Alexandra Dellios
Biographic Data
| ID | 693279 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexandra Dellios |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Dellios |
| SIGNATURE | DELLIOS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9832-2419 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The ‘Ethnic’ Welfare Worker: Personal Perspectives on Changes to Welfare Approaches in Multicultural Australia (1970s–1980s)
Australia’s welfare systems underwent dramatic changes from the 1970s. This included a move from assimilationist approaches to more pluralist ones, in delayed recognition of Australia’s multiethnic populace. This paper explores the perspectives of three migrant-background women, self-identified ethnic welfare workers, who worked within a developing multicultural welfare system in the Australian state of New South Wales from the 1970s and 1980s. T…
Working Migrant Women
The ethnic and class politics of working migrant women marked them at a distance from mainstream feminism and its mostly middle-class, libertarian, and Anglo-centric outlook during International Women's Year 1975. The rights of working migrant women - especially in industrial workplaces - were the subject of sustained and intersectional analysis in migrant rights forums. Their research papers, public seminars, and welfare practices provided a mor…
The 1973 Migrant Workers’ Conference and Histories of Multiculturalism
Nowhere is the alliance between leftist organisations, trade unions, migrant workers’ clubs and ethnic welfare societies better represented than in the migrant workers’ conferences held in 1973 and 1975. This article argues for the historic importance of these overlooked moments in the history of twentieth-century labour migration. It explores the inter-ethnic and social justice aims of grassroots multiculturalism in Australia – a model that has …
Migration Parks and Monuments to Multiculturalism
In this article, I “read against the grain” of a monument to post-WWII immigration and migrant communities. I am concerned with how such monuments, locally situated, might be used in more progressive and transformative histories, ones that harbor the potential to challenge existing public and collective memories of postwar migration and multiculturalism that occur on a national stage and within the ambit of Australia’s heritage industry. This is …
Italians in Australia: History, Memory, Identity
The continued vilification of asylum seekers, \nrefugees and other minority groups in Australia, \nfrom mainstream media and from within Parliament, makes Francesco Ricatti’s Italians in \nAustralia a prescient work. Debates spurred by \nMinister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton’s erroneous comments about ‘African gangs’ in Melbourne indicate that we need to continue to \nchallenge ideas about ‘successful integration’ \nand acceptable migrants, and …
Dunera Lives: A Visual History
It was just you and your child’: Single migrant mothers, generational storytelling and Australia’s migrant heritage
On the 10 and 11 February 2016, former residents of one of Australia’s post-war ‘holding’ centres for migrant arrivals presented evidence at a hearing for the site’s inclusion on the Victorian Heritage Register. They were aware that the Victorian Heritage Register held few places of significance to post-war migrant communities, let alone working migrant women, which Benalla largely accommodated. They chose to retell their mothers’ stories and exp…
Conflict and Communication
Book Review| November 01 2018 Conflict and Communication: Expanding the field with two new books in heritage studies Heritage at the Interface: Interpretation and Identity edited by Glenn Hooper. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018. xi + 229 pp.; illustrations, notes, bibliography; clothbound, $89.95.Cuban Cultural Heritage: A Rebel Past for a Revolutionary Nation by Pablo Alonso González. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018…
Memory and Family in Australian Refugee Histories
This book revisits Australian histories of refugee arrivals and settlement – with a particular focus on family and family life. It brings together new empirical research, and methodologies in memory and oral history, to offer multilayered histories of people seeking refuge in the 20th century. \n \nEngaging with histories of refugees and ‘family’, and how these histories intersect with aspects of memory studies — including oral history, public st…
Remembering Mum and Dad: Family History Making by Children of Eastern European Refugees
This article explores the memory-making of descendants of post-war displaced persons from Eastern Europe now living in Australia. Their processes to uncover their parents’ wartime, refugee and settlement pasts are mediated through public and personal forums. Accordingly, this analysis is framed by a theory of post-memory, which considers the narrative effects of living in close proximity to (the sometimes concealed) stories of their parents’ disp…
Histories of Controversy: Bonegilla Migrant Centre
Picturing and Re-picturing Bonegilla
Peer-reviewed
Displaced Persons, Family Separation and the Work Contract in Postwar Australia
