Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations

Introduction
Anoma Pieris and Mirjana Lozanovska

Chapter 1. Post War Immigrant Recruitment Policies, Labour and Accommodation
Alexandra Dellios, Mirjana Lozanovska and David Beynon

Chapter 2. Machines for Making Australians – The Military Prehistory of Migrant Camps
Anoma Pieris

Chapter 3. Unfinished Histories of Nation-Building – Racialization, Space of Labour and Industry
at Port Kembla Steelworks
Mirjana Lozanovska

Chapter 4. Company Town: Housing Labour Migrants on the Snowy Hydro Scheme
Anoma Pieris

Chapter 5. Woomera: A Landscape of Displacement and Renewal
Andrew Saniga

Chapter 6. Non-Compliance and Agency in Migrant Family Life: Greta and Benalla Migrant Camps
Alexandra Dellios

Chapter 7. Design Experiments in Collective Housing: The Renewal of Commonwealth Migrant Hostels
Renee Miller-Yeaman

Chapter 8. From Enterprise to Enterprise: Refugees, Industry and Settlement in an Australian City
David Beynon

Conclusion: Migration Heritage Landscapes in Australia Today
Alexandra Dellios, Anoma Pieris, Mirjana Lozanovska, Andrew Saniga, David Beynon

Index

Immigrant Industry

Building Postwar Australia

Anoma Pieris, Mirjana Lozanovska, Alexandra Dellios, Andrew Saniga, and David Beynon

310 pages, 86 ills., bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-80539-456-3 Hb Published (August 2024)

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“This is an excellent book that makes a crucial scholarly contribution in an understudied subject area. It makes a strong and nuanced argument for reinserting a focus on the built environment to critical heritage studies.” • Andrew Johnston, University of Virginia

“This is an excellent collection that opens many avenues for further research. The chapters draw on a range of disciplinary writings as well as more theoretical conceptual critics… (and) the authors are truly knowledgeable concerning the work on migration studies.” • Snjea Gunew, University of British Columbia

After the end of the Second World War, migrants were critical to the spatial making of modern Australia. Major federally funded industries driving postwar nation-building programs depended on the employment of large numbers of people who had been displaced by the war. Directed to remote, rural and urban industrial sites, migrant labor and resettlement altered the nation’s physical landscape, providing Australia with its contemporary economic base. While the immigrant contribution to nation-building in cultural terms is well-known, its everyday spatial, architectural and landscape transformations remain unexamined. This book aims to bring to the foreground postwar industry and immigration to comprehensively document a uniquely Australian shaping of the built environment.

Anoma Pieris is Professor in Architecture at The University of Melbourne. Her recent publication is The Architecture of Confinement: Incarceration camps of the Pacific War (Cambridge University Press 2022), co-authored with Lynne Horiuchi.

Mirjana Lozanovska is Professor at Deakin University. She has published extensively as an architectural educator including Ethno-Architecture and the Politics of Migration (Routledge 2016) and Migrant Housing: Architecture, Dwelling, Migration (Routledge 2019).

Dr Alexandra Dellios is a historian and senior lecturer in the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at the Australian National University. Her latest book is Heritage Making and Migrant Subjects in the Deindustrialising Region of the Latrobe Valley (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Andrew Saniga is Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture, Planning and Urbanism at The University of Melbourne. His most recent publication is Campus: Building Modern Australian Universities (2023, University of Western Australia Press).

David Beynon is Associate Professor in Architecture at the University of Tasmania. His publications include Digital Archetypes: Adaptations of Early Temple Architecture in South and Southeast Asia (Ashgate 2014).

Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

Area: Asia-Pacific

LC: JV9125 .I54 2024

BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; SOC007000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Emigration & Immigration; SOC066000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Refugees

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Immigrant Industry

Building Postwar Australia

Anoma Pieris, Mirjana Lozanovska, Alexandra Dellios, Andrew Saniga, and David Beynon

Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

Area: Asia-Pacific

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Immigrant Industry

Building Postwar Australia

Anoma Pieris, Mirjana Lozanovska, Alexandra Dellios, Andrew Saniga, and David Beynon

Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

Area: Asia-Pacific