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After the end of the Second World War, migrants were critical to the spatial making of modern Australia. Major federally funded industries driving postwar nation-building programs depended on the employment of large numbers of people who had been displaced by the war. Directed to remote, rural and urban industrial sites, migrant labor and resettlement altered the nation’s physical landscape, providing Australia with its contemporary economic base. While the immigrant contribution to nation-building in cultural terms is well-known, its everyday spatial, architectural and landscape transformations remain unexamined. This book aims to bring to the foreground postwar industry and immigration to comprehensively document a uniquely Australian shaping of the built environment.
“This is an excellent book that makes a crucial scholarly contribution in an understudied subject area. It makes a strong and nuanced argument for reinserting a focus on the built environment to critical heritage studies.” • Andrew Johnston, University of Virginia
“This is an excellent collection that opens many avenues for further research. The chapters draw on a range of disciplinary writings as well as more theoretical conceptual critics… (and) the authors are truly knowledgeable concerning the work on migration studies.” • Sneja Gunew, University of British Columbia
Anoma Pieris is Professor in Architecture at The University of Melbourne. Her recent publication is The Architecture of Confinement: Incarceration camps of the Pacific War (Cambridge University Press 2022), co-authored with Lynne Horiuchi.
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Anoma Pieris and Mirjana Lozanovska
Chapter 1. Post War Immigrant Recruitment Policies, Labour and Accommodation
Alexandra Dellios, Mirjana Lozanovska and David Beynon
Chapter 2. Machines for Making Australians – The Military Prehistory of Migrant Camps
Anoma Pieris
Chapter 3. Unfinished Histories of Nation-Building – Racialization, Space of Labour and Industry
at Port Kembla Steelworks
Mirjana Lozanovska
Chapter 4. Company Town: Housing Labour Migrants on the Snowy Hydro Scheme
Anoma Pieris
Chapter 5. Woomera: A Landscape of Displacement and Renewal
Andrew Saniga
Chapter 6. Non-Compliance and Agency in Migrant Family Life: Greta and Benalla Migrant Camps
Alexandra Dellios
Chapter 7. Design Experiments in Collective Housing: The Renewal of Commonwealth Migrant Hostels
Renee Miller-Yeaman
Chapter 8. From Enterprise to Enterprise: Refugees, Industry and Settlement in an Australian City
David Beynon
Conclusion: Migration Heritage Landscapes in Australia Today
Alexandra Dellios, Anoma Pieris, Mirjana Lozanovska, Andrew Saniga, David Beynon
Index