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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 20 th 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 th century, and their relationship to structural inequalities, their shifting socio-economic positions, and the changing racial and religious categories of inclusion and exclusion employed by dominant institutions. As the contributors to this book suggest, ‘family’ functions as a means to revisit or research histories of mobility and refuge. This focus on ‘family’ illuminates intima

Who reads Memory and Family in Australian Refugee Histories?

Author

Alexandra Dellios

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780367727338

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, History, Sociology