From Timor-Leste to Australia: Seven families, three generations tell their stories - Paperback
by Jan Trezise
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Wild Dingo PressISBN-13:9780987381101ISBN-10:987381105UPC:9780987381101Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Asia, Political, ModernBook Topic:Southeast Asia, 20th CenturySize:8.00 x 5.25 x 0.48 inchesWeight:0.5313Product ID:SCGATESZNJ
A collection of poignant stories and poems of seven East Timorese families living in Melbourne. Since 1975 to 1999, men, women and children, and even grandparents, have been forced to flee their beloved homeland, their culture, their language, their families--and the graves of those murdered in repeated massacres over those years.
Until now, their stories, written by people in their community,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wild Dingo PressISBN-13:9780987381101ISBN-10:987381105UPC:9780987381101Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Asia, Political, ModernBook Topic:Southeast Asia, 20th CenturySize:8.00 x 5.25 x 0.48 inchesWeight:0.5313Product ID:SCGATESZNJ
Trezise, Jan: - Jan Trezise grew up in Springvale South where successive groups of refugees and migrants settled in the surrounding areas. This early experience informed a lifelong activism in support of refugees. After graduating from university, Jan taught in both primary and secondary schools, becoming a principal at Eumemmerring Secondary College in Hallam, and in 1995, the inaugural...
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