Memory and Family in Australian Refugee Histories
Alexandra Dellios, "Memory and Family in Australian Refugee Histories"
English | ISBN: 0367332582 | 2019 | 132 pages | EPUB | 1000 KB
English | ISBN: 0367332582 | 2019 | 132 pages | EPUB | 1000 KB
This book revisits Australian histories of refugee arrivals and settlement – with a particular focus on family and family life. It brings together new empirical research, and methodologies in memory and oral history, to offer multilayered histories of people seeking refuge in the 20th century.
Engaging with histories of refugees and ‘family’, and how these histories intersect with aspects of memory studies ― including oral history, public storytelling, family history, and museum exhibitions and objects ― the book moves away from a focus on individual adults and towards multilayered and rich histories of groups with a variety of intersectional affiliations. The contributions consider the conflicting layers of meaning built up around racialised and de-racialised refugee groups throughout the 20
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