Archive for January, 2011
Andrew Markus and Moshe Semyonov (ed.), Immigration and Nation Building: Australia and Israel Compared (Edward Elgar Publishing 2010). Contents: Introduction 1. Demography – Trends and Composition Karin Amit, Sergio Della Pergola and Allan Borowski 2. Immigration Laws Na’ama Carmi and Susan Kneebone 3. Integration into the Labor Market of Host Societies Yitzhak Haberfeld and Anne […]
Filed under: Australia, Israel/Palestine, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Damen Ward, ‘Legislation, Repugnancy and the Disallowance of Colonial Laws: The Legal Structure of Empire and Lloyd’s Case (1844)’, Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 41 (2010). Abstract: The imperial government had the ability to disallow New Zealand colonial ordinances that were “repugnant to the laws of England”. “Repugnancy” did not operate as a clear […]
Filed under: Empire, law, New Zealand, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Carl J. Guarneri, ‘Mapping the Anglo-American Settler Empire’, Diplomatic History 35, 1 (2011). In the nineteenth century, British imperial spokesmen routinely referred to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa as “settler colonies,” where Britons migrated in large numbers, dominated indigenous peoples, and successfully transplanted European ways. The term distinguished these “white dominions” from colonial […]
Filed under: Scholarship and insights | Closed
fire
In the early morning hours of 29 December 2010, settlers set fire to a family’s dwelling in Susiya village.
Filed under: Israel/Palestine | Closed
settler colonial studies blog 