Testing the Boundaries of White Australia: Domestic Servants and Immigration Policy, 1901-45

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorHigman, Barry
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-13T22:37:44Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.date.updated2015-12-11T09:38:24Z
dc.description.abstractIn the period 1901-45 Australian governments sought to increase the nation's domestic service workforce through immigration while confining that immigration to British sources. Implementation of the White Australia policy resulted in an active deportation of household workers, particularly in the tropical north. In spite of broad acceptance of race-based immigration restrictions as a national ideal, calls came from the tropical and pastoral margins for a relaxation specific to domestic service in order to encourage white women to settle in remote areas. Proponents of non-British immigration argued that such servants would enable the long-term achievement of White Australia but they met firm resistance.
dc.identifier.issn0261-9288
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/77229
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis Group
dc.sourceImmigrants and Minorities
dc.subjectKeywords: domestic work; historical perspective; immigrant population; immigration policy; race; Australasia; Australia; Australia; Deportation; Domestics; Immigration; Immigration Policy; Race; Australia; Domestics; Immigration; Immigration Policy; Race
dc.titleTesting the Boundaries of White Australia: Domestic Servants and Immigration Policy, 1901-45
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage21
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage1
local.contributor.affiliationHigman, Barry, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.authoremailu9600863@anu.edu.au
local.contributor.authoruidHigman, Barry, u9600863
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.description.refereedYes
local.identifier.absfor210303 - Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History)
local.identifier.ariespublicationMigratedxPub6126
local.identifier.citationvolume22
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-2942522438
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByMigrated
local.type.statusPublished Version

Downloads

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
01_Higman_Testing_the_Boundaries_of_2003.pdf
Size:
1.43 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download

Collections

ANU Research Publications

DSpace software copyright © 2002-2024 LYRASIS