Overview
- Examines migration within the British Empire and wider ‘Anglosphere’, taking Australia as a focus with a series of case studies
- Examines the complex contact between settlers and indigenous peoples, informed by the diversity of migrants’ backgrounds, ethnicities, religious affiliations and gender
- Argues that British-Irish migrants to Australia were not a homogenous group, but rather that these migrants exhibited distinctive cultural identities
Part of the book series: Britain and the World (BAW)
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This edited collection explores how migrants played a major role in the creation and settlement of the British Empire, by focusing on a series of Australian case studies. Despite their shared experiences of migration and settlement, migrants nonetheless often exhibited distinctive cultural identities, which could be deployed for advantage. Migration established global mobility as a defining feature of the Empire. Ethnicity, class and gender were often powerful determinants of migrant attitudes and behaviour. This volume addresses these considerations, illuminating the complexity and diversity of the British Empire’s global immigration story. Since 1788, the propensity of the populations of Britain and Ireland to immigrate to Australia varied widely, but what this volume highlights is their remarkable diversity in character and impact. The book also presents the opportunities that existed for other immigrant groups to demonstrate their loyalty as members of the (white) Australian community, along with notable exceptions which demonstrated the limits of this inclusivity.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Philip Payton is Professor of History at Flinders University, South Australia, and Emeritus Professor of Cornish and Australian Studies at the University of Exeter, UK. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and has written and edited more than fifty books including ‘Repat’: A Concise History of Repatriation in Australia (2018) and The Cornish Overseas: A History of Cornwall’s Great Emigration (2019).
Andrekos Varnava is Associate Professor in Imperial and Military History at Flinders University, South Australia, and an Honorary Professor at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. He is the author of numerous works, including the forthcoming British Cyprus and the Long Great War, 1914-1925: Empire, Loyalties and Democratic Deficit (2019).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Australia, Migration and Empire
Book Subtitle: Immigrants in a Globalised World
Editors: Philip Payton, Andrekos Varnava
Series Title: Britain and the World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22389-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22388-5Published: 24 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22391-5Published: 25 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-22389-2Published: 12 August 2019
Series ISSN: 2947-7182
Series E-ISSN: 2947-7190
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 319
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Australasian History, Imperialism and Colonialism, Migration, Social History