AUSTRALIANA
“A life history of postwar British emigration to Australia”
The authors draw upon a rich life history archive of letters, diaries, personal photographs and oral history interviews with former migrants, including those who settled in Australia and those who returned to Britain. They offer original interpretations of key historical themes, including motivations for emigration; gender relations and the family dynamics of migration; the ‘very familiar and awfully strange’ confrontation with the new world; the anguish of homesickness and return; and the personal and national identities of both settlers and returnees, fifty years on.
PART I EMIGRATION Imagining Australia 22 Leaving Britain Between two worlds PART II BRITONS IN POSTWAR AUSTRALIA Strangers on the shore ‘Butlins without the laughs’: life on the hostel An Australian working life Suburban dreams and family realities: making a home in Australia Ten pound pioneers of the back-packing generation ‘My wayward heart’: the British exodus from Australia PART III MIGRATION, MEMORY AND IDENTITY Coming ‘home’ British Australians: migration, nationality and identity Appendix: statistical summary of project interviews Bibliography Index.
x, 388 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. #210623
British Australians. | Immigrants — Australia — Social conditions. | British — Australia — Social conditions. | Great Britain — Emigration and immigration — 20th century. | Anglo-Saxon Australians | First generation migrants | Great Britain | Return migration | History, 1946-1999 | Statistics