'As soon as we got here we lost everything': the migration memories and religious lives of the old believers in Australia

The Old Believers are a Russian Orthodox migrant community that has been resettled in Australia during the 1950s and 1960s. Concerned with their migrant past and diasporic present, the Old Believers in Australia make meaning of their religious tradition, cultural heritage and migrant identities. This thesis explores the complexity of this meaning making process. A set of life history interviews reveals that the Old Believers continuously move in-between - between their imagination of a Russian homeland, memories of their former settlement in China and their present living in the Australian diaspora.