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Abstract
The arrival of thousands of international students from Asia and the Pacific after the Second World War has reshaped the social and political texture of Australian life by helping undermine long-held suspicions of inferiority, racial pollution and political disruption. This article examines the transnational experience of sponsored and private overseas scholars in relation to the growing body of transnational theory and suggests why scholarly discourse and Australian museums have largely omitted non-permanent migrants, such as student sojourners. It also suggests how museums might avoid the pitfalls of the multicultural or pluralist imperatives that guide migrant heritage collection and exhibition practices.
Notes
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2. Australian News and Information Bureau, ‘Report from Australia’, 1960. A1838, item 2010/5/29/23, National Archives of Australia (NAA).
3. Retrieved 30 September 2009 from: http://aei.gov.au/AEI/PublicationsAndResearch/Snapshots/44SS09_pdf.pdf
4. Sun News-Pictorial (Melbourne), 26 May 1958.
5. Commonwealth Parliamentary Debates(CPD): House of Representatives (HoR), 8 March 1966, p. 34.
6. Daily News (Perth), 9 August 1965.
7. Australian, 14 September 1965.
8. Daily News, 16 September 1965.
9. D.O. Hay to Casey, ‘Colombo Plan: Expression of political views by students’, 21 September 1965, A1838, 2045/9 part 2, NAA; CPD (HoR), 16 September 1965, p. 1039.
10. Retrieved 30 September 2009 from: http://www.internationalhouse.uq.edu.au/Default.aspx?tabid=64
11. Memorandum, 6 February 1967, A1838, item 2010/5/29/23, NAA.
12. Letter, E. Soeparman to M.G. Francis, 16 March 1967, A1838, item 2010/5/29/23, NAA.
13. See Entol Soeparman's file: A1838, item 2010/5/29/23, NAA.