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British migrants who needed longer-term accommodation would be housed at Workers' Hostels. [1] In January 1952 "Commonwealth Hostels Limited" took over management of the Colmslie Migrant Hostel. Although it was policy that assisted British migrants should live at hostels, there were also non-British migrants at Colmslie in the late 1950s.
Finsbury (Pennington) Hostel - Opening in January 1950, it was first known as the Finsbury Hostel and renamed Pennington Hostel in October 1966. [4] It was established by the Commonwealth Migrant Workers Accommodation Division in 1950 and was located on Grand Junction Road , between Addison Road and Glenroy Street.
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Martial law in the Philippines, declared by former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos in 1972, and the renunciation of the White Australia policy made Australia an attractive destination for Filipino emigrants, particularly skilled workers. Many Filipinos also settled in Australia from the 1970s onward as either migrant workers or the ...
By 2009, the Filipino population in Singapore increased to 163,090, [5] and between 2010 and 2012, about 45,450 more Filipinos were newly hired into Singapore. [5] Due to the influx of Filipino domestic workers in the early 2000s, there was the stereotype of Filipinos being domestic workers among Singaporeans and this was portrayed in a ...
Balgownie Migrant Workers Hostel is a heritage-listed former migrant hostel at Squires Way, Fairy Meadow, in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. It was built from 1950 to 1951 by Concrete Constructions Pty Ltd. The surviving remnants of the hostel are Huts 201, 204 and 210. It is also known as the Fairy Meadow Migrant Hostel.
Yungaba Immigration Centre is a heritage-listed former immigration hostel at 102 Main Street, Kangaroo Point, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, alongside the Brisbane River. It was designed by John James Clark and built c. 1885 by William Peter Clark. It is also known as Yungaba Immigration Depot, Immigration Barracks, and No.6 ...
Due to the 2018 Kuwait–Philippine diplomatic crisis the Philippines banned the deployment of Filipino workers to Kuwait in February 2018. [8] Deployment of "skilled" and "semi-skilled" were allowed on May 12 [ 9 ] and the ban was completely lifted on May 16.