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Rethinking Gender, Citizenship, and War: Female Enemy Aliens in Australia during World War I (2021)
Journal Article
Bright, R. (2022). Rethinking Gender, Citizenship, and War: Female Enemy Aliens in Australia during World War I. Immigrants and Minorities, 40(1-2), 13-58. https://doi.org/10.1080/02619288.2021.1977126

Enemy aliens were undesirable migrants in Australia during World War I, right? Yet enemy alien women who sought naturalisation were largely successful. Using the concept of ‘desire’, this article uses quantitative and qualitative material from women’... Read More about Rethinking Gender, Citizenship, and War: Female Enemy Aliens in Australia during World War I.

'Migration, naturalisation, and the ‘British’ world, c.1900-1920’ (2020)
Journal Article
Bright. (2020). 'Migration, naturalisation, and the ‘British’ world, c.1900-1920’

This article explores the distinctly legal vagueness that underpinned citizenship and subjecthood in the British empire in the early twentieth century, drawing specifically on examples from South Africa and Australia. Situating the administration of... Read More about 'Migration, naturalisation, and the ‘British’ world, c.1900-1920’.

'A great deal of discrimination is necessary in administering the law': Frontier Guards and Migration Control in early twentieth century South Africa (2018)
Journal Article
Bright. (2018). 'A great deal of discrimination is necessary in administering the law': Frontier Guards and Migration Control in early twentieth century South Africa. https://doi.org/10.1163/23519924-00401003

This article provides a corrective to recent scholarship surrounding modern migration control, which have emphasised the shared origins of the legal systems created to control migration in the US, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Inst... Read More about 'A great deal of discrimination is necessary in administering the law': Frontier Guards and Migration Control in early twentieth century South Africa.

Migration, Masculinity and Mastering the “Queue”: A Case of Chinese Scalping (2017)
Journal Article
Bright. (2017). Migration, Masculinity and Mastering the “Queue”: A Case of Chinese Scalping. Journal of World History, 28(3 & 4), 551-586. https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2017.0042

In 1906, a South African newspaper published a picture of a Chinese man's scalp. An investigation revealed that traditional braids were regularly taken from executed Chinese prisoners and sold to high-ranking colonial officials as curiosities for the... Read More about Migration, Masculinity and Mastering the “Queue”: A Case of Chinese Scalping.