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The Immigrant Networks exhibition at the Museo Italiano in Melbourne showcased the significant contributions made by non-Anglophone migrants to Australia's industrial development. The exhibition explored themes of diaspora, nostalgia, everyday racism, and hard work, highlighting personal stories of individual hardship and their impact on the nation's industry and urban landscape. Divided into four sections, the exhibition covered topics such as migrant camps, the Snowy Hydro Scheme, the Port Kembla Steelworks, and the transformation of Melbourne's suburbs. It also touched on the experiences of Chinese and Southeast Asian immigrants in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as the history of Woomera as a temporary home for World War II refugees. While the exhibition was praised for its micro-histories and documentation of key historical sites, it was noted that a more comprehensive account would be beneficial. [Extracted from the article]

The purpose of the article is to discuss a few aspects of a very old, but current phenomenon: migration. The state we are focusing our approach on is Germany, a European country with approximately 81 million inhabitants, with the most developed European economy of the moment, which was, is and will be a state for immigration, as well as emigration, determined, along history, both by the local economic evolution, as well as the socio-political phenomena within the history of this country. Starting with 2014, Germany has become the declared destination of refugees in the Near East, whose number has permanently increased, even throughout 2015. This phenomenon was and continues to be influenced by multiple factors, which receive, at the beginning of the XXI century, as a result of planetary, but mainly regional political developments, new valences, with consequences that cannot be completely foreseen and, therefore, there can be no taken preemptive measures meant to prevent possible negative aspects at the level of local communities, as well as at global level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Secularisation theory would suggest that with increasing economic development, industrialisation and modernity, the influence of the church should be waning. However, more recent theories regarding religiosity in times of personal and contextual insecurity have suggested that secularisation is not a linear process. Existential security theory predicts that religiosity and religious practice are higher in times of insecurity. Given the economic crisis of 2008, the changes in many governments and subsequent austerity measures, it could be argued that all households in austerity countries are facing more uncertain times than they were before 2008, both personally and contextually. However, analysis of Irish, Spanish and Portuguese data from the European Social Survey (2002-12) using ordinary least squares regression and logistic regression generally does not support this theory in terms of contextual insecurity. There is some support for the link between personal insecurity and religiosity; recent immigrants are significantly and substantially more religious in terms of subjective religiosity, frequency of prayer and frequency of attendance at religious services than earlier immigrants and those who were born in a country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]