Mary Gilmartin, ‘British migrants and Irish anxieties’, Social Identities (2013). There is a long history of migration from Britain to Ireland, but it is rarely theorised as migration. Drawing on historical and contemporary sources as well as ongoing qualitative research, this paper makes visible the extended presence of British nationals, as migrants, in Ireland. In […]

Settler Colonial Studies, Vol. 3, No. 3-4 (2013)  is now available on Taylor & Francis Online.  Patrick Wolfe, ‘Recuperating Binarism: a heretical introduction’, pages 257-279 Dean Itsuji Saranillio, ‘Why Asian settler colonialism matters: a thought piece on critiques, debates, and Indigenous difference’, pages 280-294 Manu Vimalassery, ‘The wealth of the Natives: toward a critique of settler […]

By removing the display of 2,977 flags, not only did the five protestors disrespect their fellow students who worked hard on setting up the display, but they also took away the chance for other students to remember the victims of the horrific attacks 12 years ago. These five student protestors should be immediately sent to […]

Craig A. Lockard, ‘Chinese Migration and Settlement in Southeast Asia Before 1850: Making Fields From the Sea’, History Compass 11, 9 (2013). Human migration is a central theme in world and Asian history, but important cases, among them Chinese who emigrated to other countries between ca. 1000 and 1850 CE, have been somewhat neglected in […]

Has ‘race’ been a productive framework for thinking about Indigenous experience in Australia? In what ways have national histories cast the histories of dispossession and possession? How have Indigenous histories been shaped by transnational histories that move beyond static conceptions of colonial and national borders? Our panel argues that we need to rethink the writing […]

We are calling for contributions to an edited collection on settler colonialism in world history, to be published by Routledge in 2015. The collection has a large scope, and features contributions by specialists in their field. We are currently seeking the remaining contributions: settler colonialism in New Spain, and the American west generally, from contact […]

Shirleene Robinson, ‘Regulating the race: Aboriginal children in private European homes in colonial Australia’, Journal of Australian Studies 37, 3 (2013). This article focuses on the incorporation of Aboriginal children into European families on a private basis in the colonial era. While state-based missions and reserves were central sites where Aboriginal children were placed, other […]

Lorenzo Veracini, ‘Why Settler Australia Needs Refugees’, Arena Magazine (2013). Australia’s newest refugee policy, like its predecessors, is ostensibly designed to address the refugee ‘problem’. However, in this article I argue that beside concerns about ‘national interest’, ‘security’, and ‘border protection’, asylum seekers—dehumanised people piled up in different configurations outside of its borders—are useful, indeed necessary, […]

Kate Bowan, ‘”…that keen interest we have for the strange and the rare…”: The Radio Broadcasts of Adelaide composer Hooper Brewster-Jones (1930–1933)’, Journal of Music Research Online 1 (2009). The surviving transcripts of Adelaide composer Hooper Brewster-Jones’s lecture broadcasts given in the early 1930s on Adelaide’s recently established ABC radio station 5CL reveal a cosmopolitan […]