Industry and sunshine: Australia as home in the displaced person's camps of post-war Europe
TitleIndustry and sunshine: Australia as home in the displaced person's camps of post-war Europe
Author
Call numberP325.21/013
Object number11323
Place of publicationClayton, Victoria, Australia
PublisherMonash University Publishing
Year of publication
2016
Physical description25p
MaterialLoose-leaf
NotesArticle from the journal 'History Australia' Vol.11 No.1 April 2014
Description
Explores the massive Australian publicity drive in the DP camps of Occupied Europe, the evidence of which challenges the immigration narrative of Australian exclusivity and desirability. Further, argues that the products used to sell Australia overseas as a new homeland articulated a specific postwar vision of the nation and at the same time, a specific narrative of postwar Communist Europe and its victims