian Government has been responsible for developing laws and policies that decide who can and can't enter Australia, for travel or migration.

Our records reflect the disparate and changing attitudes towards migrants and the evolving patterns of migration over the 20th century. They are of immense historical and personal significance. Our records of displaced persons are listed on UNESCO's Australian Memory of the World register.

alien (non-citizen) registration

migration applications

case files

migrant selection documents

migrant accommodation records

naturalisation (citizenship) records

passenger records

passport records

policy files

visas and entry/exit documents

Department of External Affairs, 1901-16 (CA 7)

Department of Home and Territories, 1916-28 (CA 15)

Department of Home Affairs, 1928-32 (CA 24 and CA 28)

Department of the Interior, 1932-39 (CA 27 and CA 31)

Department of Trade and Customs

Collector of Customs in each state

Prime Minister's Department

Governor-General

Attorney-General's Department

Investigation Branch, later Commonwealth Investigation Service

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People have come to Australia from all over the world, for different reasons and in different ways. The National Archives holds records about many individuals who arrived from overseas during the 20th century and some who arrived during the 19th century. We also hold records about Australians who left and returned to Australia.

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Thanks to Aging Populations A living graph comparing youthful and aging populations and a classification exercise of the social, political and economic consequences of an aging population, which could form the basis of 2 lessons. All the materials are here Malcolm Marshall, Huntcliff School and Bob Downes, Baysgarth School, both North Lincs.

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The family and its associated rituals were and still are today, the basis of Italian life. While Italian migrants worked extremely long hours, Sunday was reserved as a day to spend with the family.

Most family rituals surrounded a 'festa' or celebration. Religious rites-of-passage such as baptisms, communions, confirmations and weddings involved huge parties where nonne (grandmothers) and zie (aunts) would be involved making garments and food. Families would work embroidering a bride's dowry of sheets, pillowcases and towels. Many Italian women were also married by proxy in Italy and arrived in Australia to meet their husband and begin married life. Most of the family rituals concerned making food. In the 1950s Australians had not been exposed to European food and it was difficult to obtain products such as olive oil or pasta. Italians continued making their own delicacies, something they had been doing for centuries in Italy.

One of the most common rituals was making 'passata', tomato sauce used for pasta. For many Italians, especially those living in rural areas, 'Salame Day' was another annual event. A pig would be raised for several months and then slaughtered to make salame, pancetta, prosciutto and coppa. Similarly, wine and grappa were commonly made by Italian migrants.

The Italian backyard was also the place where Italian style vegetables and fruits were grown. Vegetables such as zucchini, eggplants, capsicums and borlotti beans were grown as they were unheard of in Australia during the 1950s. Similarly, most Italian backyards had fig trees, fici d'India (prickly pears) and sometimes, olive trees.

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The family and its associated rituals were and still are today, the basis of Italian life. While Italian migrants worked extremely long hours, Sunday was reserved as a day to spend with the family. Most family rituals surrounded a 'festa' or celebration.

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Australia's Migration History; Mrs Jaeger Year 6 History

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Cuc Lam's Suitcase is an episode of the series National Treasures produced in 2004.

Cuc Lam's Suitcase
If you were forced to leave your home forever, what would you take with you? Vietnamese refugee Cuc Lam took family photos and jewellery but sacrificed one precious possession to buy a suitcase, now in Melbourne's Immigration Museum. Cuc Lam talks to Warren Brown about her journey to Australia and how this small red vinyl bag was a symbol of a new beginning in a new country.

National Treasures
Take a road-trip of discovery with the irrepressible Warren Brown - political cartoonist, columnist and history "tragic" - as he reveals a fascinating mix of national treasures drawn from public and private collections across Australia. On its own, each treasure is a priceless snapshot of an historic moment. Together, they illustrate the vitality and uniqueness of the Australian experience.

