The migrants are, after all, coming here of their own free will, in search of a better life.

Then, in the 1870s, Russian migrants came to the region.

Around this time of year, he said, 10,000 or so migrants come for the fall planting season.

In this case, any migrant could come to Australia free of charge.

There are changes, too, in where Chinese migrants are coming from.

As rural migrants come to work in the factories, poor women follow to sexually service the men.

Early migrants came in trickles one family at a time over many decades.

But many migrants come from the professional class - doctors, engineers and professors.

And that includes pressing on with solving the problems in the countries from which the migrants come.

The Chinese migrants came to this country to seek a better life.