ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the possibility that some collective characteristics of the groups migrating to Australia (e.g. migratory patterns, common experiences, etc.) had a significant effect on the nature of their settlement in the host society. All second generation participants in this study are descendants of migrants who arrived in Australia in the post-Second World War period. Many of these second generation respondents have links to the group of early post-Second World War Displaced Persons (DPs). The question of a territorial definition of homeland proved to be of considerable importance in this research, particularly in the sense in which it impacts upon our understanding of Australian-Croatian settings. There is no doubt that Croatian DPs were much more numerous than Slovenian DPs. It has been argued that some specific discursive practices such as nostalgia and romanticism have the ability to keep the myth of return to the homeland alive.
