June to August was spent researching in Sydney—in the State Library of NSW, and in the homes and clubhouses of…
INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE
“Greek-Australian Women and Building Alternative Multiculturalisms: Grassroots Histories of Migrant Welfare in NSW, 1960s-1980s” This research aims to build a…
Making Migrant Heritage – What is it?
But what is ‘Making Migrant Heritage’? The rationale for the project grew out of a concern that too little scholarly attention had been paid to how ‘subaltern’ publics, including the ‘migrants’ who are the subject of many exhibitions and commemorations, actively create and publicise their own ‘heritage’.
Indigenous Consultation in the formation of Gippsland Immigration Park’s Heritage Walk
On one page of Heritage Making and Migrant Subjects in the Deindustrialising Region of the Latrobe Valley, when discussing multiculturalism…
Published: “Heritage Making and Migrant Subjects in the Deindustrialising Region of the Latrobe Valley”
In March 2007, in the small deindustrialising town of Morwell in Australia’s south-east, a local group with a post-WWII migrant…
Heritage Making and Migrant Subjects in the Deindustrialising Region of the Latrobe Valley
This blog went on the backburner in 2020, like most things. But some of the research (or, at least, the…
IWD talk: The limits of the archive – revisiting histories of multiculturalism and women’s voices
In an effort to trick myself into being (feeling?) ‘productive’, and thus keep that all-pervading panic and fear at bay,…
Remembering Migrant Rights Activism
But I wanted to access community memories. How do implicated community groups remember this period of ‘migrant rights activism’ and the prominent activists associated with the movement?
Indigenous and Migrant Heritage Places: ‘Immigration Park Australia’ design
In a 2002 article for the Journal of Intercultural Studies, Joseph Pugliese argued that migrant communities, working within heritage legislation,…
Challenging State Multiculturalism: industrial heritage, migrant labour and Gippsland Immigration Park
This ‘phantasmatic diversity’, this multiculturalism ‘for all of us’, dissuades recognition of diversity as structural difference with historical antecedents… While the political struggles over migrant rights aren’t at the centre of Gippsland Immigration Park, the local history of the coal industry and its implications for working life and mobility, are. Here, the Park challenges celebratory state multiculturalism and histories of industrial progress.
Migrant Histories and Heritage Making 