This book revisits Australian histories of refugee arrivals and settlement, with a focus on family. It brings together new research in memory and oral history to offer multilayered histories of refugees in the 20th century. It was first published as a special issue of Immigrants & Minorities.

Alexandra Dellios is a historian at the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at the Australian National University.

Introduction: Memory and Family in Australian Refugee Histories 1. Failing 'Abyan', 'Golestan' and 'the Estonian Mother': Refugee Women, Reproductive Coercion and the Australian State 2. Remembering Mum and Dad: Family History Making by Children of Eastern European Refugees 3. Cossack Identities: From Russian Émigrés and Anti-Soviet Collaborators to Displaced Persons 4. Unravelling Memories of Family Separation Among Sri Lankan Tamils Resettled in Australia, 1983-2000 5. 'All Those Stories, All Those Stories': How Do Bosnian Former Child Refugees Maintain Connections to Bosnia and Community Groups in Australia? 6. Weaving a Family and a Nation Through Two Latvian Looms