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Australia, Migration and Empire

Immigrants in a Globalised World

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Editors:
  1. Philip Payton

    1. College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

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  2. Andrekos Varnava

    1. College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

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  • 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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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Australia, Migration and Empire

    • Philip Payton, Andrekos Varnava
    Pages 1-11

  3. British Emigrants and the Making of the Anglosphere: Some Observations and a Case Study

    • Eric Richards
    Pages 13-43

  4. Emigrant Choices: Following Emigrant Labourers on the Cusp of the Age of Mass Migration

    • Heidi Ing
    Pages 45-68

  5. Why Single Female Emigration to New South Wales (1832–1837) Was Doomed to Disappoint

    • Melanie Burkett
    Pages 69-91

  6. Squatter-Cum-Pastoralist or Freeholder? How Differences in Nineteenth-Century Colonists’ Experiences Affect Their Descendants’ Historical Consciousness

    • Skye Krichauff
    Pages 93-118

  7. Distress in Ireland 1879–1880: The Activation of the South Australian Community

    • Stephanie James
    Pages 119-150

  8. ‘Yet We Are Told That Australians Do Not Sympathise with Ireland’: South Australian Support for Irish Home Rule

    • Fidelma Breen
    Pages 151-179

  9. Cornish Miners in Western Australia 1850–1896

    • Anthony Nugent
    Pages 181-206

  10. Bal-Maidens and Cousin Jenny: The Paradox of Women in Australia’s Historic Mining Communities

    • Philip Payton
    Pages 207-228

  11. Mary Booth and British Boy Immigration: From Progressivism to Imperial Nationalism

    • Bridget Brooklyn
    Pages 229-252

  12. The Memorialisation of Hector Vasyli: Civilisational Prestige, Imperial Association and Greek Migrant Performance

    • Andonis Piperoglou
    Pages 253-276

  13. Dealing with Destitute Cypriots in the UK and Australia, 1914–1931

    • Andrekos Varnava, Evan Smith
    Pages 277-312

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 313-319
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

    Philip Payton, Andrekos Varnava

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

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