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Alexandra Dellios

@alecadell.bsky.social

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Senior Lecturer in heritage studies; researcher of diaspora history, memory studies, oral history with migrant background communities, multiculturalism/s, public history, social history, labour history @ the ANU https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9832-2419

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Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social · 4h

Full article: 1975: Working Migrant Women www-tandfonline-com.virtual.anu.edu.au/doi/full/10....

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 9d

The stage of deterioration where gangs of large (mostly) white men just publicly assault people who seem to be brown because they're brown in the hopes of doing far more harm to them in the name of the state. Glad this one escaped.

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 9d

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

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Emily Gallagher @as-ruby.bsky.social · 14d

So delighted to see 'Playtime' reviewed by Marian Quartly alongside 'Fathering' and its stellar collective of authors!

frankbongiorno.bsky.social @frankbongiorno.bsky.social · 14d

'Gallagher writes with an elegant assurance.' inside.org.au/authors-of-t...

Authors of their own lives? • Marian Quartly

How children and fathers experienced twentieth-century Australia

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 14d

Just a reminder that no politician or bureaucrat has ever faced any charges for Robodebt

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Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social · 14d

Continued musings from my ongoing work on the community origins of multiculturalism and 1975 - bittersweet, to have something published in @meanjin.bsky.social - meanjin.com.au/essays/the-g...

The Greek Left, Whitlam and the Dismissal: a radical legacy

Whitlam meant a great deal to working-class migrant communities.

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Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · Nov 21

Hi folks, this is me. I come from a disadvantaged background including youth homelessness, teen parenthood, high school dropout, poverty & more. Education was my passport to life. Demography helped me realise I was never the problem; society is unequal & needs fixing. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Deviating demographics with Liz Allen - ABC listen

Dr Liz Allen is a demographer fascinated by Australia's demographic trends. But her own story is a remarkable case study in deviating from the norm

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Anisa Puri @anisapuri.bsky.social · Jul 10

If you have a relevant oral history collection in Victoria, we'd love to hear from you! #oralhistory #history #GLAM

Anisa Puri @anisapuri.bsky.social · Jun 3

I'm excited to share details about The Identifying Precarious Victorian Oral History Collections Project! This project is identifying & creating a list of precarious oral history collections held in Victoria, Australia. Tell us about your collection via www.precariousoralhistories.com #oralhistory

Image of a flyer introducing the Identifying Precarious Victorian Oral History Collections Project

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Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social · Jun 17

Sampler chp from our book "Immigrant Industry: Building Postwar Australia" included in Berghahn's new Refugee and Migration Studies: Key Readings, in honour of World Refugee Day. Open access: www.berghahnbooks.com/samplers/ref...

refugee and migration Studies | Berghahn Books

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Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social · Jun 11

Testimony in ‘But I wouldn’t want my wife to work here: a study of migrant women in Melbourne industry’, 1975

Over the last few months, I’ve spent a lot of time with one document—the well-cited (but rarely in detail) ‘But I wouldn’t want my wife to work here: a study of migrant women in Melbourne industry’…

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Australian Migration History Network @amigrationhn.bsky.social · Apr 20

📢 New open access book chapter by @alecadell.bsky.social, "Migrant Rights Activism and the Community Origins of Australian Multiculturalism, 1970s"
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The Elgar Companion to the Arts and Global Multiculturalism

This Companion examines the evolution of multiculturalism as a political philosophy, public policy and cultural practice. Demonstrating the key role of artists, activists and migrants in the inception...

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Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social · Nov 18

I know her

Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social · Nov 18

Interested in difficult heritage and/or the history of anti-Chinese violence in the settler colonial world? This is a must read from Karen Schamberger from the Young Historical Museum in Australia
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Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social · Nov 18

There is love out there

Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social · Nov 13

Historic ‘Welfare Cheats’ – the Greek Social Security Scandal explained

The episode is variously called ‘the Greek Social Security Scandal’, the ‘Greek Compensation Case’ or the ‘Greek…

http://migrantheritage.blog/2024/11/13/historic-welfare-cheats-the-greek-social-security-scandal-explained/

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