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CONTEXT: Family and Society

CONTEXT: Family and Society. MIGRATION and. FAMILY How does migration impact on family? How does family respond to migration? For migrants, who becomes family?. MIGRATION and. SOCIETY The society one leaves. The society one comes to. Clashes and Contrasts

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CONTEXT: Family and Society

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  1. CONTEXT: Family and Society

  2. MIGRATIONand FAMILY • How does migration impact on family? • How does family respond to migration? • For migrants, who becomes family?

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

  4. What can SHAPE the Migrant Experience? Why one leaves Fleeing a war torn country Seeking a better future Persecuted in one’s country

  5. What can SHAPE the Migrant Experience? Why Australia? Opportunity Invited Democratic Family Landscape

  6. What can SHAPE the Migrant Experience? What one brings: skills, beliefs, values, experience Romulus • Truthfulness • Decency • Integrity • Character • Detests dishonesty, pretension and arrogance

  7. 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?

  8. What can SHAPE the Migrant Experience? How migrants are received Government policy Invited migrants Refugees Skilled workers

  9. What can SHAPE the Migrant Experience? Contrasts in landscapes

  10. What can SHAPE the Migrant Experience? Contrasts in landscapes

  11. What can SHAPE the Migrant Experience?The landscape Romulus came to

  12. 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

  13. What can SHAPE the Migrant Experience? Work

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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 …”

  17. Migrant Stories

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