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This chapter articulates Italian migration to Australia in the 1950s and 1960s by focusing on some of the objects that have defined the migrant process of place-making. Crucial to this investigation is the online exhibition Belongings: Post-WW2 Migration Memories and Journeys curated by the New South Wales Heritage Centre under the auspices of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Sydney. The chapter offers insights into specific examples of expressive process and practices enacted by migrants as they confronted an unfamiliar place. It highlights a number of objects and the ways in which they proved essential to re-establishing a sense of place, providing meaning to disconnected and uprooted lives.
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Bartoloni, P. (2016). Migrant Objects. In: Objects in Italian Life and Culture. Italian and Italian American Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94875-8_4
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