Forgotten Women: Remembering “Unsupported” Migrant Mothers in Post-World War II Australia

Karen Agutter; Catherine Kevin

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-17751-5_8

Forgotten Women: Remembering “Unsupported” Migrant Mothers in Post-World War II Australia

Karen Agutter
, Catherine Kevin

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Abstract

Oral history is a crucial tool for social historians; however, its application may be limited for discovering those who have lived with multiple and intersecting disadvantages. This chapter examines the methods used to explore the migration experiences of female displaced persons to Australia (1947–1953) with a particular focus on unmarried and widowed mothers. We argue that while Sophia Turkiewicz’s auto/biographical film Once My Mother brings the memories of the migration experiences of these so-called unsupported mothers to a wider public audience, it also suggests a larger, neglected story and raises questions for scholars of migration which can only be pursued through the use of multiple and varied sources in order to piece together a fuller, more intersectional, history and collective remembering.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Remembering Migration
Subtitle of host publication	Oral Histories and Heritage in Australia
Editors	Kate Darian-Smith, Paul Hamilton
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	8
Pages	107-122
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-17751-5
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-17750-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17751-5_8
Publication status	Published - 2019

Publication series

Name	Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
ISSN (Print)	2634-6257
ISSN (Electronic)	2634-6265

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SDG 5 Gender Equality

Keywords

Displaced persons
Female displaced persons
Australia
Migrant mothers
Unsupported mothers
Child placement
Once My Mother
Intersectionality

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Forgotten Women: Remembering “Unsupported” Migrant Mothers in Post-World War II Australia. / Agutter, Karen; Kevin, Catherine.
Remembering Migration: Oral Histories and Heritage in Australia. ed. / Kate Darian-Smith; Paul Hamilton. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. p. 107-122 (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies).

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Forgotten Women: Remembering “Unsupported” Migrant Mothers in Post-World War II Australia

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