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Australia, Migration and Empire

Immigrants in a Globalised World
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This edited collection explores how migrants played a major role in the creation and settlement of the British Empire, by focusing on a series of Australian case studies. Despite their shared experiences of migration and settlement, migrants nonetheless often exhibited distinctive cultural identities, which could be deployed for advantage. Migration established global mobility as a defining feature of the Empire. Ethnicity, class and gender were often powerful determinants of migrant attitudes and behaviour. This volume addresses these considerations, illuminating the complexity and diversity of the British Empire’s global immigration story. Since 1788, the propensity of the populations of Britain and Ireland to immigrate to Australia varied widely, but what this volume highlights is their remarkable diversity in character and impact. The book also presents the opportunities that existed for other immigrant groups to demonstrate their loyalty as members of the (white) Australian community, along with notable exceptions which demonstrated the limits of this inclusivity.

Author Biography:

Philip Payton is Professor of History at Flinders University, South Australia, and Emeritus Professor of Cornish and Australian Studies at the University of Exeter, UK. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and has written and edited more than fifty books including ‘Repat’: A Concise History of Repatriation in Australia (2018) and The Cornish Overseas: A History of Cornwall’s Great Emigration (2019). Andrekos Varnava is Associate Professor in Imperial and Military History at Flinders University, South Australia, and an Honorary Professor at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. He is the author of numerous works, including the forthcoming British Cyprus and the Long Great War, 1914-1925: Empire, Loyalties and Democratic Deficit (2019).
Release date NZ
August 24th, 2019
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Edited by Andrekos Varnava
  • Edited by Philip Payton
Edition
1st ed. 2019
Illustrations
4 Illustrations, color; 11 Illustrations, black and white; XVII, 319 p. 15 illus., 4 illus. in color.
Pages
319
ISBN-13
9783030223885
Product ID
30451962

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