National Treasures is a Film Australia National Interest Program. Produced with the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Outcomes from this digital resource
Students will:

learn the signs, codes and conventions of the documentary genre

research the ways in which immigration has been represented in media texts

understand the role of symbols in media texts

create short documentaries and non fiction text types focusing on objects as symbols important to them

Viewing and creating texts about Cuc Lam's suitcase, students will have the opportunity to explicitly develop and demonstrate their knowledge and abilities in terms of the Queensland curriculum
Affective objectives

enjoying: experiencing and expressing thoughts and emotional reactions

engaging: participating effectively in activities that involve connecting with people, feelings, places, ideas, issues and events

relating: respecting and valuing cultural similarities and differences

appreciating: valuing the world(s) in which they live in order to understand better the world of others

playing: experimenting with the flexible nature of language, exploring its possibilities, and creating desired effects

Knowledge and control of texts in their contexts

making meaning in texts, taking account of how language and meaning are shaped by cultural purposes, genres and register variables

selecting, synthesising, analysing, infering from, and evaluating subject matter and substantiating with evidence as required

establishing and making use of the ways that writers, speakers/signers and shapers' roles and their relationships with their readers, listeners and viewers are influenced by power, distance and affect

using modes and mediums, combining where necessary, to interpret and produce texts.

Knowledge and control of textual features

making decisions about the appropriateness and effectiveness of the staging of texts and the sequencing and organization of subject matter, and of the use of cohesive ties to link ideas in a range of texts, including those that are multigeneric and multimodal

considering and selecting vocabulary, including figurative language

experimenting with visual, auditory and digital features, using them in combination as appropriate in written, spoken/signed and multimodal texts to make meaning

making use of a range of spoken/signed and non-verbal features

Knowledge and application of the constructedness of texts

making use of their knowledge that discourses shape and are shaped by language choices

exploring ways that cultural assumptions, values, beliefs and attitudes underpin texts

choosing ways to represent concepts, and the relationships and identities of individuals, groups, times and places

considering ways that readers, viewers or listeners are invited to take up positions in relation to texts or parts of texts, and making decisions about which reading position to adopt

making choices about how to invite readers or viewers of, or listeners to, their own texts to take up positions in relation to the text of parts of the text.

This is an extract only. Teachers and students should consult Queensland Curriculum: Learning, Teaching and Assessment for updated curriculum information

Background Information

By 1954, after the defeat of the Japanese and the expulsion of the French in the north, Vietnam was divided into communist North Vietnam and pro-western South Vietnam. The failure of a proposed vote on reunification led to war, which the north won in 1975.

The new national government sent many people who had supported the old government in the south to 're-education camps', and others to 'new economic zones', where they were treated badly. These factors, coupled with poverty caused by disastrous economic reforms, caused millions of Vietnamese to flee the country, usually by barely sea-worthy boats.

These fleeing Vietnamese sold what they could for gold, and took only what they could carry with them. Pirates who raped, murdered and stole almost at will against the defenceless refugees preyed on them. Many ships sank, with the loss of all aboard.

Refugees who did survive had to stay in primitive camps in Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Indonesia.

The plight of the boat people now became an international humanitarian crisis. Several countries agreed to resettle as many as possible of the refugees, and agreed to quotas - the United States of America (823 000), Australia and Canada (137 000 each), France (96 000), and Germany and the United Kingdom (19 000 each).

Before 1975 there were approximately 700 Vietnam-born people in Australia. A few refugee boats had reached northern Australia, but most of the Vietnamese refugee resettlement between 1975 and 1985 was by air from the refugee camps in Asia, and was then followed by family reunion under the Family Stream of Australia's immigration program. By 1981, 43 400 Vietnamese had been resettled in Australia. By 1991 there were 124 800 Vietnam-born in Australia and in the 2001 census, 154 000 people declared themselves as Vietnam-born.

1. Exploring the production signs, codes and conventions

1. How many different modes of representation are used to present the story of Cuc Lam's suitcase? Discuss the use of narrator to camera in the opening shots and the time compression sequence that follows taking us into the museum, the 1978 footage and the interview with Cuc Lam.

