Ephraim Osaghae – författare

Migration is still top on the list of life-changing decisions anyone can make. Between complex immigration processes and successful settling in the new country is a chasm that swallows the unfortunate and the ignorant. So, while some migrants find green pastures, many are lost in the desert of "survival" jobs and trapped in the vicious cycle of frustration.

From two decades of lived experiences (as a skilled immigrant himself, residential professional, and expat work in Africa, Australia, The Middle East, Europe, USA, and Asia, and his extensive NGO work), Ephraim Osaghae addresses tough questions about navigating your new country for successful and stable careers.

He believes that when you learn from real stories of real people and selfless insiders, you can prepare yourself better on how to deal with change, relocation, and other major shifts in life. You can take the necessary actions to maximize gains, minimize pains, and achieve your goals.

This quick and easy-to-read guide book:

•Unpacks the foundational principles of maximizing your strengths, managing your weaknesses, and achieving your goals.

•Reveals master frameworks for communication, qualifications, work experience, and networking.

•Teaches you to understand the critical place of showing up!

While intending, new and relatively more settled immigrants are the ideal audience for this book, non-immigrants and other stakeholders will also find useful hints and tips for job-seeking and cultural intelligence.

Immigrants are people who have moved to new countries in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens. This valuable resource is primarily for them; especially those having doubts about their potentials and entrepreneurial skills, and applying the advantages in their new locations.

Give a man (or a woman) a fish and you feed him for a day;

Teach a man (or a woman) to fish and you feed him for a lifetime;

What about the man or woman owning a pond or two containing fishes?

This book provides exclusive insights into Migrapreneurs (migrants + entrepreneurship), the who, what, why, and how. It will inform, inspire, and challenge readers to courageously exploit the advantages of their diversity in the context of entrepreneurship and business. They can take charge of their destinies by creating robust options while depending less on the already challenged economic and social welfare systems in the new countries.

Before you start reading, please prepare your mind for a journey that requires discipline and focus. What this book offers you is a path most immigrants don''t take due to can''t-do mindset, scarcity mentality, fear of the unknown, and lack of appropriate support. Reading this book, and taking prescribed actions, will assuredly provide you with a trigger for getting on the path to greatness.

A Reflective Guide for Meaningful and Whole-Life Experience

Immigrants are important contributors to the success and growth of many countries. But they face series of challenges before they can fully attain social and economic balance while integrating into their new countries. These challenges are real, and to some, they have become sources of worry and despair. This reflective guide provides some practical solutions based on anecdotes from someone that has walked the path - someone who is keen to share lessons learned so that it will be more comfortable and more rewarding for others.

In this book, you will find stories and useful information about the following:

•The benefits of immigration to emigrants, nations and the wider community.

•Connecting with the heart, hope and faith behind the giant leap of emigration as the author provides a reflection of the key drivers for his decision to relocate to the land Down Under.

•Learning to thrive and communicate effectively despite initial culture shocks and gaps in languages.

•How to manage potential loss of previous qualifications and reinventing for new education and skills for competitive edge.

•Practical steps in finding employment even with the uncertainties associated with having the right local network and work experience.

•The challenges and lessons regarding family life including raising children and youth.

•The essential aspects and preparation for aging and retirement including the vital roles of ethnic communities and leadership.

You will find great value from reading this book if you are:

•An intending, new or emerging immigrant looking for wisdom, tips and inspiration for successful emigration and living a life of meaning and balance in your new country.

•A more resident immigrant looking for further guidance on how to become more established while managing changes and unique issues relating to job seeking, careers, families in diaspora, and contributing to growth and development in your new country.

•Non-immigrants, international and local students, government agencies, policymakers, service providers and community leaders. We all can add to our cultural intelligence.

Policymakers, service providers and local residents in destination countries will particularly find this book useful in helping them understand the typical lived experience of immigrants a bit more. Lack of awareness may be responsible for many actions that are sometimes perceived as racial discrimination. This book can provide some information to enable people to enter into the world of the immigrant, which hopefully can trigger empathy, better multicultural communications and integration.

Finally, by reading this book, intending, new and emerging immigrants can seek to maximise the benefits of immigration. They would not have to reinvent the wheel of challenges, pains and losses associated with lack of guidance. This book is a type of advance mentoring tool in that regards.

Every human being is part of a bigger family, which is figuratively represented by the family tree. We have roots that extend beyond places and cultures of our current residences. This is particularly true for people in diaspora. Our roots still weigh a lot into our everyday living irrespective of geographical distance and time. Thus, would it not be beneficial to know and explore the advantages in our roots and avoid losing out, and losing deep? This is the main message of this book, "Voices from Home: Wisdom from our Diasporic Roots."

•This book will provide inspiration, some incentives, and a compass for teachable minds to explore and tap into the wealth of their roots.

•It provides insights on the key dynamics and interplay of cultures, underpinning motivations, and extended family structures of typical first-generation migrants.

