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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

Conference report: Public History and Historians at the IFPH 2017

As someone who’s come to public history via memory studies and then oral history, perhaps it’s inevitable that I should … More

academics, conference, historians, IFPH, memory studies, practice, public history, theory

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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