Remembering Migration: Oral Histories and Heritage in Australia [Paperback]

This book provides the first comprehensive study of diverse migrant memories and what they mean for Australia in the twenty-first century.  Drawing on rich case studies, it captures the changing political and cultural dimensions of migration memories as they are negotiated and commemorated by individuals, communities and the nation.

Remembering Migration is divided into two sections, the first on oral histories and the second examining the complexity of migrant heritage, and the sources and genres of memory writing. The focused and thematic analysis in the book explores how these histories are re-remembered in private and public spaces, including museum exhibitions, heritage sites and the media. Written by leading and emerging scholars, the collected essays explore how memories of global migration across generations contribute to the ever-changing social and cultural fabric of Australia and its place in the world. 

Chapter 1 Remembering Migration.-Chapter 2 I Am No Longer the same Person: Intimate History and the Gendered Experience of Migration.-Chapter 3 Oral Histories of Displaced Persons: What For? The Story like Mines Plenty Now.-Chapter 4 Shifting Countries, Shifting Identities? Oral History and Lesbian and Gay Migration to Australia.-Chapter 5 To Be Who I Was, Really, Was to be Different: Memories of Youth Migration to Post-war Australia.-Chapter 6 Memory, Migration and Television: National Stories of the Small Screen.-Chapter 7 A Shared Social Identity: Oral Histories of an Urban Community of Italian Market Gardeners in Adelaide 1920s1970s.-Chapter 8 Forgotten Women: Remembering Unsupported Migrant Mothers in Post-World War II Australia.-Chapter 9 Years of Separation: Vietnamese Refugees and the Experience of Forced Migration after 1975.-Chapter 10 The Pear Tree: Family Narratives of Post-War Greek Macedonian Migration.-Chapter 11 Negotiatl#w