A sense of belonging can emerge from the connections made with people, places, groups, communities and the larger world. To find where one belongs isn’t always a pleasant journey. It depends on your personal experience, to whether you find it pleasant or not. Peter Skrzynecki shares his personal experience of migration and the years after through poems not all so pleasant, which I would like to show you parts of his journey today. I would also like to explore the picture book The Arrival by Shaun Tan also about migration experience.
Born in 1945, Peter Skrzynecki moved from Germany at the end of WW2, travelling by sea to Australia spending time in migrant hostels in Sydney. Skrzynecki presents feelings of belonging