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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.

Professional Migration, Occupational Challenge, and Mental Health: Medical Practitioners in New Zealand, 1850s-1890s (2020)
Journal Article
Tomkins. (2020). Professional Migration, Occupational Challenge, and Mental Health: Medical Practitioners in New Zealand, 1850s-1890s. Social History of Medicine, 874-894. https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkaa064

Australasian colonies were promoted as ‘lands of opportunity’ for British medical practitioners of the Victorian period, but once there doctors often found that any problems they faced had travelled with them. Furthermore, the act of migration could... Read More about Professional Migration, Occupational Challenge, and Mental Health: Medical Practitioners in New Zealand, 1850s-1890s.