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Alexandra Dellios

@alecadell.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in heritage studies; researcher of diaspora history, memory studies, oral history with migrant background communities, multiculturalism/s, public history, social history, labour history @ the ANU orcid.org/0000-0001-9832-2419

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Australian Migration History Network @amigrationhn.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
New article by @alecadell.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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The ‘Ethnic’ Welfare Worker: Personal Perspectives on Changes to Welfare Approaches in Multicultural Australia (1970s–1980s)
Australia’s welfare systems underwent dramatic changes from the 1970s. This included a move from assimilationist approaches to more pluralist ones, in delayed recognition of Australia’s multiethnic...
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Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Come do a PhD with us! study.anu.edu.au/scholarships...
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Australians and the Past Revisited PhD scholarship | The Australian National University
Australians and the Past Revisited PhD scholarship, The scholarship will support a HDR candidate to be part of the interdisciplinary research team undertaking the ARC funded ‘Australians and the Past ...
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
www.environmentalhistory-au-nz.org/2026/02/job-... @esehnextgate.bsky.social
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Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Fellow working on “Humane Exclusion: How States Justify Excluding Refugees”
The Australian National University’s College of Asia & the Pacific is seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Fellow in International Relations (Level A) to work on the ARC project “Humane Excl…
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Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Congrats @alimozaffari.bsky.social
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 20/11/2025
What does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes? Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
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Writing history in a time of genocide
Anne Irfan asks, what does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
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Antoinette Lattouf @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Wow. David Marr's interview with Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Chris Hedges is extraordinary. And not in a good way. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Journalist Chris Hedges on being cancelled by the National Press Club - ABC listen
Australia’s National Press Club was due to host Pulitzer prize winning journalist, the former Middle East Bureau Chief for the New York Times, Chris Hedges on Monday October 20, 2025. But after receiv...
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Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Full article: 1975: Working Migrant Women www-tandfonline-com.virtual.anu.edu.au/doi/full/10....
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
The stage of deterioration where gangs of large (mostly) white men just publicly assault people who seem to be brown because they're brown in the hopes of doing far more harm to them in the name of the state. Glad this one escaped.
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Emily Gallagher @as-ruby.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
So delighted to see 'Playtime' reviewed by Marian Quartly alongside 'Fathering' and its stellar collective of authors!
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Just a reminder that no politician or bureaucrat has ever faced any charges for Robodebt
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Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Continued musings from my ongoing work on the community origins of multiculturalism and 1975 - bittersweet, to have something published in @meanjin.bsky.social - meanjin.com.au/essays/the-g...
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The Greek Left, Whitlam and the Dismissal: a radical legacy
Whitlam meant a great deal to working-class migrant communities.
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Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · 21/11/2024
Hi folks, this is me. I come from a disadvantaged background including youth homelessness, teen parenthood, high school dropout, poverty & more. Education was my passport to life. Demography helped me realise I was never the problem; society is unequal & needs fixing. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Deviating demographics with Liz Allen - ABC listen
Dr Liz Allen is a demographer fascinated by Australia's demographic trends. But her own story is a remarkable case study in deviating from the norm
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Anisa Puri @anisapuri.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
If you have a relevant oral history collection in Victoria, we'd love to hear from you! #oralhistory #history #GLAM
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Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Sampler chp from our book "Immigrant Industry: Building Postwar Australia" included in Berghahn's new Refugee and Migration Studies: Key Readings, in honour of World Refugee Day. Open access: www.berghahnbooks.com/samplers/ref...
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refugee and migration Studies | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
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Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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Testimony in ‘But I wouldn’t want my wife to work here: a study of migrant women in Melbourne industry’, 1975
Over the last few months, I’ve spent a lot of time with one document—the well-cited (but rarely in detail) ‘But I wouldn’t want my wife to work here: a study of migrant women in Melbourne industry’…
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Australian Migration History Network @amigrationhn.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
📢 New open access book chapter by @alecadell.bsky.social, "Migrant Rights Activism and the Community Origins of Australian Multiculturalism, 1970s" books.google.com/books/about/...
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The Elgar Companion to the Arts and Global Multiculturalism
This Companion examines the evolution of multiculturalism as a political philosophy, public policy and cultural practice. Demonstrating the key role of artists, activists and migrants in the inception...
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Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I know her
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Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
There is love out there
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Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Historic ‘Welfare Cheats’ – the Greek Social Security Scandal explained The episode is variously called ‘the Greek Social Security Scandal’, the ‘Greek Compensation Case’ or the ‘Greek… migrantheritage.blog/2024/11/13/his…
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