Ten pound Poms : Australia's invisible migrants / A. James Hammerton and Alistair Thomson
- Bib ID:
- 3463031
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- Author:
- Hammerton, A. James (Anthony James), 1937-
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- Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2005
- x, 388 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 071907133X
- 0719071321
- Summary:
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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. --book cover.
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- Machine derived contents note: List of figures List of Tables Acknowledgements List of abbreviations A note on punctuation of interviews Introduction 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.
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- "A life history of postwar British emigration to Australia"--Cover.
- Includes bibliogaphical references: (p. [363]-377) and index.
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- Thomson, Alistair, 1960-
- Also Titled:
- Australia's invisible migrants
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