This special issue engages with histories of refugees and ‘family’ and their intersections with aspects of memory studies – including oral history, public storytelling, family history and museum exhibitions and objects. The impetus for this special issue arose out of a collection of papers presented at Professor Joy Damousi’s ARC Laureate Fellowship conference, ‘Global Histories of Refugees in the 20th and 21st Centuries’ at the University of Melbourne in October 2016. The authors presented papers that engaged in some part, conceptually or empirically, with memory and public storytelling relating to refugee families seeking asylum. We know that border crossings and the search for refuge are experiences shared by children, siblings, parents, partners and families. Emerging histories work to move us away from a focus on individual adults or nationally defined cohorts towards multilayered and rich histories of groups and individuals with a variety of intersectional affiliations, socially and historically constructed, including that of family. In the social sciences and the humanities, studies of refugees in Australia have often addressed individuals and groups (ethnic or politically defined cohorts) and shared personal stories, but rarely within a family context.1 Perhaps because they were the first refugee cohort to highlight the need for a specific policy for refugee processing and reception in Australia, South Vietnamese refugees arriving after 1975 have been the subject of much academic study. Some in the social sciences have explored intergenerational tensions that arise from refugee sponsorship and reunification after long periods of separation and violence.2 Culturally situated understandings of family and family dynamics are a strength in this context; but the ongoing evolution of memories of migration, influenced by new social and political contexts and changing dominant discourses around multiculturalism and refugeeness, also necessitates that historians return to earlier studies. As historians, we should be compelled to consider the conflicting layers of meaning built up around (racialised and de-racialised) refugee groups throughout the twentieth century,

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澳大利亚难民历史中的记忆和家庭

本期特刊涉及难民和“家庭”的历史，以及他们与记忆研究方面的交叉点——包括口述历史、公共故事讲述、家族历史和博物馆展览和物品。2016 年 10 月在墨尔本大学举行的 Joy Damousi 教授的 ARC Laureate Fellowship 会议“20 世纪和 21 世纪难民的全球历史”上发表了一系列论文。在某些方面，在概念上或经验上，与寻求庇护的难民家庭有关的记忆和公共故事讲述。我们知道过境和寻找避难所是儿童、兄弟姐妹、父母、伴侣和家人的共同经历。新兴历史使我们从关注个体成年人或国家定义的群体转向具有各种交叉关系的群体和个人的多层次和丰富的历史，社会和历史构建，包括家庭。在社会科学和人文学科中，对澳大利亚难民的研究经常针对个人和群体（种族或政治定义的群体）并分享个人故事，但很少涉及家庭背景。 1 也许是因为他们是第一个强调1975 年以后抵达的南越难民在澳大利亚需要具体的难民处理和接收政策，这一直是许多学术研究的主题。社会科学领域的一些人探讨了在长期分离和暴力之后难民赞助和重新团聚所产生的代际紧张关系。2 在这种情况下，对家庭和家庭动态的文化背景理解是一种优势；但是，受新的社会和政治背景以及围绕多元文化主义和难民的主导话语不断变化的影响，移民记忆的持续演变也要求历史学家回归早期研究。作为历史学家，我们应该被迫考虑整个 20 世纪围绕（种族化和去种族化）难民群体建立的相互冲突的意义层，但是，受新的社会和政治背景以及围绕多元文化主义和难民的主导话语不断变化的影响，移民记忆的持续演变也要求历史学家回归早期研究。作为历史学家，我们应该被迫考虑整个 20 世纪围绕（种族化和去种族化）难民群体建立的相互冲突的意义层，但是，受新的社会和政治背景以及围绕多元文化主义和难民问题的主导话语不断变化的影响，移民记忆的持续演变也要求历史学家回归早期研究。作为历史学家，我们应该被迫考虑整个 20 世纪围绕（种族化和去种族化）难民群体建立的相互冲突的意义层，