Personal Narrative On Migration To Australia
Migration to Australia
I remember, July 1997, the beginning of the International Financial crisis. Started from Thailand and spread to other countries in South East Asia including my home country, South Korea. During the crisis many families of South Korea experienced hardships through loss of jobs, the destruction of their financial securities and many more. Of course my family did not get excluded from this event. My father and my mother lost their jobs which ended them up to work as a part time cleaner. Then, eventually my brother, sister and I had to stop our schooling as a result.
Having hardly any money in our hands was harder than I thought. Therefore, due to this event our family decided to migrate to another country for a brighter …show more content…
future. After researching about many countries we decided that Australia was the right country for us. Australia offered financial securities and many job opportunities for skilled migrants, which included my dad. We thought that this was the perfect country for our family to move to.
When we arrived in Australia it was the opposite to the environment that my family used to live in. First of all, the seasons were the exact opposite to the ones in Korea. If it was Winter there, it would be Summer in Australia. Finding work for my father was very easy too as he was classified as a skilled migrant.
As soon as we were settled in our new home, my siblings and I were able to attend school again.
It was very hard, though, as it was a totally new language we had to speak and different rules that we had to follow. For the first few weeks of school I just stayed by myself. The language barrier was too big for me to break it. Luckily after about a month I began to pick up simple words and began to make friends. They would evite me over to their places and their parents were very kind too. They told me that if my family and I needed anything we could come to them for help. Most people were very nice but there were those who just could not accept us. It was just hard for me to avoid racism. But from what I heard from the few South Korean immigrants that moved to Australia before us told us that it was worse then. The policy of multiculturalism at least helped with how migrants from all of the world were treated. One of my friends that had migrated to Australia from England ages ago told me that it was easier for her to get used to the lifestyle as it was very similar to the lifestyle which she was used to. The immigration experience of my friend and I can be seen as different as I had come from a whole new country with different
cultures.
My whole family agreed that migrating to Australia was a very decision as it stabilised out financial security and gave us a fresh new start in our life. I was hard to settle first but consequently we were able to fit in well. So, that was my experience of immigrating to Australia.
I remember, July 1997, the beginning of the International Financial crisis. Started from Thailand and spread to other countries in South East Asia including my home country, South Korea. During the crisis many families of South Korea experienced hardships through loss of jobs, the destruction of their financial securities and many more. Of course my family did not get excluded from this event. My father and my mother lost their jobs which ended them up to work as a part time cleaner. Then, eventually my brother, sister and I had to stop our schooling as a result.
Having hardly any money in our hands was harder than I thought. Therefore, due to this event our family decided to migrate to another country for a brighter …show more content…
future. After researching about many countries we decided that Australia was the right country for us. Australia offered financial securities and many job opportunities for skilled migrants, which included my dad. We thought that this was the perfect country for our family to move to.
When we arrived in Australia it was the opposite to the environment that my family used to live in. First of all, the seasons were the exact opposite to the ones in Korea. If it was Winter there, it would be Summer in Australia. Finding work for my father was very easy too as he was classified as a skilled migrant.
As soon as we were settled in our new home, my siblings and I were able to attend school again.
It was very hard, though, as it was a totally new language we had to speak and different rules that we had to follow. For the first few weeks of school I just stayed by myself. The language barrier was too big for me to break it. Luckily after about a month I began to pick up simple words and began to make friends. They would evite me over to their places and their parents were very kind too. They told me that if my family and I needed anything we could come to them for help. Most people were very nice but there were those who just could not accept us. It was just hard for me to avoid racism. But from what I heard from the few South Korean immigrants that moved to Australia before us told us that it was worse then. The policy of multiculturalism at least helped with how migrants from all of the world were treated. One of my friends that had migrated to Australia from England ages ago told me that it was easier for her to get used to the lifestyle as it was very similar to the lifestyle which she was used to. The immigration experience of my friend and I can be seen as different as I had come from a whole new country with different
cultures.
My whole family agreed that migrating to Australia was a very decision as it stabilised out financial security and gave us a fresh new start in our life. I was hard to settle first but consequently we were able to fit in well. So, that was my experience of immigrating to Australia.