CHILD REFUGEES AND AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONALISM: 1920 TO THE PRESENT

Grant number: FL140100049 | Funding period: 2014 - 2020

Completed

Abstract

This project aims to generate new and powerful understandings of the impact and experiences of child refugees in Australia throughout the twentieth century and early twenty-first century; to explore how this history is tied to the history of Australia's international role on refugee and migration issues; and to examine how our past can inform us about current and future approaches to humanitarian immigration. In doing so it aims to enable an integrated approach to understanding the impact of child refugees in Australia in cultural, social and economic terms and provide a historical and contemporary framework for current discussions on child refugees.

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Editorial: Refugees: Past and Present

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From humanitarian “Charity” to “Justice”: the Australian Foster Parents Plan and Fostering Refugees in Asia during the 1970s

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Out of ‘Common Humanity’: Humanitarianism, Compassion and Efforts in Australia to Assist Jewish Refugees in the 1930s

J Damousi

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World Refugee Year 1959–60: Humanitarian Rights in Postwar Australia

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2019-01-01

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The politics of picture books: Stories of displaced children in twenty-first-century Australia

M Tomsic

2018-04-03

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Jewish Children in Australian History

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"Happiness again': photographing and narrating the arrival of Hungarian child refugees and their families 1956-1957

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2017-01-01

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‘The beneficent and legal godfather’: a history of the guardianship of unaccompanied immigrant and refugee children in Australia, 1946–1975

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2017-01-01

In Australia in 1946, the Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act was passed. This Act was intended to support the postwar migr..

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‘I Am Responsible’: Histories of the Intersection of the Guardianship of Unaccompanied Child Refugees and the Australian Border

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In Australia in 1946, the Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act was passed. This Act was intended to support the postwar migr..

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