Being Stateless

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Being Stateless

Being Stateless is a podcast about people in Australia who have been stateless. About their memories, experiences, and histories. Across a series of oral history interviews, Jordana Silverstein – a historian and descendant of stateless refugees – has brought together people living in Australia who share stories, insights, knowledge and experiences of statelessness. In this podcast series, join Jordana and the interviewees to learn about how we can understand and describe statelessness, citizenship, and what it means to belong somewhere.

Episodes

  1. 14 HRS AGO

    Guta Goldstein

    This episode introduces us to Guta Goldstein. A Jewish Holocaust survivor in her 90s who was born in Poland, Guta came to Australia as a nineteen year old, one of the last surviving members of her family. She now lives in Melbourne.   After spending the post-war years in Italy, Guta and her remaining cousin migrated to Australia, where she met her husband, had children, and rebuilt her life. Finding work, coming to understand Australian culture, and the process of discovering herself as a writer later in life, provide the contours of Guta’s story. Ultimately, for Guta, being stateless is “a terrible thing”. And through her words we learn what that can mean.  ---   Being Stateless is a podcast about people in Australia who have been stateless. About their memories, experiences, and histories.   Across a series of oral history interviews, Jordana Silverstein – a historian and descendant of stateless refugees – has brought together people living in Australia who share stories, insights, knowledge and experiences of statelessness.   In this podcast series, join Jordana and the interviewees to learn about how we can understand and describe statelessness, citizenship, and what it means to belong somewhere.    ---   This episode was created, recorded and produced on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present. Sovereignty has never been ceded. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land. We are grateful to First Nations writers, activists, scholars and artists from across the continent, from whom we continue to learn so much.   This podcast comes from the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness and is funded in part by the Australian Research Council. Michael Green was the Story Editor and it was produced by Greta Robenstone.

    55 min

  2. 8 OCT

    Listening to Statelessness

    In this episode we hear from a diverse group of people who have had experiences of statelessness. We come to understand how they each define and describe what statelessness is, how it feels, and how it is remembered. We learn how people describe and analyse their relationships to countries and nation-states, and the processes they have gone through in order to migrate and acquire citizenship.   Poignant questions of belonging, in-betweenness, and home get raised to surface. And we learn how people think about their relationships to Australia. Through these critical anecdotes, stories, and reminiscences, we see how each of us is a product of the histories we carry.   ---   Being Stateless is a podcast about people in Australia who have been stateless. About their memories, experiences, and histories.   Across a series of oral history interviews, Jordana Silverstein – a historian and descendant of stateless refugees – has brought together people living in Australia who share stories, insights, knowledge and experiences of statelessness.   In this podcast series, join Jordana and the interviewees to learn about how we can understand and describe statelessness, citizenship, and what it means to belong somewhere.    ---   This podcast was created and produced on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present. Sovereignty has never been ceded. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land. We are grateful to First Nations writers, activists, scholars and artists from across the continent, from whom we continue to learn so much.   This podcast comes from the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness and is funded in part by the Australian Research Council. Michael Green was the Story Editor and it was produced by Greta Robenstone. This episode contains excerpts from the following interviews: Timea Partos interviewed by Jordana Silverstein for the Statelessness in Australia oral history project, 17 August 2023, TRC 7365/5. National Library of Australia. Dalya Sabawi interviewed by Jordana Silverstein for the Statelessness in Australia oral history project, 8 December 2022, TRC 7365/4. National Library of Australia. Irmgard Hanner interviewed by Jordana Silverstein for the Statelessness in Australia oral history project, 22 August 2022, TRC 7365/1. National Library of Australia. Joseph Szwarcberg interviewed by Jordana Silverstein for the Statelessness in Australia oral history project, 23 August 2022, TRC 7365/2. National Library of Australia. The document in our Podcast logo is from National Archives of Australia: B78, 1957/STAWSKI S

    55 min
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Being Stateless is a podcast about people in Australia who have been stateless. About their memories, experiences, and histories. Across a series of oral history interviews, Jordana Silverstein – a historian and descendant of stateless refugees – has brought together people living in Australia who share stories, insights, knowledge and experiences of statelessness. In this podcast series, join Jordana and the interviewees to learn about how we can understand and describe statelessness, citizenship, and what it means to belong somewhere.

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    Melbourne Law School
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