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 discussing the conflicted geographies of belonging of recent British migrants to Ireland, the paper highlights the ways in which postcolonial and nationalist discourses may suggest boundaries to belonging. However, these boundaries are undermined by the positioning of British migrants as not-quite-migrants in the changing landscape of migration in contemporary Ireland.

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 diversity training regarding respect for others’ freedom of speech. What they did was neither noble nor righteous, it was irrational and disrespectful. Each of them should apologize for dismantling a beautiful display honoring American heroes.

The vandals were quick to reference their heritage, but in an email to the Huffington Post the school’s director of public affairs, Sarah Ray, admitted it has “never before been suggested that this is a Native American burial ground.” We have grown tactlessly familiar with leftists, such as Elizabeth Warren and Ward Churchill, hiding behind made-up Native American backgrounds to cover their own prejudice toward others.

Hillary Cherry for CNS News.

Craig A. Lockard, ‘Chinese Migration and Settlement in Southeast Asia Before 1850: Making Fields From the Sea’, History Compass 11, 9 (2013).

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 of Indigenous history.

Rethinking Indigenous Histories, ABC Radio National, selections from the recent AHA conference in Wollongong.

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 to the early twentieth century;
• settler colonialism in Australia, from contact to early twentieth century;
• settler colonialism in Taiwan and Korea, WWII to the present;
• settler colonialism in Israel/Palestine, 1948 to the present;
• settler colonialism in the USA, early twentieth century to the present.

On top of this, we are also open to suggestions for further case studies, for thematic contributions, and for contributions featuring non-conventional geographies or periodisations.

Please send an expression of interest with CV jointly to Edward Cavanagh and Lorenzo Veracini.

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 Aboriginal children were privately placed with European families during the colonial era. This article explores the shifting reasons for this practice. It finds that Aboriginal children who entered European families away from the control of the state came under the control of Europeans through a variety of ways. Initially, Aboriginal child removals were conducted during the course of violent frontier conflict or involved children who had been impacted by introduced European diseases. Smaller numbers of Indigenous children were taken as objects of curiosity. As the nineteenth century progressed, however, it became increasingly common for settlers to take Indigenous children for labour purposes. The article argues that the white middle-class family was positioned as a site for “civilising” children, where the moral regulation of childhood was conducted. This article adds a new dimension to colonial understandings about the role and structure of the family. It also expands understandings about Indigenous child removal in Australia’s past.

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, to settler Australia. Here I adopt the specifically Australian definition of refugee: someone who must not be allowed to enter a particular space no matter how urgent his or her human right to do so, and someone who is not entitled to protection unless he or she is ‘processed’ first. It is a definition that only makes sense in the context of Australia’s public debate, and a definition that is not consistent with that of international law. Focusing on the ways in which a specifically settler-colonial understanding of Australia’s sovereign capacities informs public sensitivities can shed light on a particularly Australian process of paranoid abjection. (Not only are the two definitions different; one is the exact complement of the other: if a refugee is normally someone who must depart, in the Australian definition he or she is someone who must not arrive; in the one case, one can be anywhere but an original location; in the other, one can be anywhere but the hoped-for final one.)

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 Australian composer eager to engage with other cultures. His cosmopolitanism is very much a rooted even provincial one, clearly embedded in his particular historical and cultural context. Nonetheless, the story of Brewster-Jones’s broadcasts helps to destabilise and complicate the picture of early twentieth-century Australian musical history. His encounters with musics modern, ancient and exotic add a missing page

to Australian broadcasting history and challenge the received orthodoxy of Australian music from this period as a pale imitation of English pastoralism.