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Reconsidering the history of eugenics and discrimination in migration control (2024)
Journal Article
Bright, R. K., Cleall, E., & Kain, J. S. (2024). Reconsidering the history of eugenics and discrimination in migration control. Migration Studies, 13(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnaf002

Recent work on migration has increasingly demonstrated that, in order to understand the complexity of the current border regimes, we must take the history of their development seriously. This article argues that, in foregrounding complexity, historic... Read More about Reconsidering the history of eugenics and discrimination in migration control.

Women’s Histories in a Digital World: An Exploration of Digital Archives, Family History, and Domestic Violence in Early Twentieth-Century Australia (2024)
Journal Article
Bright, R. K. (2024). Women’s Histories in a Digital World: An Exploration of Digital Archives, Family History, and Domestic Violence in Early Twentieth-Century Australia. Genealogy, 8(4), Article 140. https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy8040140

In recent years, scholars have increasingly recognised the ways that colonialism, and related racism, embedded intergenerational trauma within families and communities. The role of domestic violence within families is widely accepted as important, bu... Read More about Women’s Histories in a Digital World: An Exploration of Digital Archives, Family History, and Domestic Violence in Early Twentieth-Century Australia.

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.