Memory and Family in Australian Refugee Histories

ISBN-13: 9780367332587 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 124 str.

Alexandra Dellios

Opis

This book revisits Australian histories of refugee arrivals and settlement, with a focus on family. It brings together new research in memory and oral history to offer multilayered histories of refugees in the 20^th century. It was first published as a special issue of Immigrants & Minorities.

Spis treści

Introduction: Memory and Family in Australian Refugee Histories  1. Failing ‘Abyan’, ‘Golestan’ and ‘the Estonian Mother’: Refugee Women, Reproductive Coercion and the Australian State  2. Remembering Mum and Dad: Family History Making by Children of Eastern European Refugees  3. Cossack Identities: From Russian Émigrés and Anti-Soviet Collaborators to Displaced Persons  4. Unravelling Memories of Family Separation Among Sri Lankan Tamils Resettled in Australia, 1983–2000  5. ‘All Those Stories, All Those Stories’: How Do Bosnian Former Child Refugees Maintain Connections to Bosnia and Community Groups in Australia?  6. Weaving a Family and a Nation Through Two Latvian Looms

O autorze

Alexandra Dellios is a historian at the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at the Australian National University.