Facing the past
Subtitle: looking back at refugee childhood in New Zealand, 1940s-1960s
By: Ann Beaglehole.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Wellington, N.Z; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Refugee children -- New Zealand -- History -- 20th century.; Jewish children -- New Zealand -- History -- 20th century.; New Zealand -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Description: Focuses on the lives of the children of wartime immigrants, whose perceptions and experiences of both the old and the new world were very different from their parents'. At school, in the neighbourhood, or on the sportsfield, many of them were painfully aware of being 'outsiders' in a society unused to cultural diversity. Yet their need to belong was frequently complicated by loyalty to the very different ideals and expectations of their parents. Based on a wide range of interviews as well as documentary evidence from second-generation refugees worldwide, this is an account of the lives of immigrant children growing up in the decades between the 1940s and the 1960s.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-209).