2. How does the video clip represent Cuc Lam's journey? Discuss how the images of the suitcase and its contents are framed.

3. Discuss the role of the music soundtrack in the video clip. What mood does it evoke?

4. What point of view are we as the audience invited to take about immigration? Write a brief list of words used by Warren Brown that position us in relation to immigration policies in 1978.

5. How is the suitcase represented as a symbol in the video clip? Discuss the actual suitcase, Warren Brown's drawing and the language used to describe it.

2. Exploring the documentary form in multi modal texts

1. Choose an object that has meaning for you in a cultural context, for example something you or your family may have brought with them to Australia in any era: a photograph, clothing, trunk, personal memorabilia, a treasured souvenir etc. In small groups, share insights about the objects and what they represent to each student.

2. Write an article about it for a newspaper or magazine or for publishing online; it could be a blog. Include interviews, photographs and other relevant material.

3. Produce a short documentary about the object. Think about how you will present the object and what images, sound and narration and/or interviews need to be included.

4. Tape a radio program about the object. What needs to be considered when images cannot be included?

5. The use of the word 'multiculturalism' by some prominent Australians has recently been reported in the media. Using the internet and other sources, investigate the debate and discuss the people who are engaged in the debate, the arguments being used for and against the use of the word 'multiculturalism' and why these people might be making their arguments.

For more National Treasures information and video clips go to Investigating National Tresures

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Cuc Lam's Suitcase is an episode of the series National Treasures produced in 2004. Cuc Lam's Suitcase If you were forced to leave your home forever, what would you take with you? Vietnamese refugee Cuc Lam took family photos and jewellery but sacrificed one precious possession to buy a suitcase, now in Melbourne's Immigration Museum.

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What impacts has immigration had on Australia? | National Museum of Australia

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Years 6-10 Australian history, geography, environment

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Everyone has a right to safety. We work to ensure the safety of millions of refugees and asylum seekers who have been forced to flee their homes.

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Updated July 24, 2015 09:38:49

From the difficulty of shopping to catching a bus, refugees speak about what it was like to settle in Melbourne after fleeing their home country.

When we got here we were very happy. But it was very cold. I didn't know where to get food, or to go to the toilet.

Ngo Way and Hla Win

Moving to a new country presented extra challenges for Ngo Way.

After more than six months of living in the lucky country, the Karen man has still never seen the Australian landscape.

Relying solely on smell, touch and sound, Mr Way was blinded in a landmine explosion near the Thai-Burma border 20 years ago.

"I went to the Burma border to look for food and I stood on a land mine," he said.

"Some of my friends lost their leg and arms."

Mr Way, along with his pregnant wife Hla Win and four children, applied for Australia's offshore humanitarian program while living in a refugee camp, after fleeing Myanmar, formerly known as Burma.

The Karen ethnic group have, for many decades, been the recipient of brutal treatment from the military regime.

Before the family was accepted into Australia last year, Mr Way had 30 years living in Thailand refugee camps where he sought comfort in a choir for men with disabilities.

"I feel so peaceful every time I sing," he said.

When asked through a translator about his first week in Melbourne, a huge smile spread across his face.

"When we got here we were very happy, but it was very cold," he said.

I didn't speak English, I didn't know where to go.

Mr Way and his family are living in Ringwood in Melbourne's east.

Without any belongings or knowledge of Australian culture, the family relied on a small network of family along with volunteers from AMES, an organisation that helps newly arrived refugees and migrants settle into Victoria.

"The difficult thing was I didn't speak English," he said.

"I didn't know where to go to get food, or to go to the toilet."

Today Mr Way's daily satisfaction comes from a tiny portable radio that allows him to listen to three bible songs.

He said words could not express the comfort that came from knowing his five children would have a better life.

"I wish I could see my kids, but I know that's not going to happen," he said.

"For my kids, I wish they get higher education and I hope they can help look after me."