•It informs global audiences about lived experiences of people of migrant backgrounds starting with the Australian context.

•It contributes to the value-adding conversations around the themes of identity, cross-cultural intelligence, sustainable migration, etc.

•It provides hints and tips for relevant policy makers, service providers, and other government officials, especially in the areas of sustainable migration.

•It is a resource material for intending, new, and emerging migrants as part of preparations for their migration journeys, as well as references for lessons learnt so they can position themselves for more meaningful experiences.

Contributing Authors: Maria Shyllon, Niche Deng, Esther Batty, Solotin Santana, Gracia Ngandu, Abraham Oyewopo, Joy Ngandu, Fatiha Enilari, Keyshiaa Menezes, Ify Okiwelu, Joshuaa Menezes, Efe Osaghae, Odaro Osaghae, Victor Komaiya, Marcus Wilson, Osamu Ekhator, Saskia Wilson, and King David Oyewopo.

A Glimpse into the World of Migrant Youth. A vibrant group of multicultural youth group presents what it takes to make it as a young migrant - to live to the fullest, to achieve your dreams and to enjoy the experience. Prepare yourself for insights, stories and lessons from their lives, and the acumen they have gathered from the LiME Project.

New and emerging teenagers of migrant backgrounds will find this book particularly useful. Often, lots of support and guidance is available for parents and adults as they become residents of a new country. However, less attention is given to younger migrants. This gap can create detrimental consequences for the youth including social isolation, loss of direction and focus, feeling unsupported and uprooted, helplessness, frustration and irritation due to changes in circumstances, experiencing identity crises, etc.

All young people, migrants as well as those who are already established in the new country will find information in this book very useful. And they can use it to inspire others as well.

Parents, mentors, teachers and school administrators will find valuable tips and suggestions in this book that will help them in their ongoing efforts to make great leaders of their children, mentees and students.

The content in this book will also provide government office holders, policy makers and service providers with real stories and lived experiences from young people themselves.

Finally, while Australia is the context for this book, the principles and lessons are applicable across the globe.

Family in the context of migration and cultural diversity is rarely discussed at the gates of ideas today. Search Amazon or Google, and you''ll be amazed at how well we''ve avoided this subject. Yet, a happy home is critical to life abroad or anywhere for that matter.

Resident in Australia, Ephraim Osaghae, has taken the lid off several hot migration topics in his books. MIGRATION AND FAMILY is one of his best works.

Few matters in life go deep, wide, and have a lasting impact like family. Ignoring what happens to the family unit means treating symptoms without removing the source of illness or cutting the branches without touching the roots.

Drawing from the depth of researched insights and lived experiences, Ephraim:

Ephraim is not shifting blames. He''s providing timely wisdom for multicultural individuals, families, and communities, as well as colleagues, neighbours, service providers, and other stakeholders. Pick this book and get one for someone. You''ll look back and thank yourself.

The stakes have rarely been higher for youth leadership and empowerment in this era. You''re reading a book earning widespread attention for its significant contribution to the solutions. 

As LiME founder and project leader, Ephraim Osaghae is fixing leadership from the roots. He has helped talented youth win the battles against identity issues, conflicting priorities, low self-worth, lack of motivation, and underperformance. He has also inspired achievers to attain greater heights. 

In this book, Ephraim shows how leading from inside-out can empower one for the change that positively impacts one''s world. Using LiME as a case study and model, this book is a call to action for young people and people of other age groups willing to learn and grow. It provides authentic frameworks for:

Are you seeking to elevate intentionality, self-discovery and leadership for yourself, someone, or a group? Then, grab this book and learn through shared realities and documentaries of how LiMErs have unleashed their greatness.

Written for all ages and cultural backgrounds, this extraordinary story takes less than three hours of listening time, but the insights can last a lifetime, with knowledge you can hand down to future generations.

This book reveals hard and unknown truths about relocation, change, and integration. It focuses on crucial tactics to adopt and adapt to achieve your goals for the big move. The author of the book writes from two decades of personal experiences and research in relocating from Africa to Australia - the many successes to enjoy, the pitfalls to avoid, and principles for guidance.

The narrative includes snippets from his in-depth interactions with diverse members of the community, including immigrants, students, professionals, locals, service providers, workers, business people, government officials, and policymakers.

When you know the real stories of real people, you can prepare yourself better on how to deal with change. You can be careful not to repeat mistakes and go on with less stress and more success in your journey, even as you consider your family, career, and healthy ageing.

There is so much that is different about the Western world. As migrants, we need to shift our mind-sets and approaches if we are to integrate well. Everything from our sociocultural practices - such as disciplining children - to our geopolitical outlook, needs to be revisited. But even so, we need to maintain a balance - not forgetting our roots, culture, and heritage.

Nonimmigrants will find useful hints and tips in reading this book given the increasing need for cultural integration in our schools, workplaces, neighbourhoods, and communities.