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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.
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.
The United Kingdom-Australia Free and Assisted Passage Agreements became active in March 1947. Adults would only pay £ 10 towards their passage, and children aged 14–18 would be charged £ 5. A shipping shortage handicapped the program until 1948, but from 1947 to 1958, of 457,898 migrants moving from the United Kingdom to Australia, 68% ...
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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 ...
Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) is a term often used to refer to Filipino migrant workers, people with Filipino citizenship who reside in another country for a limited period of employment. [3] The number of these workers was roughly 1.77 million between April and September 2020.
[1] [2] The centre was run by Commonwealth Hostels Ltd, a non-profit company. By 1964 the centre housed 1,425 people, mainly from Britain and Europe. [3] By 1969 it was the largest migrant hostel in Australia, and was at that time housing migrants from Britain, The Netherlands, Denmark, West Germany, France, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and ...
Migrant hostels in Australia (17 P) Pages in category "Hostels in Australia" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.