Split Lives: Croatian Australian Stories

Description

Migrating to another country is comparable to surviving a war or becoming a parent: it splits life into two parts – before and after – and changes it forever.

With captivating frankness and humour, the storytellers share their intimate knowledge of Croatia and their early views of Australia.

The stories collected in this book are told by Croatians who migrated to Australia between 1949 and 1996. Coming from big cities and small villages, and different walks of life, these men and women arrived in their adopted country with varying hopes and motivations. Some came as refugees from war or the political dangers and uncertainties of their homeland; some came to find a more stable and prosperous country. Each encountered a world vastly different from the one they had left.

Editor Biography

Val Colic-Peisker is an associate professor in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. She is the coauthor of The Age of Post-Rationality: Limits of Economic Reasoning in the Twenty-First Century and the author of Split Lives: Croatian Australian Stories.