Subjects and Aliens : Histories of Nationality, Law and Belonging in Australia and New Zealand

Subjects and Aliens Histories of Nationality, Law and Belonging in Australia and New Zealand

Subjects and Aliens confronts the problematic history of belonging in Australia and New Zealand. In both countries, race has often been more important than the law in determining who is considered 'one of us'.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bagnall, Kate (-)
Other Authors: Prince, Peter
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Canberra : ANU Press 2023.
Edition:1st ed
Subjects:
Citizenship.
Race.
Civil rights.
Political rights.
Politics and Government - Civil rights and citizenship.
Australia > Race relations.
New Zealand > Race relations.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009803439906719
Table of Contents:
  • List of figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface / Kim Rubenstein
  • 1. Australia's 'alien races' meet New Zealand's 'race aliens' / Peter Prince and Kate Bagnall
  • 2. 'Not substantially of European origin or descent' : how race came to shape Australian enlistment during World War I / Sophie Couchman
  • 3. Freedom and freehold : intergenerational land ownership by Chinese and Dalmatian farming families in New Zealand / Jane McCabe
  • 4. The 'silver-tongued orator' advocates for Australian Indians : Srinivasa Sastri's tour of Australia in 1922 / Margaret Allen
  • 5. 'Australian is an alien' : the position of Australian women married to 'aliens', 1920-49 / Emma Bellino
  • 6. 'Our Natives have no constitutional right to equal privileges with white people' : Western Australia's Natives (citizenship rights) Act 1944 / Peter Prince
  • 7. Was Namatjira an alien? The High Court's flawed history of belonging in Australia / Peter Prince
  • Contributors
  • Table of authorities
  • Index.

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