Hazara stories of transition from flight to success: Reflecting on embodied interviewing practice in two interviews with post-settlement refugee Australian Hazaras

This paper describes an interview I conducted in late 2015 with two Australian Hazara post- settlement refugees living in Dandenong. The paper explores themes of the stories they tell, from the trauma of their journeys to Australia to locating themselves as successful migrants in Dandenong. The paper also explores the embodied context of the interview itself, looking at the ways in which identities were constructed in the physical sphere of the interview, through objects, dress, behaviour and gestures. This attention to embodiment provides a reminder of the immediacy of the stories being told, which attempts to remove the fallacy of the invisible, omnipotent interviewer.