The Centre for WA History

Immigration, Migration, Ethnicity


Social Policy in Western Australia, Charlie Fox (ed.), 25, 2007


Book and other reviews

  • Raelene Wilding and Farida Tilbury (eds), A Changing People: Diverse Contributions to the State of Western Australia
    Michal Bosworth
  • Tim Chappell with Janina Milek, The Persian Blanket: The Life of Janina Milek
    Paul Sendzuik
  • Anne Partlon, Harps in the Mulga: A Bibliographical Guide to the Irish in Western Australia, 1829-2003
    Clement Mulcahy
  • Leigh S.L. Straw, A Semblance of Scotland: Scottish Identity in Colonial Western Australia
    Iain Brash
  • Val Colic-Peisker, Split Lives: Croatian Australian Stories
    Michal Bosworth
  • ‘Escape! Fremantle to Freedom’ – A Touring Exhibition reviewed when on display at Fremantle Prison
    Ian Chambers

Building a Colony: the Convict Legacy, Jacqui Sherriff & Anne Brake (eds), 24, 2006

Book or other reviews

  • Lionel Pearce, Feathers of a Snow Angel: Memories of a Child in Exile
    Penelope Hetherington
  • Reginald Appleyard and John N. Yiannakis, Greek Pioneers in Western Australia
    Michal Bosworth
  • Adrian Wood, (ed.), If This Should be Farewell: A Family Separated by War
    Brian De Garis


History and Native Title, Christine Choo & Shawn Hollbach (eds), 23, 2003

Book or other reviews

  • Loretta Baldassar, Visits home: Migration experiences between Italy and Australia
    Donna R Gabaccia
  • Judith E. Berman, Holocaust Remembrance in Australian Jewish Communities, 1945-2000
    Michael Berenbaum
  • Jan Gothard, Blue China: Single female emigration to colonial Australia
    Charlotte MacDonald
  • Nonja Peters, Milk and Honey but no Gold: Postwar migration to Western Australia 1945-1964
    Ellen Eisenberg


Wordal, Jill Milroy, John Host & Tom Stannage (eds), 22, 2001

Book or other reviews

  • Malcolm Turnbull, Safe Haven: Records of the Jewish Experience in Australia
    Raelene Frances
  • Barry Coldrey, Good British Stock: Child & Youth Migration in Australia
    Raelene Frances


Being Australian Women: Belonging, Citizenship and Identity, Cheryl Lange (ed.), 21, 2000

Articles

  • Gender, Ethnicity and Transnational Citizenship: Italian-Australian Experiences
    Loretta Baldassar
  • First Generation Polish Women in Western Australia: Matka Polka and National Identity
    Kerry Evans
  • ‘Just a piece of paper’: Dutch Women in Australia
    Nonja Peters
  • No Man’s Land: Re-orienting Citizenship for Chinese Malaysian Women in Australia
    Jan Ryan
  • ‘I myself think I’m Australian’: Belonging and Identity among Vietnamese-Australian Women
    Cheryl Lange & Diana Nisbet
  • ‘Parted from my origins’: Iranian Women Re-constructing Identity
    Nezhat Toolo & Siavash Shakibaee
  • Croatian and Bosnian Migration to Australia in the 1990s
    Val Colic-Peisker
  • ‘The Good Australians’: Multiculturalism and the Anglo-Indian Diaspora
    Glenn D’Cruz


The Irish in Western Australia, Bob Reece (ed.), 20, 2000

Articles

  • The Irish R.M: Capt. John Molloy of the Vasse
    Gill Hardwick
  • George Fletcher Moore
    James Cameron
  • The Revd George King
    Bob Reece
  • Friends and Neighbours: The Irish of Toodyay
    Rica Erickson
  • Joseph Noonan: Fenian Success Story
    Gillian O’Mara
  • A Trinity Man Abroad: Sir Winthrop Hackett
    Geoffrey Bolton
  • Mulcahy Bros.
    Clement M. Mulcahy
  • Champion of the Goldfields: John Waters Kirwan
    Anne Partlon
  • ‘I’m an Australian and speak as such’: The Perth Irish community’s responses to events in Ireland, 1900-1914
    Ian Chambers
  • Ronan Country: Jim and Tom Ronan in the North-West
    Don Grant
  • Not For Economic Gain: Elsie Butler in Western Australia
    Jean Chetkovich
  • Mary Durack: A Tribute
    Elizabeth Durack, Margaret O’Doherty, Joe O’Sullivan, Joan Walsh-Smith & Veronica Brady
  • ‘Singers Standing on the Outer Rim’: Writing About the Irish in WA
    Anne Partlon
Book or other review

  • Bart Srhoy, Journey Beyond Origin
    Jean Chetkovich


Women and Citizenship: Suffrage Centenary, Patricia Crawford & Judy Skene (eds), 19, 1999

Articles

  • Votes For All Women: Racialised Silences in Western Australian Suffrage Historiography
    Jasmina Brankovich
  • ‘You Have to Make Some Sort of Commitment’: Polish Migrant Women Taking Australian Citizenship in Western Australia 1947-1997
    Margot Clifford
Book or other reviews

