Industry and sunshine: Australia as home in the displaced person's camps of post-war Europe
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Industry and sunshine: Australia as home in the displaced person's camps of post-war Europe
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call numberP325.21/013
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]11323
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Clayton, Victoria, Australia
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Monash University Publishing
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2016
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]25p
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Loose-leaf
NotesArticle from the journal 'History Australia' Vol.11 No.1 April 2014
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
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