| spelling |
oapen-20.500.12657-879852024-03-28T14:03:23Z Subjects and Aliens Bagnall, Kate Prince, Peter nationality citizenship rights legal belonging Australian citizens citizenship Australia thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAZ Legal history thema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LND Constitutional and administrative law: general::LNDA Citizenship and nationality law Subjects and Aliens confronts the problematic history of belonging in Australia and New Zealand. In both countries, race has often been more important than the law in determining who is considered 'one of us'. Each chapter in the collection highlights the lived experiences of people who negotiated laws and policies relating to nationality and citizenship rights in twentieth-century Australasia, including Chinese Australians enlisting during the First World War, Dalmatian gum-diggers turned farmers in New Zealand, Indians in 1920s Australia arguing for their citizenship rights, and Australian women who lost their nationality after marrying non-British subjects. The book also considers how the legal belonging—and accompanying rights and protections—of First Nations people has been denied, despite the High Court of Australia’s recent assertion (in the landmark Love & Thoms case of 2020) that Aboriginal people have never been considered ‘aliens’ or ‘foreigners’ since 1788. The experiences of world-famous artist Albert Namatjira, and of those made to apply for ‘certificates of citizenship’ under Western Australian law, suggest otherwise. Subjects and Aliens demonstrates how people who legally belonged were denied rights and protections as citizens through the actions of those who created, administered and interpreted the law across the twentieth century, and how the legal ramifications of those actions can still be felt today. 2024-02-23T15:44:41Z 2024-02-23T15:44:41Z 2023 book ONIX_20240223_9781760465865_15 9781760465865 9781760465858 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/87985 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International book.pdf ANU Press ANU Press 10.22459/SA.2023 10.22459/SA.2023 ddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71 9781760465865 9781760465858 ANU Press 210 Canberra open access
|
| description |
Subjects and Aliens confronts the problematic history of
belonging in Australia and New Zealand. In both countries, race has often been
more important than the law in determining who is considered 'one of
us'. Each chapter in the collection highlights the lived experiences of
people who negotiated laws and policies relating to nationality and citizenship
rights in twentieth-century Australasia, including Chinese Australians enlisting
during the First World War, Dalmatian gum-diggers turned farmers in New Zealand,
Indians in 1920s Australia arguing for their citizenship rights, and Australian
women who lost their nationality after marrying non-British subjects. The book
also considers how the legal belonging—and accompanying rights and
protections—of First Nations people has been denied, despite the High Court of
Australia’s recent assertion (in the landmark Love & Thoms case of 2020)
that Aboriginal people have never been considered ‘aliens’ or ‘foreigners’ since
1788. The experiences of world-famous artist Albert Namatjira, and of those made
to apply for ‘certificates of citizenship’ under Western Australian law, suggest
otherwise. Subjects and Aliens demonstrates how people who legally belonged were
denied rights and protections as citizens through the actions of those who
created, administered and interpreted the law across the twentieth century, and
how the legal ramifications of those actions can still be felt today.
|
