Oral histories of displaced persons: what for? The story like mine's plenty now

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Persian, Jayne. 2019. "Oral histories of displaced persons: what for? The story like mine's plenty now." Darian-Smith, Kate and Hamilton, Paula (ed.) Remembering migration: oral histories and heritage in Australia. Switzerland. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 29-46

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Chapter Title	Oral histories of displaced persons: what for? The story like mine's plenty now
Book Chapter Category	Edited book (chapter)
ERA Publisher ID	2865
Book Title	Remembering migration: oral histories and heritage in Australia
Author	Persian, Jayne
Editors	Darian-Smith, Kate and Hamilton, Paula
Page Range	29-46
Series	Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
Chapter Number	3
Number of Pages	18
Year	2019
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication	Switzerland
ISBN	9783030177508
	9783030177515
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17751-5_3
Web Address (URL)	https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-17751-5_3
Abstract	This chapter takes as its subject the memories of the 170,000 displaced persons (DPs)—predominantly Central and Eastern Europeans—who arrived in Australia as International Refugee Organization (IRO)-sponsored refugees between 1947 and 1952. In recent decades, the emergent fields of social and oral histories have brought these stories into the public domain. This chapter focuses on the utility of oral histories to the displaced persons themselves, how oral histories add to historical understandings of migration and the place of oral history in accessing emotion, particularly in the transmission of family memory.
Keywords	displaced persons, memory, oral history, migration, Australia, interviewing, World War II, post war
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020	430302. Australian history
Public Notes	Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions.
Byline Affiliations	School of Humanities and Communication
Institution of Origin	University of Southern Queensland
Funding source	Australian Research Council (ARC) Grant ID DP160101528

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