Unsettled subjects : race, mobility and colonial citizenship in the Australian settler colonies / Amanda Nettelbeck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nettelbeck, Amanda, author.

Series:

Critical perspectives on empire

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonists--Australia--History--19th century.

Colonists.

Imperialism.

Settler colonialism--Australia--History.

Settler colonialism.

Australia--Race relations--History--19th century.

Australia.

Australia--History--1788-1900.

Australia--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

Australia--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--Australia.

Great Britain.

Diplomatic relations.

Emigration and immigration.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Lying between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, Australia served as a crossroads for trade and migration across the British Empire. Australia's settler colonies were not only subject to British immigration but were also the destination of emigration from Asia and 'Asia Minor' on terms of both permanent settlement and fixed indenture. Amanda Nettelbeck argues that these unique patterns shaped nineteenth-century debates about the relationship of the settler colonies to a porous empire. She explores how intersecting concerns around race and mobility – two of the most enduring concerns of nineteenth-century governance – changed the terms of British subjecthood and informed the possibilities of imagined colonial citizenship. European mobility may have fuelled the invasive spread of settler colonialism and its notion of transposed 'Britishness', but non-European forms of mobility also influenced the terms on which new colonial identities could be made"-- Cambridge University Press.

Contents:

Restructuring the empire after slavery

Fashioning the empire's newest subjects : Indigenous and indentured peoples in the imperial gaze

Bridging the settler and plantation colonies : Indian labour emigration and the politics of settlerism

Governing British subjects and 'others' : the Chinese diaspora in the British Asia Pacific

Everyday citizens : colonial civic life in the age of settler sovereignty

Mobile citizens : 'mobility sovereignty', settler domesticity and the hawker debates

De facto citizens : accessing justice in the settler state.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge University Press, viewed November 18, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Nettelbeck, Amanda. Unsettled subjects

ISBN:

9781009489423

1009489429

9781009489454

1009489453

OCLC:

1539300127

Publisher Number:

CIPO000281496

CIPO000288584

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license