This article focuses on the migrant family in postwar Australia. The Commonwealth government’s two-year work contract scheme had significant effects on the initial settlement experience of displaced persons (DPs)—particularly, through the family separation that the contract enforced. Family reunification was afforded in accordance with an occasionally callous and pragmatic concern for maintaining a directable pool of labour. In this regard, the s…
Commemorating migrant camps: Vernacular memories in official spaces
Bonegilla, Australia's largest post-war migrant processing and reception centre, re-emerged in the public sphere from the late 1980s. A reunion festival was staged on the grounds of the former centre in 1987. Widely attended by former residents, it was considered a success by its organisers, a grass-roots committee of former residents. Another reunion was held ten years later, this time by a committee led by local council members. Both these reun…
Marginal or mainstream? Migrant centres as grassroots and official heritage
Migrant heritage, as a grassroots practice seeking to commemorate pre- and post-war migrant communities and their contributions, emerged in Australia from the 1980s. Since that time, its appeal has continued to grow. It now receives, in some form, state sanction and is policed by the same state and national legislation as other cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible. This article seeks to complicate understandings of migrant heritage as …
Exchanging Memories in the Australian Museum: Migrant Stories and Bonegilla Migrant Centre
In Australia, museum exhibitions play an important social function in both framing and reflecting collective memories of immigration. Since the 1980s, Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre has emerged as a key part of the national immigration story. But its representation in the museum space necessitates the negotiation of some difficult terrain: capturing the migrant experience of some 320,000 displaced persons and assisted migrants ov…
Sharing Bonegilla Stories
Notes1. See, for a few select examples, Edwards, History of Bonegilla, Zangalis.2. Giovanni Antonio Sgro was an Australian politician and Victoria's first Italian MP, who retired from service in 1992
Exhibition Reviews
Bonegilla Heritage Park: Contesting and Co-ordinating a Public History Site
Since the 1980s, efforts to publically commemorate the former migrant training and reception centre of Bonegilla, while intermittent, have increased. I am referring to: reunions and anniversaries, state and national heritage listings, the erection of museum displays, temporary and touring exhibitions, the on-site Heritage Park, and forms of popular culture. For the national audience, as well as several ethnic communities, Bonegilla now plays a ro…
Conflict and Communication
Book Review| November 01 2018 Conflict and Communication: Expanding the field with two new books in heritage studies Heritage at the Interface: Interpretation and Identity edited by Glenn Hooper. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018. xi + 229 pp.; illustrations, notes, bibliography; clothbound, $89.95.Cuban Cultural Heritage: A Rebel Past for a Revolutionary Nation by Pablo Alonso González. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018…
Displaced Persons, Family Separation and the Work Contract in Postwar Australia
This article focuses on the migrant family in postwar Australia. The Commonwealth government’s two-year work contract scheme had significant effects on the initial settlement experience of displaced persons (DPs)—particularly, through the family separation that the contract enforced. Family reunification was afforded in accordance with an occasionally callous and pragmatic concern for maintaining a directable pool of labour. In this regard, the s…
It was just you and your child’: Single migrant mothers, generational storytelling and Australia’s migrant heritage
On the 10 and 11 February 2016, former residents of one of Australia’s post-war ‘holding’ centres for migrant arrivals presented evidence at a hearing for the site’s inclusion on the Victorian Heritage Register. They were aware that the Victorian Heritage Register held few places of significance to post-war migrant communities, let alone working migrant women, which Benalla largely accommodated. They chose to retell their mothers’ stories and exp…
Marginal or mainstream? Migrant centres as grassroots and official heritage
Migrant heritage, as a grassroots practice seeking to commemorate pre- and post-war migrant communities and their contributions, emerged in Australia from the 1980s. Since that time, its appeal has continued to grow. It now receives, in some form, state sanction and is policed by the same state and national legislation as other cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible. This article seeks to complicate understandings of migrant heritage as …
Migration Parks and Monuments to Multiculturalism