Zulfiqar Ali

With no English, it was very, very hard - when I saw people in the plaza and they were talking English, I just run away, [because] if anyone asked me anything, it was very hard to give an answer.

Three and a half years ago, Zulfiqar Ali and his wife, Sadia Batool Ali, made the treacherous journey across the high seas to seek asylum in Australia.

A Hazara man born in Afghanistan, his community was increasingly becoming a target of extremists.

When he was a boy his family moved to Pakistan, but there the Shiite Muslim religious minority were also being persecuted.

Due to their different facial features, Mr Ali said they were easily recognisable and targeted.

"Hazara people are kidnapped by the Taliban," he said.

Just a few weeks ago, Mr Ali said his father was almost killed.

His father was sitting in the street when he turned to speak to his friends and realised they were dead.

"There were three of them, there was blood everywhere, they had been shot in the head," he said.

When we came to Australia and everyone was saying 'good morning', we were very happy that people don't know us and they are talking to us.

Mr Ali's journey to Australia took several days crossing several borders with the help of agents.

"We did not know about the journey, no-one told us," he said.

"Every agent when we passed through borders, they told us you could cross [to Australia] in six hours or 10 hours, and it is a very easy journey."

The boat journey from Indonesia to Australian waters took two days and two nights.

"It's horrible, it's 100 people in a little boat, we can't move," he said.

"It was very hard even to get to the toilet, sometimes the water was rough and everyone was praying.

"Before we got to Christmas Island, the Australian Navy took us by the big boat."

From 15 days on Christmas Island to six months in an Adelaide detention centre, he said the treatment he received from immigration staff was warm and welcoming.

But his first week settling into the community was terrifying.

"With no English, it was very, very hard," he said.

"When I saw people in the plaza and they were talking English, I just run away, [because] if anyone asked me anything, it was very hard to give an answer.

"I did not know how to even get out of the plaza, I did not know how to catch a bus. I was scared.

"The most difficult thing was we didn't have any cars to travel."

After four months I recognised that I can go anywhere. I'm in a free environment, I'm not scared that someone is going to kill me.

It was after several months that Mr Ali finally began to settle into Australian life, a life he is overwhelmingly grateful for.

"In my country people normally do not talk to each other [in the street], ladies do not talk to the men," he said.

"So when we came to Australia and everyone was saying 'good morning', we were very happy that people don't know us and they are talking to us."

A former AMES youth program student, he is now working as a welder with a maintenance services company in Moorabbin.

He said his employer and co-workers helped improve his English.

"He's also been learning Aussie slang," his employer, Russell Moore, said.

One of Mr Ali's favourite things to do is have an Australian barbeque on a Friday afternoon with his workmates.

"It's a little bit hard to live in a country with new people, but with passage of time I recognise the people, I recognise the places," he said.

"In Pakistan or Afghanistan I cannot go very far from home.

"After four months I recognised that I can go anywhere, I'm in a free environment, I'm not scared that someone is going to kill me."

Gyaltsen Yeshi

From Tibet, Gyaltsen Yeshi's father was a political prisoner to the Chinese government for 22 years.

"My father protested for Tibet freedom," he said.

"He was 45 when he went in to prison, when he got out he was 67."

Mr Yeshi said the communist government confiscated the family's home and wealth and distributed it across Tibetan society.

From the age of 12, he said he was forced into slave labour, building roads and houses.

The now 68-year-old said the heavy labour from such a young age left him with long-term injuries to his hands and joints.

"There were no machines, so we had to do it all by hand, mixing cement to build houses," he said.

"I didn't have enough food to eat or clothes to wear."

Fleeing to India in 1990, Mr Yeshi met his wife Tsepak, and spent 24 years there in exile.

He received a job with the Dalai Lama security office.

Here it is very cold, but I feel very comfortable because it is free. When I came to Footscray I felt good, because there are a lot of other refugees here.

