The effects and overall impression of a journey will depend on the characteristics of the particular trip undertaken. Migrant Hostel and Immigrants at Central station by Peter Skrzynecki are poems‚ which display the migrants experience illustrating the pathos of migrant families as they come to terms with a new and very foreign country. The poet successfully shows this through literary techniques and visual imagery emphasising the idea that moving countries process are not always perfect and offering
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The poem ‘Be good‚ Little migrants’ by Uyen Loewald is a darkly ironic perspective on what is expected of migrants in Australia. It explores the ways in which minority groups are exploited and patronised by society. The author uses simple and repetitive structure and accessible language to reinforce the poems meaning. This poem relates to justice as there is nothing fair about the way Australia behaved towards the Asian migrants when they first migrated to Australia. They were forced to work so
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Australian Human Rights Commission is an organisation in which targets protecting and promoting human rights all around Australia. Their mission is to make human rights values a necessity and a main part of everyday life‚ empowering all people to understand and exercise their human rights‚ and working with many other organisations‚ individuals‚ communities‚ and those affected. I believe that this organisation is a good representation of how Australia’s are doing their bit in order to help the less
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poem ‘Migrants’ be included for the text for Journeys. The poem ‘Migrants by ‘Bruce Dawe ’should be included for the core text for journeying as it portrays journeying through the perceptions and experiences of a migrant group. This poem depicts feelings of ignorance and disrespectfulness encountered by the migrant group as they are treated with a lack of concern by people living in Australia. The poem migrants explore a physical journey of a migrant group settling in a new place‚ Australia. We know
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SPECS SLIMS – Migrant Hostel Subject: Migrant Hostel is a poem composed by Peter Skrzynecki. It is a moving account of the experiences of migrants living in an overly-crowded lodge. The first stanza captures the temporary nature of the immigrants stay at the hostel; “comings and goings”‚ “arrivals of newcomers” and “sudden departures”. The second stanza goes on to express the cultural divisions existing within the hostel; “nationalities sought”. The next stanza reminds the responder of the seasonal
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“Same sex couples today have greater rights than they did in previous generations.” Every day in Australia‚ at least 20000 couples experience systematic discrimination on a daily basis. The Definition of “Civil Rights” in Dictionary.com (2016)‚ is defined as “Rights to personal liberty established by the 13th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and certain Congressional acts‚ especially as applied to an individual or a minority group.”‚ or “The rights to full legal‚ social‚ and economic
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Migrant Hostel The migrants which the poet depicts are those after WWII who were invited by the Australian Government to seek refuge in the provided migrant hostels. The poem has a sense of bitterness where the migrants have been taken out of their homeland and placed into an area isolated from the rest of the Australian society. The concept of belonging and not belonging are explored in this poem where the poem is able to relate his experience and put them into either one. Stanza 1) The poet explores
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Not belonging often goes hand in hand with feelings of despair‚ unease and uncertainty. “Migrant Hostel” demonstrates this feeling of angst and instability when the migrants are placed in an uninviting environment where fear of immigrants is predominant. The migrants’ insecurity and confusion is displayed through the rhetorical ‘who would be coming next’ in the first stanza. Furthermore‚ the fact that the stanza begins with “no one kept count” sets an ominous tone reflective of the hostile atmosphere
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Australia has come a long way from who they were back in the 90s‚ migrants acceptance levels have improved immensely from where they were with the ‘White Australia Policy’ to now Australia being one of the largest multicultural countries in the world with more than 185 different nationalities making their homes in Australia with equality‚ but the question I’m going to test is Did Australians treat non-European migrants more harshly than European migrants post-war? To say Australians weren’t accepting
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