“Where we were living was like a war zone … it’s been happening for generations and that hasn’t stopped yet, it just keeps going.” Rabecca Ditt was only a few months’ old when her family first had to escape the dangers of war. Born in South Sudan, Miss Ditt, her mother and brother had to…
Details“Sao Paulo is hard to explain because it’s not like a dangerous place but it’s not like a safe place either. At any moment anything could happen with you; you could be kidnapped … I wasn’t happy there.” Daniel Alexander Silver immigrated from Sao Paulo, Brazil, six years ago with the dream of escaping mayhem…
Details“Life was hard (in Uganda) but Australian life is better because you get more freedom.” Congo and Uganda are just two countries within central Africa that are subject to war, employment scarcity, below average wages and a range of socio-economic issues. Having been born in Congo, Jean Paul Nani, 20, knows this all too well.…
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“My dad really wanted me to go abroad and study … It was his dream to send me overseas and get a good start.” At the young age of 18 Hatim Hussain decided to leave the comfort of his home and family in Pakistan for a better life in Australia. Twelve years later, with a business…
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“It’s not easy to apply for a job. We had to start from the bottom, we struggled a lot.” Liza Palomata and her husband Ding Dong had never left their home country of the Philippines until they moved to Kuwait in 1995. Their decision was motivated by a sense of adventure, but more so due…
Details“I came here looking for peace … I’m happy with everything.” Teklemariam Mengistu would have been forced to fight in the Eritrean army if he and his family had not migrated from the North East African country to Australia in July 2013. Compulsory conscription in Eritrea was introduced in 1955 for both males and females.…
Details“Neither my parents nor myself will go back to Guatemala in the future because there’s no safety at all and our standard of living is much better now”. Thousands of people immigrate to the “land of unlimited opportunity” every year in pursuit of a job and a better standard of living. But how difficult is…
Details“The biggest reason (to come to Australia) was for a better life, for better pay and also to move out of Fiji, which has got a lot of political instability.” Binesh Kumar grew up and lived in Fiji for most of his life. Mr Kumar, now 45, always dreamed of living in an advanced country…
Details“The US had better hospitals, and they also thought that having the US nationality could be useful for me in the future.” In 1994 the Spanish couple Antonio Florez and Covadonga Del Valle moved to Latin America and bought a boat to sail around the continent. During one of these trips, Covadonga realised she was pregnant.…
DetailsThe world’s population is constantly on the move, with people crossing borders and oceans in search of a better life.
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