If you Like this Podcast, Please Subscribe to the Displaced African Podcast

If you click here, you’ll watch a free video I created that shows you how to subscribe to the Displaced African podcast (which is updated once a week).

The Podcast Interview

Things Covered

1) Introduction, why and how she arrived in Melbourne Australia

2) Did she arrive in the country with the intention of returning to her home country, Kenya?

Employment

3) Impressions on employment and employment opportunities

4) How the Australian labor market accepts Africans and people who have worked in Africa

5) Tips for overcoming initial hurdles you may face in regards to employment.

6) CRUCIAL TIP: Tips for leveraging FREE existing government support and resources when entering the job market

Racism and Race Relations

7) Her impressions on racism in the community and the workplace

8 ) Tips on racism for new immigrants

Culture

9) Her impressions on the cultural mix of Australia.

10) What she has gained from the culture of Australia

Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle

11) Comparisons between her ability to maintain a healthy lifestyle in Australia and in her home country, Kenya.

Education

12) Fantastic thoughts on the Australian education system and comparisons with the Kenyan education system

13) Tips for parents raising children in Melbourne in terms of education. Compare this with the way Stella Mwangi aka STL was raised. Definitely worth thinking about taking control of teaching one’s child language and maths and not leaving that up to the State.

Raising Children in Melbourne

14) Challenges and insights

15) The difference in relationship between raising a child in Kenya and in Melbourne.

Websites Mentioned

1) KUMON

2) Kip Mcgraph

3) Centrelink

4) Job Network

5) New Enterprise Incentive Scheme

Hope this is of service to you,

Mwangi

Hello,

This one is a very light-hearted phone conversation between myself and my two younger sisters. This one is for anyone who might be thinking of or is raising some immigrant kids. Hope you derive some value from it.

The Stats

Ages: 10 (11 on 16/6/2008) and 14

Occupations: 10 year old is in primary school, 14 year old is in high school.

The Interview

The Text Version

Opinions on Melbourne from Children(pdf version)

You need Adobe Reader to read the document above

Among the things covered are:

1) Making friends

2) Race and relationships

3) Cultural differences

4) The way children treat their parents

5) Is it easy to stay healthy?

6) The first thing you see when you exit Melbourne airport

7) Obesity and the girl with sugar water

Make Sure You Subscribe to the Podcast

I have scheduled interviews with experts and people from all over the African diaspora. To receive word as soon as i have published these interviews make sure you subscribe to the Displaced African podcast via either RSS or by searching for “Displaced African” on Itunes.

Be blessed and bless others,

Mwangi

On the advice to Mzeiya, I thought I would try and get a few more recordings where folks give you their views of Melbourne so that you can get as wide a view as possible of what Melbourne is.

Today’s Guest

Age: 22
Sex: Female
Arrived in Melbourne just five months ago and currently doing her first semester of University

The Interview

Things covered:
1) Introduction and opening opinions
2) Employment
3) Racism
4) Culture
5) Facilities that Encourage Health
6) The second recording is on Education. I realized I hadn’t asked her opinions on it, so I called her right back and got her to talk about it for a little bit.

If You Want to Help

If you want to give me your opinions on your city, I am more than willing to interview you via Skype, on my dime of course.So contact me or let me know if you’re interested.

To ensure you receive word as soon as other immigrant’s give their opinions on their towns, stay subscribed to the Displaced African (tDA) via:
1) Email or
2) RSS (Learn what RSS is by clicking here)

From the land down under though I was born some place up over,
Mwangi

Hi,

Mzeiya, at the risk of sounding redundant, thank you very much for reminding me the type of articles I started up this blog to write in the first place.

And so I begin a series known as:

What is the Best City to Immigrate to?

The way I will answer that question is by going city by city and talking to immigrants in as many socioeconomic and age groups as possible and asking them their opinions on:

a) Employment

b) Racism

c) The culture of the land

e) Facilities that allow someone to maintain a healthy lifestyle (if there is something I may have missed that you think is important, leave a comment below and I will add it to the list of questions).

Today’s Interviewee: Me

Considering I am an immigrant and I am the most available guest I will start with me. Below are my stats:

Age group: Early 20s

Socioeconomic status: Minimum wage employment. Old enough to be a college graduate; college dropout

Any feedback on how to improve this series and make it more useful to you is much appreciated. Enjoy

The Interview

Employment

To further illustrate just how ridiculously low unemployment is in Victoria (the federal state that Melbourne is in), check out the article below:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/08/2238909.htm

Some articles on the nursing shortage in Australia:

From the Australian Newspaper

From News Website

From Express India Website

If anyone has any more articles to submit to prove my point, please feel free to submit them. I thank you for bearing with me as I stumble through this whole podcasting thing, I think at some point I have to attend classes to learn how to slow down.

To receive the latest interviews on the various immigrant cities throughout the world, make sure you stay tuned via RSS or email.