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Migration and immigration

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Hanho Times newspapers spread over a table, with focus on the 3-year anniversary issue
Now online: South Korean community newspaper the Hanho Times

See some of the stories contained in the Hanho Times Korean community newsletter.

Blog
Black and white photo of British migrant women waving on the deck of a ship

London News Agency Photos Ltd, British women migrants aboard passenger ship, London, ca. 1920s, https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-138115134

Migration and sport

Topic

With new people and cultures come new ideas and practices. These could be new foods, new religions, new art forms or even new sports.

Digital Classroom
Collection guide
Lyle Collection

50 oral history recordings with 149 interviewees containing reminiscences, stories and music relating to Scottish oral traditions in Australia.

Collection guide
A sample of an emigration pass. It says 'Colonial Emigration Form, Man's Emigration Pass' with signatures and handwritten information.
Indian emigration passes to Fiji 1879 - 1916

Find out how to access over 60,000 passes issued to Indian people who came to Fiji as indentured labourers.

Research guide
Bottom half of a page in a diary with writing about seeing a mountain in the distance and a sketch of what it looked like

Diary of Robert Silby Bradley, 1867 April 22-July 22, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-234780216

Immigrant diaries (1822-1895)

Listing of immigrant diaries (1822-1895) held in the Manuscripts Collection

Information article
Group of men and women wearing traditional Polish clothing playing various instruments and smiling

Polish National Dance Group, 1950, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-141277226

Hopes and Fears: Soundtrack

Our Oral History collection includes recordings of original and traditional compositions performed by migrants, refugees and their descendants.

Exhibition
Headshots of Mariam Veiszadeh, Om Dhungel, Nyadol Nyuon OAM and Professor Brian Schmidt AC FAA FRS, and Claudia Chan Shaw.
Hopes and Fears: Australian Migration Stories panel discussion

Special guests held a conversation about their own stories around migration, and how our country can best recognise the extraordinary contribution of migrants to contemporary Australia.

Event
Video
Three framed photographs on a blue wall with a subtle wave pattern.
Hopes and Fears: Australian Migration Stories

Explore the journeys that have shaped our nation’s history in this exhibition.

Exhibition
The National Library of Australia building at dusk, lit up with colourful projections.
Home: Enlighten 2024 at the National Library

Learn about our Enlighten 2024 illuminations and find your home at your National Library.

Blog
Collection guide
Hall Collection

Personal papers and about 600 books and pamphlets from 1900-1960 on international relations, political biography, migration and more with a focus on the Commonwealth and United States. 

Collection guide
People watch lion dances in Chinatown Plaza in Adelaide

Jiayuan Liang, Chung Yee Tong Lion Dance Team performing lion dances, Chinese New Year, Chinatown, Adelaide, 2022, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3125334254

Growing Chinese Australian representation in the collection

Explore some of the recent additions to the collection representing the contribution of Australians with Chinese heritage.

Blog
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, including one full page and a cartoon, about the Gamboa family

Album of newspaper cuttings relating to the Gamboa family from the Papers of the Gamboa family, 1949–99, nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn997866

Gamboa: A family defined by race

Follow the story of Lorenzo Gamboa and his fight to return to his Australian-born wife and children after his deportation in 1946. 

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