How do people who have been stateless remember their experiences, their migration journeys, and their lives in a new country?
In this talk, Dr Jordana Silverstein draws on the words offered in oral history interviews she’s conducted in recent years by people who have been stateless and who migrated to Australia. Listening carefully to them, she thinks through the ways in which people remember their experiences of statelessness, their migration journeys, and their life in Australia. Drawing on the conception of “stateless memory” offered by Marianne Hirsch, she brings to the surface the complicated narratives that people who have been stateless articulate, working to understand the bonds between people and place that people who have been stateless may create in and through their memories of their statelessness.
Dr Jordana Silverstein (University of Melbourne) is a cultural historian, and author of the award-winning Cruel Care: A History of Children At Our Borders (2023).
For more information please email Benjamin Thomas White: benjaminthomas.white@glasgow.ac.uk
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