In this article, I “read against the grain” of a monument to post-WWII immigration and migrant communities. I am concerned with how such monuments, locally situated, might be used in more progressive and transformative histories, ones that harbor the potential to challenge existing public and collective memories of postwar migration and multiculturalism that occur on a national stage and within the ambit of Australia’s heritage industry. This is …
Memory and Family in Australian Refugee Histories
This book revisits Australian histories of refugee arrivals and settlement – with a particular focus on family and family life. It brings together new empirical research, and methodologies in memory and oral history, to offer multilayered histories of people seeking refuge in the 20th century. \n \nEngaging with histories of refugees and ‘family’, and how these histories intersect with aspects of memory studies — including oral history, public st…
Remembering Mum and Dad: Family History Making by Children of Eastern European Refugees
This article explores the memory-making of descendants of post-war displaced persons from Eastern Europe now living in Australia. Their processes to uncover their parents’ wartime, refugee and settlement pasts are mediated through public and personal forums. Accordingly, this analysis is framed by a theory of post-memory, which considers the narrative effects of living in close proximity to (the sometimes concealed) stories of their parents’ disp…
Picturing and Re-picturing Bonegilla
Peer-reviewed
Commemorating migrant camps: Vernacular memories in official spaces
Bonegilla, Australia's largest post-war migrant processing and reception centre, re-emerged in the public sphere from the late 1980s. A reunion festival was staged on the grounds of the former centre in 1987. Widely attended by former residents, it was considered a success by its organisers, a grass-roots committee of former residents. Another reunion was held ten years later, this time by a committee led by local council members. Both these reun…
Exchanging Memories in the Australian Museum: Migrant Stories and Bonegilla Migrant Centre
In Australia, museum exhibitions play an important social function in both framing and reflecting collective memories of immigration. Since the 1980s, Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre has emerged as a key part of the national immigration story. But its representation in the museum space necessitates the negotiation of some difficult terrain: capturing the migrant experience of some 320,000 displaced persons and assisted migrants ov…
Sharing Bonegilla Stories
Notes1. See, for a few select examples, Edwards, History of Bonegilla, Zangalis.2. Giovanni Antonio Sgro was an Australian politician and Victoria's first Italian MP, who retired from service in 1992
Exhibition Reviews
Bonegilla Heritage Park: Contesting and Co-ordinating a Public History Site
Since the 1980s, efforts to publically commemorate the former migrant training and reception centre of Bonegilla, while intermittent, have increased. I am referring to: reunions and anniversaries, state and national heritage listings, the erection of museum displays, temporary and touring exhibitions, the on-site Heritage Park, and forms of popular culture. For the national audience, as well as several ethnic communities, Bonegilla now plays a ro…
Exchanging Memories in the Australian Museum: Migrant Stories and Bonegilla Migrant Centre
In Australia, museum exhibitions play an important social function in both framing and reflecting collective memories of immigration. Since the 1980s, Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre has emerged as a key part of the national immigration story. But its representation in the museum space necessitates the negotiation of some difficult terrain: capturing the migrant experience of some 320,000 displaced persons and assisted migrants ov…
Sharing Bonegilla Stories
Notes1. See, for a few select examples, Edwards, History of Bonegilla, Zangalis.2. Giovanni Antonio Sgro was an Australian politician and Victoria's first Italian MP, who retired from service in 1992
Commemorating migrant camps: Vernacular memories in official spaces
Bonegilla, Australia's largest post-war migrant processing and reception centre, re-emerged in the public sphere from the late 1980s. A reunion festival was staged on the grounds of the former centre in 1987. Widely attended by former residents, it was considered a success by its organisers, a grass-roots committee of former residents. Another reunion was held ten years later, this time by a committee led by local council members. Both these reun…
Marginal or mainstream? Migrant centres as grassroots and official heritage
Migrant heritage, as a grassroots practice seeking to commemorate pre- and post-war migrant communities and their contributions, emerged in Australia from the 1980s. Since that time, its appeal has continued to grow. It now receives, in some form, state sanction and is policed by the same state and national legislation as other cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible. This article seeks to complicate understandings of migrant heritage as …
Displaced Persons, Family Separation and the Work Contract in Postwar Australia
