Alexandra Dellios

Jan 19, 2018

Histories of Controversy

Bonegilla Migrant Centre

Melbourne University Publishing 2017

purchase at bookshop.org In her new book, Histories of Controversy: Bonegilla Migrant Centre (Melbourne University Publishing, 2017), Alexandra Dellios, a Lecturer in Heritage Studies at the Australian National University, provides a critical reassessment of Bonegilla, which received and temporarily accommodated about 320,000 post-war refugees and migrants from 1947 to 1971. Using a series of four cases studies of controversy, she argues that rather than being a simple story of progress, the center's history is actually one of containment, control, deprivation and political discontent.

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