Author: Alexandra Dellios

Alexandra Dellios is a cultural, oral and public historian 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 in Australia. She has published on child migration, popular representations of multiculturalism, immigration centres and hostels, and public history practices and cultural heritage management in Australia. Her book Histories of Controversy: Bonegilla Migrant Centre was released with Melbourne University Publishing in 2017. She is national delegate for Oral History NSW, a founding member of the Australian Migration History Network, and ACT Representative for the Australian Women’s History Network. She was awarded her PhD in History at the University of Melbourne in March 2015. She remains engaged in oral history projects and teaching, community volunteering and heritage interpretation efforts.

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

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

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, … More

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.

Migration history, memory and oral history – the AMHN

My interest in migration and settlement has been framed by a regard for living memories and collective memory practices, as…

That photo: the migrants?

I use this photo a lot, the one that features in the ‘banner’ for this blog and on my Twitter … More

Living Transcultural Spaces and Gippsland Immigration Park research

I’m in the middle of my first full teaching semester at ANU. And while I’m loving teaching the course ‘Introduction … More

Europeana Migration Collection and Australian infrastructure

Large, well-funded digital archives provide the means to facilitate not only the collection and preservation of migrant-related collections, but also their promotion and uptake by researchers and other members of the public. This requires a coordinated effort on the part of large institutions, like the National Library of Australia—and I would argue, given the topic is migration, it calls for transnational collaboration. Enter: Europeana Migration Collection, a new initiative as part of the Europeana digital archive.