context: family and society. migration and family how does migration impact on family? how does...

CONTEXT: Family and Society

MIGRATIONand

FAMILY

How does migration impact on family? How does family respond to migration? For migrants, who becomes family?

MIGRATIONand

SOCIETY The society one leaves. The society one comes to. Clashes and Contrasts Responding to clashes and contrasts Integrating Belonging

What can SHAPE the Migrant Experience?

Why one leavesFleeing a war torn countrySeeking a better futurePersecuted in one’s country

What can SHAPE the Migrant Experience?

Why Australia?OpportunityInvitedDemocraticFamilyLandscape

What can SHAPE the Migrant Experience?

What one brings: skills, beliefs, values, experience

Romulus Truthfulness Decency Integrity Character Detests dishonesty, pretension and arrogance

What can SHAPE the Migrant Experience?

Life stage when one migrates Romulus came as a family with a wife and

small child. Raymond was a young child, 4yrs Hora and Mitru came as singles.

How are their experiences different?

What can SHAPE the Migrant Experience?

How migrants are receivedGovernment policyInvited migrantsRefugeesSkilled workers

What can SHAPE the Migrant Experience?

Contrasts in landscapes

What can SHAPE the Migrant Experience?

Contrasts in landscapes

What can SHAPE the Migrant Experience?

The landscape Romulus came to

Romulus has to get used to the Australian landscape

“…. Responding with the instinct of an immigrant unused to the tinder-dry conditions of an Australian summer, he set fire …in order to kill the snake.’ p 28

What can SHAPE the Migrant Experience?

Work

Romulus the Blacksmith

“I have never seen a workman as skilled as my father.”“He was deeply gratified that his work, and he through it, should become respected.” p 99“His work both expressed and formed much of his character.” p98“Like him, his work was honest through and through.” p98

Romulus’ Social Networks

Family and Friends“My son is everything to me.” p 64“Despite their quarrels, Hora and my father remained friends …” p 146

European Hospitality“..he longed all his life for the European conviviality he knew as a young man ….” p 171

Helps those in need“… he sent thousands of dollars to relatives I Yugoslavia.” p 165

Returning to one’s homeland

“To escape his ‘prison’ he talked of returning to Yugoslavia when the communist regime collapsed.”

“His experience of Yugoslavia gave him a renewed appreciation of Australia …”

Migrant Stories