Migrants should never be pushed apart, expert warns

By Dewi Cooke, for The Age

Ethnic communities provide mental health advantage

Chinatown. Image: stock.xchng.com

Chinatown. Image: stock.xchng.com

CLOSE-KNIT ethnic communities should be seen as sources of social and emotional support for new migrants, not examples of their poor integration with mainstream society, an international migration expert has said.

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