Subjects and Aliens : Histories of Nationality, Law and Belonging in Australia and New Zealand / edited by Kate Bagnall and Peter Prince.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bagnall, Kate, editor.

Prince, Peter, 1959- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship.

Civil rights.

Race.

Political rights.

Australia--Race relations.

Australia.

New Zealand--Race relations.

New Zealand.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Canberra, ACT : ANU Press, [2023]

Summary:

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'.

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.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781760465865

1760465860

OCLC:

1417725648