Australian Migration History Network

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The Watchmaker's War: A compelling historical novel of revenge and justice, based on the true story of Nazi hunters in Australia :HarperCollins Australia share.google/hLI5qKc4RoB4...

PhD opportunity! Work with Ruth Balint and @juliekalman.bsky.social
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Gosh this sort of thing annoys me. See Karen Agutter's brilliant article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What’s in a name? Historical Chinese Australian names throw up all sorts of challenges – from the ubiquity of ‘Ah’ to confusion of name order – but in my recent research on Chinese Tasmanian history, it&…

new blogpost by @baibi.bsky.social
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Old gravestone with the name Claude Nan Shing and other faint Chinese and English words on it

View of Claude Nam Shing’s grave among other graves in Cornelian Bay cemetery

There’s valuable information recorded in Chinese on Tasmania’s old Chinese headstones that is gradually disappearing, like on Claude Nam Shing’s headstone in Cornelian Bay Cemetery. I’ve worked out some of the characters, but not all of them. Any thoughts, clever people? 🗃️ #EverdayHeritage

Malcolm Fraser Research Grant Malcolm Fraser Research Grant

Applications due 15 March 🚨 for projects including immigration & multiculturalism
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Oral Histories of Displaced Persons: “What for? The Story Like Mine’s Plenty Now” This chapter takes as its subject the memories of the 170,000 displaced persons (DPs)—predominantly Central and Eastern Europeans—who arrived in Australia as International Refugee Organiza...

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Oral Histories of Displaced Persons: “What for? The Story Like Mine’s Plenty Now”

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1960s films restored in hope of enticing new migrants to regional Australia The National Film and Sound Archive has released 4K restorations of the 1960s film series Life in Australia, commissioned by the Department of Immigration to attract new migrants to regional Australia...

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We celebrate our member organisation, the Italian Historical Society of South Australia, on a landmark year 🇮🇹

Honouring 50–70 years of Italian community organisations, La Partenza, a 10th Anniversary Gala, and growing oral histories—celebrating legacy and living history.

No Trace: ASIO and the End of the White Australia Policy This contribution to the special issue studies the history of the White Australia Policy through an exploration of the intersections between national security, immigration restriction and social re...

🚨 new article by Sean Brawley
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Tracing the long history of Aboriginal-Chinese people in Australia, through archives and art Our Story: Aboriginal Chinese People at the National Museum of Australia brings together contemporary art, personal reflections and archival photographs

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Perry McIntyre: Single young women immigrants from Irish workhouses Historian Perry McIntyre explores the immigration scheme to bring young destitute single women to Australia during the years 1848–50.

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How baseball helped shape Japanese migrants’ experiences during the White Australia policy The century-old story of Sydney’s Nippon Baseball Club offers insights into the lives of Asian migrants during the White Australia policy.

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Book: Ikarians in South Australia, 1900-1945

My book 'Ikarians in South Australia' arrived in print on New Years Eve -

Many thanks to @anthempress.bsky.social for their support in publishing!

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The Jewish Refugee Family and Concerns Over Intermarriage in Australia After 1945∗ Abstract. Intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews was conceptualized as a ‘problem’ by the Australian Jewish establishment after the Second World War. From

🚨 new article by Ruth Balint
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'Aussie' poster in Adelaide vandalised with 'white power' graffiti An Adelaide street artist's poster aimed at provoking thought about national identity has been vandalised with racist graffiti.

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A Multicultural Nomad and Diasporic Intellectual: In Honour of Sneja Gunew This chapter honours the work of Professor Sneja Gunew who died in January 2024. It pays particular attention to how her analyses of Australian multiculturalism remain pertinent to the pursuit of migr...

My tribute to the late Sneja Gunew, published in the terrific new collection Researching Migration on Indigenous Lands, edited by @pastmigrations & Francesco Ricatti- open access & packed with innovative scholarship

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Researching Migration on Indigenous Lands This open access book provides an assessment of Australian migration studies on Indigenous lands and identifies issues of colonialism. Free access!

📢 new edited collection
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📢 New book by Amanda Nettelbeck
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Migropessimism of the Intellect, Migro-Optimism of the Will: The Italian-Australian Experience Focusing on the Italian-Australian experience, this article outlines its authors’ migropessimism and their subsequent migro-optimism. We initially focus on what we perceive as the migrant’s ‘ontolo...

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James Watson reviews ‘Immigrant Industry: Building Postwar Australia’ by Anoma Pieris, Mirjana Lozanovska, Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social, Andrew Saniga and David Beynon
Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social

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Friday essay: how ASIO spied on Australia’s Greek migrants during the Cold War As ‘aliens’, postwar Greek immigrants attracted the attention of ASIO, irrespective of their political affiliation.

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Diversity and collecting practices at the museum of Chinese Australian history in Melbourne This paper examines the entanglement between collecting and community diversity at the Museum of Chinese Australian History (MCAH) in Melbourne. In Australia, culture-specific museums emerged in th...

New article by Vanessa Shia & Virginie Rey
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This is in a new history of Aus, written by an academic.
There were Jewish quotas. There were interviews so that immigration officers could make sure that no Jews were included in the 170,000 DPs. "The Holocaust" was not yet a thing.

Fascists in Exile: Post-War Displaced Persons in Australia Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2025)

"Persian forces readers to confront the uneasy coexistence of humanitarianism and hypocrisy in Australia’s post-war nation-building."

Pierluigi Bolioli reviews @drjpersian.bsky.social's 'Fascists in Exile' for @jich.bsky.social (advance access)

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My contribution to the Whitlam discourse is that, in my research around leftist allegations against Croatians & ASIO, Jim Cairns could generously be termed naive and/or not someone who needed hard evidence in order to agree in principle to firebombing people's homes.

New blog post by Alexa Ridgeway
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Who was Tie Cum Ah Chung? If you have wandered past the library on the corner of Murray and Bathurst streets, Hobart, you might have noticed a billboard featuring arresting black-and-white portraits of a young Asian woman i…

New blog post from me - ‘Who was Tie Cum Ah Chong?’ - in which I consider the curious early life of a young immigrant Chinese woman in Tasmania 120 years ago.

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#ChineseTasmanianStories #EverydayHeritage 🗃️

Fun fact: several years after his Provisional Government was deposed by the Bolsheviks in 1917, former Russian prime minister Alexander Kerensky married Brisbane-born Nell Tritton and relocated briefly to peaceful, leafy Clayfield in Brisbane’s northern suburbs www.smh.com.au/world/alexan...

Hungary’s relationship with its diasporic heritage: do hyphenated identities disappear through repatriation? The Hungarian National Library (or National Széchényi Library) and the National Archives of Hungary has been collecting ‘Hungarica’ materials abroad since the nineteenth century. The National Széch...

New article by Ilona Fekete
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