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The Estonian community in Australia in 1949 was estimated to be approximately 3,000 people. [4] Most Estonians who arrived in Australia following the end of World War Two came as 'Displaced Persons' or refugees who were leaving their homeland following the imposition of Soviet rule in 1944.
Sudanese migrants in Calais Jungle, June 2015. Migrants have gathered in and around Calais, on the northern French coast, since at least the late 1990s [1] seeking to enter the United Kingdom from the French port by crossing the Channel Tunnel [2] or stowing away in the cargo area of lorries heading for ferries that cross the English Channel. [3]
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With this massive influx of immigrants, France became an asylum for refugees. According to the convention in Geneva, refugee status was granted to four out of five immigrant applicants. Many of these refugees came from countries in Eastern Europe (i.e. Hungary) and Latin America, because they feared the dictatorship in their home countries.
News organisations and academic sources use both migrant crisis and refugee crisis to refer to the 2015 events, sometimes interchangeably. Some argued that the word migrant was pejorative or inaccurate in the context of people fleeing war and persecution because it implies most are emigrating voluntarily rather than being forced to leave their homes.
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