Migration

Tracing the Borders

On the wall of my family lounge room in regional NSW was a framed tourist map of Lebanon. The poster was unfolded in 1988 after it was picked up from […]

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Book cover: Into the Suburbs by Christopher Raja

(First posted at Books+Publishing.) Christopher Raja’s Into the Suburbs is the author’s first foray into memoir, and documents his migration from Calcutta to Australia in the 80s. Drawn by the glamorous Australia of […]

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Trapped Home by Damon Amb (2021). Curated and produced by Settlement Services International. Presented in partnership with the Australian National Maritime Museum.

Art Review: Motherland – Exile/Refuge – Migration (repeat)

By Maryanne Taouk

When my mother stepped off the plane at Sydney’s international airport at seventeen, pregnant and sweating from the humid September heat, she cried. Like her first steps in Australia, the […]

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Ahmed Yussuf on Defining Reality

By Vir Kaula

Storycasters Podcast Producer Vir Kaula speaks to writer and the editor of Growing up African in Australia Ahmed Yussuf at the 2019 Boundless Writers Festival in Bankstown. StoryCasters Project · STORYCASTERS – […]

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