Category
Immigration Reality
The emotional and psychological truth of immigration. The parts that don't make it onto Instagram. The parts that make you question everything — and eventually make you stronger.
Years 2 & 3 Crisis
The adrenaline is gone. The novelty is gone. This is when the real work begins.
Immigration & Marriage
The pressure that moving puts on a relationship — and how to survive it together.
Kids Between Cultures
Raising children who are neither fully from here nor fully from there.
Identity Crisis
Who are you when you're no longer who you were?
Homesickness
You don't miss the country. You miss the life you had there.
Living Between Two Worlds
Neither fully here nor fully there — and learning to make peace with that.
"The first year is survival. Not living. Everyone expects that. But years two and three — that's when the real crisis begins. The adrenaline is gone. The novelty is gone. And you're left with just your life."
Honest Stories
Why We Moved: The Story Before the Flight
Every immigrant story starts long before the plane takes off. For almost two decades, we believed we could change things. But somewhere between one protest and the next, something inside me went quiet. Not defeated — just… tired.
Read article →
April 2026 · 10 min read
It Takes a Few Years to Settle as an Immigrant. This is How I Did It.
Three small kids, five suitcases, borrowed money for the first semester of my Master's. We jumped into the unknown. Together. Almost 13,000 kilometres from Belgrade to Perth. This is how we built a completely new life.
Read article →
June 2023 · 4 min read
Six Lessons From My Immigration Journey to Australia
You don't start from zero. You start from sub-zero. After 15 years of marketing for Pampers, Coca-Cola and Always, I arrived in Australia and cleaned offices for three years. Here's what that taught me.
Read article →
April 2023 · 7 min read
Ten Things About Me: The Immigrant Version
I survived NATO bombarding, became a breast milk donor, filmed a Pampers TVC, and moved my family 13,000 km across the world at 40. Here are ten things about the woman behind Aussie Immigrants.
Read article →
September 2023 · 6 min read
My Broken English Is My Superpower, Not My Shame
I started writing publicly because of shame. Five years in Australia and my English was still awkward. I occasionally sounded like a drunk Russian. Then I realised: the bottom line is that my English will always be better than their Serbian.
Read article →
May 2024 · 4 min read
Immigration Is Not a Move. It's a Rebirth.
Nobody tells you that the hardest part isn't the visa, the flight, or the first week. The hardest part is the quiet Tuesday morning when you realise you don't know who you are anymore.
Read article →
March 2025 · 6 min read