Industry and sunshine: Australia as home in the displaced person's camps of post-war Europe
TitreIndustry and sunshine: Australia as home in the displaced person's camps of post-war Europe
Auteur
Call numberP325.21/013
N° d'objet11323
Lieu de publicationClayton, Victoria, Australia
EditeurMonash University Publishing
Année de publication
2016
Pagination25p
MatérielOuvrage à feuillets mobiles
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