This book explores the relationship between political memories of migration and the politics of migration, following over two hundred years of commemorating Australia Day. References to Europeans’ original migration to the continent have been engaged in social and political conflicts to define who should belong to Australian society, who should gain access, and based on what criteria. These political memories were instrumental in negotiating inherent conflicts in the formation of the Australian Commonwealth from settler colonies to an immigrant society. By the second half of the twentieth century, the Commonwealth employed Australia Day commemorations specifically to incorporate new arrivals, promoting at first citizenship and, later on, multiculturalism. The commemoration has been contested throughout its history based on two distinct forms of political memories providing conflicting modes of civic and communal belonging to Australian politics and policies of migration. Introducing the concept of Political Memories, this book offers a novel understanding of the social and political role of memories, not only in regard to migration.

This book explores the relationship between political memories of migration and the politics of migration, following over two hundred years of commemorating Australia Day. References to Europeans’ original migration to the continent have been engaged in social and political conflicts to define who should belong to Australian society, who should gain access, and based on what criteria. These political memories were instrumental in negotiating inherent conflicts in the formation of the Australian Commonwealth from settler colonies to an immigrant society. By the second half of the twentieth century, the Commonwealth employed Australia Day commemorations specifically to incorporate new arrivals, promoting at first citizenship and, later on, multiculturalism. The commemoration has been contested throughout its history based on two distinct forms of political memories providing conflicting modes of civic and communal belonging to Australian politics and policies of migration. Introducing the concept of Political Memories, this book offers a novel understanding of the social and political role of memories, not only in regard to migration. 

Acht europaische Migrations- und Fluchtforschende wagen sich in die Politik: Als Ausweg aus einer um sich selbst rotierenden, destruktiven Migrationsdebatte fragen sie nach der Zukunft des Wir in Europa. Basierend auf jahrzehntelanger empirischer und theoretischer Forschung stellen sie fest, dass zu den Themen Flucht, Grenzen und Asyl nicht allein Zuwanderung, sondern das politische System Europas, sein Selbstbild und seine Rolle auf der Weltbuhne ausgehandelt werden. Sie stellen die Frage, wie Flucht nach und Ankommen in Europa so gestaltet werden konnen, dass unser Zusammenleben fairer, sicherer und demokratischer wird - und zwar fur alle, die Europa ihre (alte oder neue) Heimat nennen. Nicht nur auf nationaler, auch auf europaischer Ebene ist das Zusammenleben in Gefahr, das Erosionsprozessen von innen und auen unterliegt.

This book explores the relationship between political memories of migration and the politics of migration, following over two hundred years of commemorating Australia Day. References to Europeans’ original migration to the continent have been engaged in social and political conflicts to define who should belong to Australian society, who should gain access, and based on what criteria. These political memories were instrumental in negotiating inherent conflicts in the formation of the Australian Commonwealth from settler colonies to an immigrant society. By the second half of the twentieth century, the Commonwealth employed Australia Day commemorations specifically to incorporate new arrivals, promoting at first citizenship and, later on, multiculturalism. The commemoration has been contested throughout its history based on two distinct forms of political memories providing conflicting modes of civic and communal belonging to Australian politics and policies of migration. Introducing the concept of Political Memories, this book offers a novel understanding of the social and political role of memories, not only in regard to migration.

This book explores the relationship between political memories of migration and the politics of migration, following over two hundred years of commemorating Australia Day. References to Europeans’ original migration to the continent have been engaged in social and political conflicts to define who should belong to Australian society, who should gain access, and based on what criteria. These political memories were instrumental in negotiating inherent conflicts in the formation of the Australian Commonwealth from settler colonies to an immigrant society. By the second half of the twentieth century, the Commonwealth employed Australia Day commemorations specifically to incorporate new arrivals, promoting at first citizenship and, later on, multiculturalism. The commemoration has been contested throughout its history based on two distinct forms of political memories providing conflicting modes of civic and communal belonging to Australian politics and policies of migration. Introducing the concept of Political Memories, this book offers a novel understanding of the social and political role of memories, not only in regard to migration. 

Acht europaische Migrations- und Fluchtforschende wagen sich in die Politik: Als Ausweg aus einer um sich selbst rotierenden, destruktiven Migrationsdebatte fragen sie nach der Zukunft des Wir in Europa. Basierend auf jahrzehntelanger empirischer und theoretischer Forschung stellen sie fest, dass zu den Themen Flucht, Grenzen und Asyl nicht allein Zuwanderung, sondern das politische System Europas, sein Selbstbild und seine Rolle auf der Weltbuhne ausgehandelt werden. Sie stellen die Frage, wie Flucht nach und Ankommen in Europa so gestaltet werden konnen, dass unser Zusammenleben fairer, sicherer und demokratischer wird - und zwar fur alle, die Europa ihre (alte oder neue) Heimat nennen. Nicht nur auf nationaler, auch auf europaischer Ebene ist das Zusammenleben in Gefahr, das Erosionsprozessen von innen und auen unterliegt.