Architectures of un/belonging: transitory migrant histories and ambivalences of power in the Greta and Benalla migrant camps

Victoria Stead

Landscape Research, 2025, vol. 50, issue 7, 1158-1172

Abstract: How are historical instances of transitory places of accommodation and work represented? How should specific migrant histories be located within the shifting terrains of settler-colonial states? In reviewing an exhibit about life in migrant camps in post-war Australia, this paper considers three tensions: first, between the exhibit’s intended focus on the built environment, and the lack of material traces of the camps themselves; second, the ambivalent experiences of the camps’ predominantly female inhabitants, for whom the built environments yielded both constraints and transformative possibilities; and third, the tension between a more limited temporal framing, within which the subjugated class and ethnic positioning of camp inhabitants is foregrounded, and a more expansive framing within which the role of post-war migration in consolidating white possession comes into focus. Grappling with these tensions disrupts the bounding of places, historical periods, and exhibitions themselves, instead inviting inter-disciplinary and multiperspectival forms of representation.

Date: 2025
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