RUTH BALINT’S research in the histories of displacement, migration and refugees centres collaborative partnerships that gives voice to stories of migration and displacement from families ²¹²Ô»åÌýcommunities. It demonstrates ethical, reciprocal, and co-produced research, by which participants are empowered by academic collaboration and histories are used to rethink present concerns and support positive social change. Smuggled: An Illegal History of Journeys to Australia (NewSouth Publishing, 2021, co-authored by Julie Kalman) is a direct intervention in current political discourse linking people smuggling and refugees, giving people with lived experience of flight to Australia a chance to tell their experiences to an Australian audience. Destination Elsewhere (Cornell, 2021), shows how refugees ²¹²Ô»åÌýstorytelling helped shape the creation of international refugee law and the instruments of refugee welfare ²¹²Ô»åÌýhumanitarianism that emerged after 1945. Current projects also include The Holocaust as an Australian Story 1933-1954, ²¹²Ô»åÌýRussian Immigrants and Anti-Communism in Cold War Australia, 1946-1966.
Funded by: Funded by Australian Research Council Discovery Grants.Â