Ikarians in South Australia, 1900-1945

‘Ikarians in South Australia makes an outstanding contribution to the scholarship of emigration to Australia. By focusing on the first half of the twentieth century, this work opens up an unexplored and unexamined period in emigration history in innovative ways. It captures through a sophisticated analysis the centrality of emigration by Greek Aegean Islander communities and sheds new perspectives on the complexity of the Greek diaspora in Australia.’ —Professor Joy Damousi, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, the University of Melbourne, Australia

‘Yianni Cartledge has done an exceptionally well-researched study of the Ikarians in South Australia, which will become the standard work on the subject. It traces the history of this group from its origins in the Aegean to the migration process through to integration into wider Australian society, providing a fascinating case study of the migrant story.’ —Professor Panikos Panayi, Professor of European History, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

‘Through painstaking research, Cartledge unearths the story of South Australia’s Ikarians during the early twentieth century. He shows with impressive detail how these islanders, with energy and determination, rebuilt their lives and participated in the making of the state’s Greek community. An important contribution to Greek Australian history!’ —Nicholas Doumanis, Professor and Illinois Chair in Hellenic Studies, the University of Illinois Chicago, USA

‘Ikarians in South Australia is a fascinating exploration of how diaspora identity is formed, examining how Ikarians identified as both a specific community attached to the island of Ikaria and part of the broader Greek community in Australia. Cartledge expertly shows how Ikarians built their communities and thrived amid the assimilationist environment of white Australia in the first half of the twentieth century.’ —Dr Evan Smith, Visiting Fellow, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University, Australia

Dr. Yianni Cartledge is a lecturer in Greek Studies (culture) at the College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, Flinders University. His research interests include migration and the migrant experience, diaspora studies, Mediterranean histories (particularly the British and Ottoman Empires), and the history of modern Greece.

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