ABSTRACT
This chapter examines some concrete analyses of 'second generation Greek Australians' with several aims in mind. It proposes to demonstrate not only the falseness of such a separation, but the constant inter-referencing of subjective and objective accounts. The chapter concentrates on Greek-Australians because of my own familiarity with the subject of Greek migration, but also because the author believes that ethnospecific analyses can offer a deeper understanding than that provided by generalities about migrants or 'ethnics'. It demonstrates not only the falseness of such a separation, but the constant inter-referencing of subjective and objective accounts. One of the pervasive divisions in the social sciences is that between subjective and objective accounts of social phenomena. This division is obviously pertinent to questions about representation and claims to legitimate knowledge, but it has more general significance in the very construction of knowledges. The views of second generation Greek women were also presented at a workshop held at Monash University in 1988.
