Ruth Balint is an Associate Professor in History at the University of New South Wales. She writes and teaches about histories of migration and refugees. Her forthcoming book, Destination Elsewhere: Displaced persons and their quest to leave Europe after 1945, is published with Cornell University Press. A co-written book with Julie Kalman, Smuggled: An illegal history of journeys to Australia is published with NewSouth Publishing, and will be out in 2021.