Tag: refugees
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Inside Sarajevo’s Tunnel of Hope
I’ve spent the past month in Bosnia, researching how the war of 1992-1995 is remembered in public places such as museums and memorials. While in many locations throughout the country it remains difficult to remember the war, including the experiences of children, in Sarajevo there are many museums addressing the recent past. One of the […]blogs-test.unimelb.edu.au/childrefugees-test/2017/07/29/inside-sarajevos-tunnel-of-hope
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Histories of Controversy: Food and Migrant Resistance
Below is a short extract from my upcoming book Histories of Controversy: Bonegilla Migrant Centre (available for pre-order now). Each chapter addresses a “controversial” episode or aspect of Bonegilla’s history, and in so doing provides an alternative history of the postwar immigration scheme in Australia. The following discussion will demonstrate that, as residents resisted and expressed their […] -
Australian picture books: Humanising and thoughtful depictions of displaced children
My Two Blankets by Irena Kobald & Freya Blackwood was selected for the ‘Read for Australia’ event on Friday 2 September 2016 where school students around the country read the same book as part of National Literacy and Numeracy Week. My Two Blankets tells the story of a young girl who is making a new […]blogs-test.unimelb.edu.au/childrefugees-test/2016/09/14/australianpicturebooks
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‘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 […]