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Reflections on researching the heritage making practices of Australia's migrant and ethnic minority communities

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Author: Alexandra Dellios

Alexandra Dellios is a historian and senior lecturer in the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at the Australian National University. Her research considers the public and oral history of migrant and refugee communities, their experiences of settlement, and working and family life. She has published on: child migration; popular representations of multiculturalism; immigration centres and hostels; the intersections of migrant, industrial and labour heritage; public history practices, and cultural heritage management in Australia. She is the author of Heritage Making and Migrant Subjects in the Deindustrialising Region of the Latrobe Valley (Cambridge University Press, April 2022) and Histories of Controversy: Bonegilla Migrant Centre (Melbourne University Publishing, 2017), editor of Memory and Family in Australian Refugee Histories (Routledge: 2019), and co-editor (with Eureka Henrich) of Migrant, Multicultural and Diasporic Heritage: Beyond and Between Borders (Routledge: 2020). She is Chair of the Editorial Board for Studies in Oral History, a founding member of the Australian Migration History Network, and Executive Committee member of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies. She remains engaged in oral history projects and teaching, community volunteering, and heritage interpretation efforts.

Testimony in ‘But I wouldn’t want my wife to work here: a study of migrant women in Melbourne industry’, 1975

Over the last few months, I’ve spent a lot of time with one document—the well-cited (but rarely in detail) ‘But … More

Australian history, history, immigration history, industrial workers, migrant, migrant rights, trade union history, women, working class history

Historic ‘Welfare Cheats’ – the case of the Greek Social Security Scandal

The episode is variously called ‘the Greek Social Security Scandal’, the ‘Greek Compensation Case’ or the ‘Greek Conspiracy Case’. It’s … More

australia, class, ethnicity, greek migration, history, immigration history, migrant, migration, multiculturalism, news, oral history, parenting, politics, social security, welfare history

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 … More

Research Reflections from the SLNSW fellowship

June to August was spent researching in Sydney—in the State Library of NSW, and in the homes and clubhouses of … More

archives, greek, history, library, migrant, migration, multiculturalism, oral history, welfare, women

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 … More

coal, heritage, industrial, migrant, migration, multiculturalism, public history, publication

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 … More

migration, oral history, public history

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 … More

heritage, latrobevalley, migrant, migration, multiculturalism, oral history

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, … More

archive, ethnic, migrantrights, multiculturalism, oral history, welfare, women's testimony, workers

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?

activism, migration, multiculturalism, oral history, rights, social justice

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This blog details the research developments and reflections relating to my project ‘Making Migrant Heritage’, which asks: How do communities across Australia engage with and interpret official heritage practices and language in order to make their migrant and settlement pasts public?

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