Political Memories and Migration [electronic resource] : Belonging, Society, and Australia Day / by J. Olaf Kleist.

Kleist, J. Olaf.
Political Memories and Migration
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781137575890 978-1-137-57589-0
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/2354
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2017.
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Fiziksel Niteleme
X, 222 p. 1 illus. online resource.
Dizi
Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies, 2634-6265
İçindekiler Notu
1. Memories and Migration: Politics of Belonging -- 2.Australia Day from Colony to Citizenship: 1788-1948 -- 3.Australia Day from Citizenship to Multiculturalism: 1948-1988 -- 4. Pasts and Politics: Beyond the Boundaries of Belonging.
Özet, vb.
This book explores the relationship between political memories of migration and the politics of migration, following over two hundred years of commemorating Australia Day. References to Europeans’ original migration to the continent have been engaged in social and political conflicts to define who should belong to Australian society, who should gain access, and based on what criteria. These political memories were instrumental in negotiating inherent conflicts in the formation of the Australian Commonwealth from settler colonies to an immigrant society. By the second half of the twentieth century, the Commonwealth employed Australia Day commemorations specifically to incorporate new arrivals, promoting at first citizenship and, later on, multiculturalism. The commemoration has been contested throughout its history based on two distinct forms of political memories providing conflicting modes of civic and communal belonging to Australian politics and policies of migration. Introducing the concept of Political Memories, this book offers a novel understanding of the social and political role of memories, not only in regard to migration. .
Konu
Collective memory.
Cultural property.
Emigration and immigration.
World politics.
Memory Studies.
Cultural Heritage.
Human Migration.
Political History.