Bonegilla: when the refugees were Italians

El centro de inmigrantes de Bonegilla donde Rafaela y su familia fueron alojados cuando recién llegaron a Australia.

El centro de inmigrantes de Bonegilla donde Rafaela y su familia fueron alojados cuando recién llegaron a Australia. Source: Reproduced with permission of Co.As.It. the Italian Historical Society

The story of Bonegilla's migrant center will be told through a show on July the 12th at the Coasit in Melbourne. The center of Bonegilla hosted more than 320,000 immigrants, largely coming from Italy, between 1947 and 1971 .The show Histories of controversy: Bonegilla Migrant Centre, will be presented by the author, Alezandra Dellios, alongside various actors including Carmelina di Guglielmo who told us about this work.



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