Remembering Migration

Kate Darian-Smith is Executive Dean of the College of Arts, Law and Education at the University of Tasmania, Australia. She has researched and published widely on Australian cultural history; memory studies and oral history; histories of war, media and migration; and heritage.Paula Hamilton is Visiting Professor of History at the Australian Centre for Public History, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She researches and publishes on oral history and memory studies, and also works as a public historian.

• 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 Mine’s 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 1920s–1970s.-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 Negotiating Trauma and Cultural Dislocation through Memory: South Sudanese in Western Sydney.-Chapter 12 “I Leave Everything”: Encountering Grief with an Hazara Refugee.-Chapter 13 The Voices of Diversity in Multicultural Societies: Using Multimedia to Communicate Authenticity and Insight.-Chapter 14 Oral History and First-Person Narratives in Migration Exhibitions: Tracking Relations Between “Us” and “Them”.-Chapter 15 Personal, Public Pasts: Negotiating Migrant Heritage.-Chapter 16 Hard Landings: Memory, Place and Migration.-Chapter 17 Purposeful Memory-Making: Personal Narratives of Migration at Melbourne’s Immigration Museum.-Chapter 18 Settled and Unsettled: The Spirit of Enterprise Project as (Post)Settler-Colonial Memory Activism.-Chapter 19 In Search of “Australia and the Australian People”: The National Library of Australia and the Representation of Cultural and Linguistic Diversity.-Chapter 20 Remembering the Child Migrant on Screen.-Chapter 21 Politicizing the Past: Memory in Australian Refugee Documentaries.-Chapter 22 Memory and Meaning in the Search for Chinese Australian Families.

“Remembering Migration is an exciting and broad-ranging collection, primarily based in the fields of history, museum studies, and heritage studies, but with important research and insightful reflections for scholars of life writing. … The book provides exciting examples of how scholars might engage with communities and work towards expanding the life stories featured in the public realm, and it showcases innovative ways for stories to be shared and understood.” (Mary Tomsic, Biography, Vol. 44 (4), 2021)