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Lives in Migration: Rupture and Continuity 3. The Stolen Generations, a Narrative of Removal, Displacement and Recovery Martin Renes Copyright©2011 Martin Renes. This text may be archived and redistributed both in electronic form and in hard copy, provided that the author and publication are properly cited and no fee is charged. “The real horror story of Aboriginal Australia today is locked in police files and child welfare reports. It is a story of private misery and degradation, caused by a complex chain of historical circumstance, that continues into the present” (Kevin Gilbert 1984 [1978]: 2-3) “Today Indigenous Australians assert that rather than referring to a distinct policy governing a specific slice of time, assimilation ha s persisted as core doctrine in policy-making over the generations from first contact to the present” (Anna Haebich 2008: 9) 1. Relocation and dislocation After Europeans massively settled other continents on the waves of capitalist development and expansion, globalisation has made Europe a receptor rather than source of migrants. Its increasingly ethnically-mixed profile has forced a debate on the nature of Europeanness, and affects the rights and obligations of immigrant populations (Vidal-Folch 2008; Zizek 2010). The appearance of xenophobic parties and the recent right-wing pull in many national parliaments are a clear indication of the vexed nature of European cosmopolitanism and multiculturality. Indeed, it is the complex cultural fit and misfit of migrants within Europe’s social tissue and the facilities and constraints influencing this pro