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[h=2]India’s Australian dream[/h]
August 24th, 2012 |
Author: Online Press
BBC News- 22 August 2012
India has surged ahead of China and Britain as the largest source of settlers to Australia, but can skilled migrants from the sub-continent forever resist the magnetic appeal of their homeland?
Many are students who are seduced by one of the world’s great “lifestyle powers” and go on to thrive under the cobalt skies of their adopted homeland.
The latest figures show that 29,000 Indians, most of them qualified professionals, including software engineers and cooks, became permanent residents in Australia, which is more than 15% of the total intake according to the 2011-12 Migration Programme report.
But homesickness and a hankering for familiar haunts and faces can be unsettling for both new and old arrivals.
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Read more here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-19091551
BBC News- 22 August 2012
India has surged ahead of China and Britain as the largest source of settlers to Australia, but can skilled migrants from the sub-continent forever resist the magnetic appeal of their homeland?
Many are students who are seduced by one of the world’s great “lifestyle powers” and go on to thrive under the cobalt skies of their adopted homeland.
The latest figures show that 29,000 Indians, most of them qualified professionals, including software engineers and cooks, became permanent residents in Australia, which is more than 15% of the total intake according to the 2011-12 Migration Programme report.
But homesickness and a hankering for familiar haunts and faces can be unsettling for both new and old arrivals.
.
Read more here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-19091551
