Migrants, Television and Australian Stories

Kate Darian-Smith is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne and President of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. A historian and interdisciplinary scholar, Kate has published widely on the histories of social and cultural change in Australia, including in the areas of migration, media, children, memory studies, oral history and cultural heritage.Sue Turnbull is a Senior Professor of Communication and Media at the University of Wollongong. She has published extensively on media audiences and television and her most recent book with Marion McCutcheon is Transnational TV Crime: From the Nordic to the Outback (Edinburgh University Press, 2024).Sukhmani Khorana is a Scientia Associate Professor in the School of Arts and Media at UNSW. She is the external co-lead of the Migration, Im/mobility and Belonging research theme at Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney. Sukhmani has published extensively on media diversity, mediated emotions and refugee narratives.Kyle Harvey is a historian based in Melbourne. His research explores culture, media and social change in Australia and the United States, and he has published widely on television history, migration, social movements and radical thought. Kyle is the author of American Anti-Nuclear Activism, 1975-1990 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

• 1. Migration, television and Australian stories 2. Watching Australian television: ‘It’s just a bunch of white people’ 3. Representing diversity on Australian television 4. Migrants at work in Australian television 5. Writing migrant stories 6. Diverse identities on screen: Performers, actors and presenters 7. Migrants producing for diversity: From entrepreneurs to web producers 8. New ways of watching: Technology, screens and global media. Epilogue ‘But wait, there’s more!’: Looking ahead

“An invaluable and insightful examination of how far we’ve come in showcasing our stories and communities, and a reminder of how far we’ve yet to go.”-Benjamin Law, writer and broadcaster“A pioneering study of the parallel stories of media and migration in modern Australia. Drawing on rich oral histories and archives across the country, this book tells a new history of television viewing, production, employment and representation. It is essential reading for all interested in Australian media and creative industries, and migration and diasporic studies.”-Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley FAHA, Macquarie University “There have been studies of the representation of migrants in Australian television before, but this important book takes us well beyond them. In its examination of how migrants participate in the consumption, production, circulation and cultural influence of Australian stories on television, the authors have provided us with much needed new perspectives from which to investigate the intersection of migration, television, identity and belonging within the cultures of everyday life.”Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner AO FAHA FQA, University of Queensland