Personal, Public Pasts: Negotiating Migrant Heritage—Heritage Practice and Migration History in Australia

Alexandra Dellios*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Individuals and community groups must engage with instruments of cultural power to make their sites of migrant heritage public. In doing so, they negotiate both public histories around mass migration, state settlement and societal reception, as well as personal meanings around family history, adjustment and hardship. This chapter analyses how personal and community meanings around migrant heritage are produced in relation to heritage bodies, state representatives and “authorized heritage discourses.” It engages with ongoing debates about the relationship between personal and public memories. Benalla Migrant Camp in Benalla, Victoria.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPalgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Pages219-236
Number of pages18
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Aug 2019

Publication series

NamePalgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
ISSN (Print)2634-6257
ISSN (Electronic)2634-6265

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