This article focuses on the migrant family in postwar Australia. The Commonwealth government’s two-year work contract scheme had significant effects on the initial settlement experience of displaced persons (DPs)—particularly, through the family separation that the contract enforced. Family reunification was afforded in accordance with an occasionally callous and pragmatic concern for maintaining a directable pool of labour. In this regard, the s…
Histories of Controversy: Bonegilla Migrant Centre
Picturing and Re-picturing Bonegilla
Peer-reviewed
It was just you and your child’: Single migrant mothers, generational storytelling and Australia’s migrant heritage
On the 10 and 11 February 2016, former residents of one of Australia’s post-war ‘holding’ centres for migrant arrivals presented evidence at a hearing for the site’s inclusion on the Victorian Heritage Register. They were aware that the Victorian Heritage Register held few places of significance to post-war migrant communities, let alone working migrant women, which Benalla largely accommodated. They chose to retell their mothers’ stories and exp…
Conflict and Communication
Book Review| November 01 2018 Conflict and Communication: Expanding the field with two new books in heritage studies Heritage at the Interface: Interpretation and Identity edited by Glenn Hooper. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018. xi + 229 pp.; illustrations, notes, bibliography; clothbound, $89.95.Cuban Cultural Heritage: A Rebel Past for a Revolutionary Nation by Pablo Alonso González. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018…
Memory and Family in Australian Refugee Histories
This book revisits Australian histories of refugee arrivals and settlement – with a particular focus on family and family life. It brings together new empirical research, and methodologies in memory and oral history, to offer multilayered histories of people seeking refuge in the 20th century. \n \nEngaging with histories of refugees and ‘family’, and how these histories intersect with aspects of memory studies — including oral history, public st…
Remembering Mum and Dad: Family History Making by Children of Eastern European Refugees
This article explores the memory-making of descendants of post-war displaced persons from Eastern Europe now living in Australia. Their processes to uncover their parents’ wartime, refugee and settlement pasts are mediated through public and personal forums. Accordingly, this analysis is framed by a theory of post-memory, which considers the narrative effects of living in close proximity to (the sometimes concealed) stories of their parents’ disp…
Italians in Australia: History, Memory, Identity
The continued vilification of asylum seekers, \nrefugees and other minority groups in Australia, \nfrom mainstream media and from within Parliament, makes Francesco Ricatti’s Italians in \nAustralia a prescient work. Debates spurred by \nMinister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton’s erroneous comments about ‘African gangs’ in Melbourne indicate that we need to continue to \nchallenge ideas about ‘successful integration’ \nand acceptable migrants, and …
Dunera Lives: A Visual History
Migration Parks and Monuments to Multiculturalism
In this article, I “read against the grain” of a monument to post-WWII immigration and migrant communities. I am concerned with how such monuments, locally situated, might be used in more progressive and transformative histories, ones that harbor the potential to challenge existing public and collective memories of postwar migration and multiculturalism that occur on a national stage and within the ambit of Australia’s heritage industry. This is …
The 1973 Migrant Workers’ Conference and Histories of Multiculturalism
Nowhere is the alliance between leftist organisations, trade unions, migrant workers’ clubs and ethnic welfare societies better represented than in the migrant workers’ conferences held in 1973 and 1975. This article argues for the historic importance of these overlooked moments in the history of twentieth-century labour migration. It explores the inter-ethnic and social justice aims of grassroots multiculturalism in Australia – a model that has …
Working Migrant Women
The ethnic and class politics of working migrant women marked them at a distance from mainstream feminism and its mostly middle-class, libertarian, and Anglo-centric outlook during International Women's Year 1975. The rights of working migrant women - especially in industrial workplaces - were the subject of sustained and intersectional analysis in migrant rights forums. Their research papers, public seminars, and welfare practices provided a mor…
The ‘Ethnic’ Welfare Worker: Personal Perspectives on Changes to Welfare Approaches in Multicultural Australia (1970s–1980s)
Australia’s welfare systems underwent dramatic changes from the 1970s. This included a move from assimilationist approaches to more pluralist ones, in delayed recognition of Australia’s multiethnic populace. This paper explores the perspectives of three migrant-background women, self-identified ethnic welfare workers, who worked within a developing multicultural welfare system in the Australian state of New South Wales from the 1970s and 1980s. T…
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