Andrew Harris

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  1. Photographs, favours and mango leaves.

    Each time I set out to collect an oral history I prepare for an adventure, not only because of the narrative that awaits my attention but also the excitement of travelling to the interview location and observing the setting.  Why is the interview setting or sense of place important in collecting oral history? I often […]

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  2. I didn’t see the footprints: memorials for children in Bosnia and Hercegovina

    “The footprints! They’re all over the fountain. They make my heart break.” “I didn’t see them”. I was in Sarajevo, Bosnia, to attend a summer school called “Learning from the past: transitional justice”. The footprints were part of a memorial to children killed during the siege of Sarajevo in 1992-1995. I was at the summer […]

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  3. ‘Never had a chance’ – child refugees and health in postwar Australia

    Standards of care that exist for child refugees within a receiving country are integral to their successful settlement. And yet, specific questions regarding health and wellbeing have rarely been considered in histories of migration to Australia, despite the obvious trauma and subsequent physical ailments that can afflict those fleeing from their homes. How has Australia historically […]

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  4. ‘special attention’ on refugee children

    In 1994 the UNHCR released a document entitled Refugee Children: Guidelines on Protection and Care. This document – which updated a 1988 document, and incorporated ideas from a UNHCR policy document produced in 1993 – remains the standard set of guidelines for protection regimes and measures for refugee children from the UNHCR. All of the […]

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  5. ‘Welcome to Australia’ reading images of refugees

    Benjamin Thomas White’s lucid examinations of historical and contemporary images of refugees clearly demonstrates the complexities of reading images and the importance of historical analysis. (You can read them here: part one, two, three, and refugee camps.) Given how readily images, particularly photographs, populate our physical and digital worlds, it is through a detailed historical analysis of […]

    blogs-test.unimelb.edu.au/childrefugees-test/2016/06/03/welcome-to-australia-reading-images-of-refugees

  6. Tamils remember May 2009

    As 18 May* is approaching I decided to write this short blog about the oral history narratives of young individuals who were involved in political campaigns which aimed to spread awareness about the plight of Tamils during the final stages of Sri Lanka’s decades long civil war.  In addition, I felt that it was important […]

    blogs-test.unimelb.edu.au/childrefugees-test/2016/05/15/tamils-remember-may-2009

  7. The Girl in the Picture

    “Looking for this girl from the film footage , Please pass on , I would like to give her this collection of Pics & film footage. It’s part her history as well as mine.”[1] Thuy recently sent her these posting from his Facebook page and she had not been able to respond. It just happened […]

    blogs-test.unimelb.edu.au/childrefugees-test/2016/03/29/the-girl-in-the-picture

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