When Paul Keating announced his plans for an Australian republic in 1995, he emphatically appealed for Australia's head of state to be 'one of us'. This 'us' needs no explanation when it is used, but debate still rages about 'who we are' and 'what it means to be Australian.' This book examines the ideas and policies that Australian governments have used, since Federation, to create 'an Australian citizenry'. Using previously neglected archival sources and recent work on race and nationalism, it attempts a reconceptualisation of Australian immigration and citizenship. The book will be of particular interest for its treatment of the long decline of the White Australia policy from the mid-1950s, and in the light of current debates about immigration and who should be allowed to become Australian.
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Höhe: 235 mm
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978-0-86840-556-8 (9780868405568)
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Preface; 1 A short history of citizenship; 2 A White civilisation; Race, nationality and ethnicity; The variants of official racism; The purpose and machinery of White Australia; Exclusion from naturalisation; 3 The attributes of Europeans; The racialisation of Europeans From encouragement to restriction... and back again; 4 Racism under challenge Justifying racial exclusion The irrelevance of race Altering appearances; 5 The end of White Australia? The abolition of racial discrimination Non-discrimination and nationalist backlash; 6 The call of the blood The dangers of aliens Aliens reconsidered; 7 Political infections Movement and subversion Expulsion; Naturalisation 8 Cold War loyalties ASIO; Communists, war criminals and Croatian extremists Postscript, 1970-2000; 9 The Australian citizenry Traversing boundaries Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
