Human migration is NOT unidirectional — from Global South to Global North — , has never been.
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The pandemic has highlighted our expat population. And yet we don't have precise or up-to-date information about Australians overseas.
There has been an Australian diasporic community in Myanmar, well before the southeast Asian "opened up" to the world again, in 2010. Two prominent members of this diaspora deserve a special mention each.
In the noughties, Ross Dunkley an Australian businessman founded the English language newspaper 'Myanmar Times' which later became one of the leading English language newspaper there. He's been in trouble with the law in Myanmar, convicted of using/possessing illicit drugs.
Australian Ross Dunkley was a media tycoon in south-east Asia until police raided his house in Yangon. He was released and flown to Australi
Another is the Australian academic and former aide to Aung San Suu Kyi, Sean Turnell. The junta detained him on trumped-up charges. (Ie, They just loathe him for working very closely with Suu Kyi.)
A recently released prisoner in Myanmar says Sean Turnell is inside Yangon’s notorious main jail but was “in good health” when he met with h
Burma of late 19th century-1965 and of 2010-pandemic era hosted/hosts diasporic communities, from Afghanis to Zimbabweans and everyone else in between including Aussies and my favourite the Irish.