In the 1990s he said his mother was thrown into a fire by government officials and spent the rest of her life unable to walk.

"The Dalai Lama told me not to go back, it is a risk, and it is better to stay here," he said.

"I came here with my two children so they can have a better life."

The family arrived in Australia last year after receiving a humanitarian visa, through Australia's offshore program.

"Here it is very cold, but I feel very comfortable because it is free," he said.

After spending some time in Werribee, they are now settled in Melbourne's inner west.

Mr Yeshi is also receiving English lessons through AMES volunteer Glen.

"When I came to Footscray I felt good, because there are a lot of other refugees here," he said.

"I feel very thankful to the Australian Government, and I request that the Australian Government accept more refugees, they have a lot of problems."

First posted June 19, 2015 13:03:46

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My first week in Australia: Three refugees tell their stories

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Updated July 24, 2015 09:38:49 From the difficulty of shopping to catching a bus, refugees speak about what it was like to settle in Melbourne after fleeing their home country. When we got here we were very happy. But it was very cold. I didn't know where to get food, or to go to the toilet.

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This is the story of how the Makur family came to Australia to live safely.

I am Martin Majur Majak and I live with Martha Makur and our six children in Dorrigo, Northern NSW. We come from Yirol in Southern Sudan. My parents died when I was very young and my uncle took me into his family and brought me up. My uncle joined the army, became a captain and was killed 6 years later when I was 18. I was very sad when he died because he had loved me and was like a father to me.

After his death the war came closer to our home so one night we left to join other refugees on the walk to Kenya. There were more than 500 in our group but many were to die on the journey. We walked from village to village for 5 weeks caring for two young children and carrying what little food and water we had. We had an escort of soldiers for protection, and suffered many attacks by land and air from government forces. Some refugees were killed during these attacks whilst others died because they were to ill or weak to survive the journey. We stayed in some villages for 5 days or more waiting for U.N . food drops and to allow the sick to recover.

"It is a violent place where many people are raped and murdered. We lived in Kakuma camp for 8 years, we looked for resettlement and prayed to God for help every day."

Martin Majur Majak, 2006

We spent 3 weeks at Lokichokio on the Kenyan border where the U.N. registered us for ration cards and transferred us to the Kakuma refugee camp. Kakuma is desert country with very hot weather we had very little food and water and we were always hungry. It is a violent place where many people are raped and murdered. We lived in Kakuma camp for 8 years, we looked for resettlement and prayed to God for help every day. Fortunately we were lucky to get a visa to come to Australia and Sanctuary arranged our airfares and settlement, the Sanctuary people in Dorrigo are our friends and they help us in many ways.

Martha and I and our six children now have a home, good food and are happy and healthy in this free country . The children are doing well at school, Martha is learning English and I have gained my school certificate and will go on to year 11 this year. I thank Australian Immigration and Sanctuary for their help and ask you to think of the many African refugees in Kenya and Uganda and help them if you can.

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This is the story of how the Makur family came to Australia to live safely. I am Martin Majur Majak and I live with Martha Makur and our six children in Dorrigo, Northern NSW. We come from Yirol in Southern Sudan.

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Curriculum-linked learning resources for primary and secondary school teachers and students. Videos, games and interactives covering English, maths, history, science and more!

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Origins: History of immigration from Greece - Immigration Museum, Melbourne Australia

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You can make a digital story using different types of software programs, such as Photo Story, Movie Maker, PowerPoint or GarageBand on a Macintosh computer. These software programs allow you to record sound, add photos to make slideshows, add music and create special effects such as transitions.

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Saigon, Vietnam April 28th, 1959 Dear Diary, My name is Saige Le and i am 9 years old. I live in Vietnam in a small house with my twin (Martha), my younger sister (Kaylan),...

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Well also in the news lately we've been hearing a lot from politicians about the best way to deal with asylum seekers. But amongst all the arguing it's easy to forget that we're actually talking about real people. We caught up with a family of refugees as they arrived in Australia for the first time.