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Who’s involved
The Migration Heritage Centre in collaboration with Liverpool Health Service (Liverpool Multicultural Health Service and Liverpool Health Service Arts & Cultural Enrichment Program) and the NSW Refugee Health Service.
When and where
Project location: Liverpool, south-western Sydney
Project status: Completed project
Date of completion: July 2003
Project description
Everyday, people from a range of cultural backgrounds come to work at our local hospitals. Hospitals are a central point in many communities and one of the few remaining large-scale workplaces in our society. Liverpool Health Service, in Sydney’s southwest, serves one of the most culturally diverse populations in Australia. In turn, many of its staff have come to Australia as migrants or refugees – reflecting the community they serve.
Real Stories: People and Cultures at Work gives us an insight into the lives, work, successes and frustrations of people from migrant and refugee backgrounds in the Australian workforce. It documents the challenges, joy and despair of migrating and establishing a livelihood and a working life in a new country.
An interviewer, filmmaker and photographer worked with almost 40 staff from across Liverpool Health Service, from migrant and refugee backgrounds, to look at:
the different skills, knowledge and ideas that people from a range of cultural backgrounds bring to their work;
the experiences of working in a culturally diverse workplace; and
the experiences of staff from migrant and refugee backgrounds in migrating, settling, finding work, having qualifications recognised and studying or retraining in Australia.
What did the project achieve?
Real Stories produced:
a background report;
a series of oral histories;
an exhibition containing personal stories and photographs;
a short film to be used in cross-cultural training; and
an online exhibition, Real Stories: People and Cultures at Work Online.
Through their use in cross-cultural training and general distribution, these products aim to highlight the contribution of people from migrant and refugee backgrounds to workplaces across Australia.
If you would like to know more about this project or how to obtain any of the products listed above, please contact us on the details below.
Real Stories is a cultureworks project, an initiative of the Migration Heritage Centre.
Project contact
John Petersen – Manager
Migration Heritage Centre
Phone +61 2 9217 0625
Fax +61 2 9217 0628
Email johnp@phm.gov.au
Address:
PO Box K346
Haymarket NSW 1238
AUSTRALIA
Website
www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au
