All Outputs (9)

Rethinking Gender, Citizenship, and War: Female Enemy Aliens in Australia during World War I (2021)
Journal Article

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

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’.

Stan Neal. Singapore, Chinese Migration and the Making of the British Empire, 1819–67. Worlds of the East India Company 17. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2019. Pp. 202. $115.00 (cloth). (2020)
Journal Article

'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

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

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.

Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana by Carina E. Ray (Review) (2017)
Journal Article

Book review.

After the British World (2017)
Journal Article

Within the expanding field of global history, historians often conceive of distinct integrated ‘worlds’: discrete if permeable cultural units capable of coherent study. Some are defined exogenously through factors such as oceanic geography, others ar... Read More about After the British World.

Asian migration and the British World, c.1850–c.1914 (2015)
Book Chapter

Chinese Labour in South Africa, 1902-10 Race, Violence, and Global Spectacle (2013)
Book