The Igbo people are relatively new arrivals to Western Australia. Igbo people, one of the three major ethnic groups in Nigeria, started arriving in Western Australia in the 1980s, mainly as students, and by the 1990s, more arrived as skilled migrants. However, there wasn’t a steady flow of Igbos into Western Australia until the early 2000’s when the mining boom in WA fuelled an influx of new students and migrant workers.