ABSTRACT
Migration is usually about leaving difficulties behind and heading for better living conditions, e.g., when food is getting scarce people move to more fertile areas. Another kind of migration consists of children running away from those conditions, like Sally Morgan’s great-uncle Arthur, who hated the unbearably violent conditions of the school he had been forced into to the extent that he ran away never to return. Arthur Corunna’s story begins on the Corunna Downs Station in the north of Western Australia. Arthur’s life story takes the shape of migration, moving geographically and socially, a class journey — in Western terms. Language is often related to movement, geographically and culturally and could thus be seen as one aspect of migration to be taken into account.
