Abstract: Ongoing war prompted large-scale outward mass migration from Greece to Australia during the 1950s–1970s. By 1983, almost a quarter of a million Greeks had come to Australia as permanent and long-term arrivals. The largest group was from the Macedonian region of Greece, including Florina. This chapter examines how migrants who left Florina in the 1950s and 1960s and their children and grandchildren narrate cross-generational experiences of migration. It considers how collective family memory can shape transnational notions of belonging and how...
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Topics: 
Genealogy
Gender studies