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

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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

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

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

family, intimacy, memory, migrant, photo

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

gippsland, labour, migrant, migration, monument, morwell, multiculturalism, symposium, trascultural

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’.

australian immigration history, heritage, method, migrant, public history, theory

Greek experiences of migrant reception centres – community networks

On Thursday night I had the honour of presenting a paper in front of an engaged crowd at the Greek … More

bonegilla, government, greek, migrant, migrant centre

What is this?

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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