  • Tom Pocock, Travels of a London Schoolboy 1826-1830
    Andrew Hassam
  • Maryon Allbrook, Journeys of Hope
    Loretta Baldassar
  • Margot Melia and Richard Bosworth, Western Australia as it is Today, 1906, Leopoldo Zunini (edited and trans. by Melia and Bosworth)
    Adelma Longton


Perspectives on Sport and Society, Ed Jaggard & Jan Ryan (eds), 18, 1997

Article

  • From Grom to Wisla – Soccer in Collie 1950-1971: Sport as a Forum for Immigrant Community Participation
    Kerry Evans


Historical Traces, Jenny Gregory (ed.), 17, 1997

Book or other review

  • Maryon Allbrook & Helen Cattalini, The General Langfitt Story: Polish Refugees Recount Their Experiences of Exile, Dispersal and Resettlement
    Kerry Evans


Asian Orientations, Jan Gothard (ed.), 16, 1995

Articles

  • Japanese War Brides in Western Australia: Immigration and Assimilation in the Nineteen Fifties
    Julie Easton
  • Choice or Chance? Self-employment among the Vietnamese in Perth, Western Australia
    Nonya Peters
  • Jumna Khan
    Charlie Fox
  • Placing Restrictions Upon Them: Controlling ‘Free’ Chinese Immigrants and Capital in Western Australia
    Anne Atkinson
  • Asian Men on the West Kimberley Coast, 1900-1940
    Christine Choo
  • The Broome Race Riots of 1920
    Michael Schaper
  • The Last Colonial Act: The Expulsion of Indonesian Fishermen from the North West Coast
    Bruce C. Campbell
  • The View West: The Indian Ocean Trading World and Western Australia to 1914
    Andrew Pope
Book or other reviews

  • S. Fitzgerald & G. Wotherspoon, Minorities: Cultural Diversity in Sydney
    Richard Bosworth
  • Jan Ryan, Ancestors: Chinese in Colonial Australia
    Esta Ungar


Media, Politics & Identity, Brian Shoesmith (ed.), 15, 1994

Article

  • Humour and Exclusion: Chinese Minorities and the Conservative Press in late Nineteenth Century Western Australia
    Jan Ryan
Book or other reviews

  • Michal and Richard Bosworth, Fremantle’s Italy
    Ros Pesman
  • Rupert Gerritsen, And Their Ghosts May Be Heard
    Ian Crawford


Historical Refractions, Charlie Fox (ed.), 14, 1993

Book or other reviews

  • Richard Bosworth and Romano Ugolini, War, Internment and Mass Migration: The Italo-Australian Experience 1940-1990
    Robert Pascoe
  • Don Munday, Tin Dog, Damper and Dust: A Shearer’s Life
    John Hirst
  • Bill Bunbury, Reading Labels on Jam Tins: Living Through Difficult Times
    Morag Loh


Private Enterprise, Government and Society, Frank Broeze (ed.), 13, 1992

Article

  • The Business of Chinese Coolie Immigration
    Jan Ryan
Book or other reviews

  • Douglas E. Darbyshire, In Time for Lunch
    Jan Gothard
  • Geoffrey Bolton and Heather Vose with Genelle Jones, The Wollaston Journals Volume 1: 1840-1842
    Anne Porter


Aspects of Ethnicity, Richard Bosworth & Margot Melia (eds), 12, 1991

Articles

  • Chinese Burials in Western Australia in the Nineteenth Century
    Jan Ryan
  • The Zunini Scheme – A Plan for Italian Group Settlement in Western Australia, 1906-1908
    Margot Melia
  • ‘All-British’ or ‘Anti-German’? A Portrait of a Western Australian Pressure Group during World War I
    Bobbie Oliver
  • Castellorizian Participation and Influence Within Perth’s Greek Community
    John N. Yiannakis
  • Yugoslavs in the Swan Valley and their Involvement in Viticulture
    Ena Ili_ Czeladka
  • Luigi Mistrorigo and La Stampa: The Strange Story of a Fascist Journalist in Perth
    Richard Bosworth
  • The Italian Feste of Western Australia and the Myth of the Universal Church
    Richard Bosworth & Margot Melia
  • The Unpromised Land: A Jewish Refugee Settlement in the Kimberley?
    Beverley Hooper
  • Conversations with Italian Women: Close Encounters of a Culinary Kind
    Michal Bosworth
Book or other review

  • Alexandra Hasluck, Portrait with Background
    Anne O’Brien


Western Australia Between the Wars 1919-1939, Jenny Gregory (ed.), 11, 1990

Book or other review

  • J. P. Gabbedy, Group Settlement
    John A. McKenzie


Religion and Society in Western Australia, John Tonkin (ed.), 9, 1987

Article

  • Perth’s Greek Orthodox Community Builds its own Cathedral, 1910-1936
    John Yiannakis


Women in Western Australian History, Patricia Crawford (ed.), 7, 1983

Book or other review

  • C. T. Stannage (ed.), A New History of Western Australia
    Beverley Kingston


Fred Alexander: A Tribute, Brian de Garis (ed.), 6, 1988

Book or other review

  • Rica Erickson, The Dempsters
    Alan Atkinson


Convictism in Western Australia, C. T. Stannage, 4, 1981

Article

  • The Fenians are Coming, the Fenians are Coming
    G. C. Bolton


Early Western Australia, 3, 1978

Book or other review

  • Merle Bignell, The Fruit of the Country
    F. K. Crowley