1. Australia and the Migrant Experience
... to Australia from their foreign land. Many of these texts express the same feelings of confusion, expressions of being given a new start in a new country, a country where there is a language barrier between the migrant and the citizens, making this challenge even more taunting. The poem ˜Migrant Woman on a Melbourne Tram' by Jennifer Strauss tries to communicate to the readers how ... of belonging to a group. This is a problem migrants face in Australia, the sense of being an "outsider " relative to the place is brought out in "A barrier at the main gate ". Here symbolism is used; the ...
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