Elaborations

• comparing push and pull factors that have contributed to people migrating to Australia (for example economic migrants and political refugees)
• exploring individual narratives using primary sources (for example letters, documents and historical objects); interviewing and recording an oral history; dramatising the journey and circumstances of arrival based on the sources
• describing cultural practices related to family life, beliefs and customs of newly-arrived migrant groups and comparing these with those of the communities in which they settled within Australia
• connecting stories of migration to students’ own family histories (where appropriate)