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Unsettled Subjects

Race, Mobility and Colonial Citizenship in the Australian Settler Colonies

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Lying between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, Australia served as a crossroads for trade and migration across the British Empire. Australia's settler colonies were not only subject to British immigration but were also the destination of emigration from Asia and 'Asia Minor' on terms of both permanent settlement and fixed indenture. Amanda Nettelbeck argues that these unique patterns shaped nineteenth-century debates about the relationship of the settler colonies to a porous empire. She explores how intersecting concerns around race and mobility - two of the most enduring concerns of nineteenth-century governance - changed the terms of British subjecthood and informed the possibilities of imagined colonial citizenship. European mobility may have fuelled the invasive spread of settler colonialism and its notion of transposed 'Britishness', but non-European forms of mobility also influenced the terms on which new colonial identities could be made.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-11-20
Mått157 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt491 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCritical Perspectives on Empire
Antal sidor232
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009489430

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Part I. British Subjects and Others in a Porous Empire (1835–1855): 1. Restructuring the empire after slavery; 2. Fashioning the empire's newest subjects: Indigenous and indentured peoples in the imperial gaze; 3. Bridging the settler and plantation colonies: Indian labour emigration and the politics of settlerism; 4. Governing British subjects and 'others': the Chinese diaspora in the British Asia Pacific; 5. Everyday citizens: colonial civic life in the age of settler sovereignty; Part II. Citizenship Practices in the Settler State (1870–1903); 6. Mobile citizens: 'mobility sovereignty', settler domesticity and the hawker debates; 7. De facto citizens: accessing justice in the settler state.

'Unsettled Subjects shows brilliantly just how differently Australian history is being written today. In place of the imperial and national histories of old, we have here a deft exploration of citizenship, belonging, and racial exclusion set in a very wide framework indeed. Students of Australian colonial history and specialist historians of race, colonialism, and empire alike will enjoy this book.' Ann Curthoys, Australian National University