Overview

After the end of the Second World War, migrants were critical to the spatial making of modern Australia. Major federally funded industries driving postwar nation-building programs depended on the employment of large numbers of people who had been displaced by the war. Directed to remote, rural and urban industrial sites, migrant labor and resettlement altered the nation’s physical landscape, providing Australia with its contemporary economic base. While the immigrant contribution to nation-building in cultural terms is well-known, its everyday spatial, architectural and landscape transformations remain unexamined. This book aims to bring to the foreground postwar industry and immigration to comprehensively document a uniquely Australian shaping of the built environment.

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Author:   Anoma Pieris ,  Mirjana Lozanovska ,  Alexandra Dellios ,  Andrew Saniga
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781805394563

ISBN 10:   1805394568
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   02 August 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction Anoma Pieris and Mirjana Lozanovska Chapter 1. Post War Immigrant Recruitment Policies, Labour and Accommodation Alexandra Dellios, Mirjana Lozanovska and David Beynon Chapter 2. Machines for Making Australians – The Military Prehistory of Migrant Camps Anoma Pieris Chapter 3. Unfinished Histories of Nation-Building – Racialization, Space of Labour and Industry at Port Kembla Steelworks Mirjana Lozanovska Chapter 4. Company Town: Housing Labour Migrants on the Snowy Hydro Scheme Anoma Pieris Chapter 5. Woomera: A Landscape of Displacement and Renewal Andrew Saniga Chapter 6. Non-Compliance and Agency in Migrant Family Life: Greta and Benalla Migrant Camps Alexandra Dellios Chapter 7. Design Experiments in Collective Housing: The Renewal of Commonwealth Migrant Hostels Renee Miller-Yeaman Chapter 8. From Enterprise to Enterprise: Refugees, Industry and Settlement in an Australian City David Beynon Conclusion: Migration Heritage Landscapes in Australia Today Alexandra Dellios, Anoma Pieris, Mirjana Lozanovska, Andrew Saniga, David Beynon Index

Reviews

“This is an excellent book that makes a crucial scholarly contribution in an understudied subject area. It makes a strong and nuanced argument for reinserting a focus on the built environment to critical heritage studies.” • Andrew Johnston, University of Virginia “This is an excellent collection that opens many avenues for further research. The chapters draw on a range of disciplinary writings as well as more theoretical conceptual critics… (and) the authors are truly knowledgeable concerning the work on migration studies.” • Snjea Gunew, University of British Columbia

Author Information

Anoma Pieris is Professor in Architecture at The University of Melbourne. Her recent publication is The Architecture of Confinement: Incarceration camps of the Pacific War (Cambridge University Press 2022), co-authored with Lynne Horiuchi.

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