Abstract This article explores the memory-making of descendants of post-war displaced persons from Eastern Europe now living in Australia. Their processes to uncover their parents’ wartime, refugee and settlement pasts are mediated through public and personal forums. Accordingly, this analysis is framed by a theory of post-memory, which considers the narrative effects of living in close proximity to (the sometimes concealed) stories of their parents’ displacement and family separation. This cohort search for a wider frame to articulate their parents’ pasts as Eastern European (mainly Polish and Latvian) refugees, which is lacking in public discussions around immigration to Australia. They complicate and in some cases undermine celebratory narratives of migration to Australia and of family settlement. On an intimate level, their parents’ experiences are deployed as a means to grapple with their alternative family structures and less-than-conventional childhoods within immigration centres or camps, which were influenced by discriminatory policy for non-British migrants, and single mothers in particular. When adopting a collective lens, these histories are projected onto wider historical understandings of the immigration scheme, which these descendants of displaced persons seek to complicate.

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缅怀爸爸妈妈：东欧难民儿童的家庭历史制作

摘要 本文探讨了现居澳大利亚的东欧战后流离失所者后裔的记忆制作。他们揭露父母战时、难民和定居历史的过程是通过公共和个人论坛进行调解的。因此，这种分析以后记忆理论为框架，该理论考虑了与父母流离失所和家庭分离的（有时是隐藏的）故事密切相关的叙事效果。这群人寻求更广泛的框架来表达他们父母作为东欧（主要是波兰和拉脱维亚）难民的过去，这在关于移民澳大利亚的公开讨论中是缺乏的。它们使移民澳大利亚和家庭定居的庆祝叙述复杂化，在某些情况下破坏了庆祝叙述。在亲密的层面上，他们父母的经历被用作应对他们在移民中心或难民营中的替代家庭结构和非传统童年的一种手段，这些童年受到了对非英国移民，尤其是单身母亲的歧视性政策的影响。当采用集体视角时，这些历史被投射到对移民计划的更广泛的历史理解上，这些流离失所者的后代试图将其复杂化。