Emigration

When Shen came to Australia three years ago, she didn't have much swimming experience. Now, she's teaching other migrants in regional New South Wales how to approach the water with confidence.

Officials in Oaxaca state say the dead, three of them minors, were from Venezuela and Haiti and were hoping to cross Mexico to start new lives in the United States. 

Migrations don't just happen, they're produced. It's a thread Alan Weedon followed as he retraced his mum Jesusita's story after her death.

Long called the happiest nation of Earth, Bhutan cut itself off from foreigners until the 1970s. Now, people are leaving the hermit kingdom – mainly to Australia.

Edith Emery's life reads like something from a Hollywood movie script — a successful career as a doctor cut short by Hitler's invasion of Austria, a long-distance romance that landed her in a prisoner of war camp, and her final chapter, breaking new ground in Tasmania.

One in six migrants are paid less than the national minimum wage and the exploitation is also undercutting local workers, according to a new report by the Grattan Institute.

Pubs in Australia's Top End are filling all bar positions this tourist season following a years-long, COVID-induced workforce shortage. It comes as changes to working holiday visas take effect in northern Australia.

Fresh evidence has emerged about the overseas colony of Indigenous Australians in Indonesia in the 19th century.

Migrants say coming to Australia is costing them tens of thousands of dollars.

Advocacy groups are calling on the federal government to allow visa extensions and laws to protect migrants workers fighting dodgy employers.

Data from the Migrant Justice Institute has found three quarters of migrant workers earn below the minimum wage.

Three-and-a-half years ago, Shravan Nagesh relocated to Australia looking for better prospects and opportunities. Instead he found disillusionment and disappointment.

The discovery of a trove of black and white photographs has sparked an international mystery involving a little-known settlement of Aboriginal Australians in Asia. Erin Parke reports.

A shootout in Serbia leads to police discovering 600 migrants near the Hungarian border. 

Recalling the first 18 years of her life in Australia's largest post-WWII migrant centre is a positive exercise for Krystyna Mills, whose story is among many highlighted in a new exhibition to honour its 75th anniversary.

Australia has an engineer shortage, but half of all qualified migrant engineers in Australia still cannot get work in the field.

As the world mourns the death of Britain's longest-serving monarch, those from former colonies are reminded of the pain and bloodshed which occurred under British rule.

A surging number of Lebanese, Syrians, and Palestinians have tried to flee crisis-hit Lebanon by sea to Europe.

The Chinese influence on Australian goldfields is often forgotten or overlooked, however, to their descendants, they are venerated as hardworking and resilient entrepreneurs. 

Many people are unaware of the history of the Afghan cameleers in Australia and their early contribution to society.

Thousands of skilled migrant workers feel "used" and "mentally drained" as they wait years to have their visa applications processed.

My childhood memories include hunger and thirst, dust storms, bites from scorpions, outbreaks of malaria and cholera — and violence. I spent most of my childhood growing up in one of the most remote refugee camps in the world, writes Akuch Kuol Anyieth.

Odesa has meant romance and terror for as long as I can remember. Now another generation of refugees are fleeing terror — this time from war and occupation, writes Norman Swan.

Liz thought her background in medicine would help her plan childbirth, but without an interpreter present at the hospital, she left traumatised.

Queenstown's main street is reminiscent of a bygone era — once the hub of a booming mining town but now with many buildings fallen into disrepair.