Chinese Australian women's experiences of migration and mobility in white Australia

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Abstract

This chapter gives voice to Chinese Australian women’s experience of migration and mobility in the White Australia policy era (1901–1973). Chinese Australians and their communities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have, and continue to be, the focus of much important research. However, as this volume highlights, much is still unknown about Chinese Australian women’s lives in the White Australia policy era. Given that the policy was only formally abandoned forty years ago, Chinese Australian women who lived through this period of time—as immigrants or Australian-born citizens—are important sources of information regarding their own lived realties in this historical and geographical context. The valuable insights Chinese Australian women can provide has been highlighted in the work of Carole Tan, Diana Giese, Janis Wilton, and Shen Yuanfang. Alongside the work of Manying Ip in New Zealand, and Huping Ling and Judy Yung in Canada and the United States, this body of research has also illustrated that the voices of Chinese ‘Gold Mountain’ women are invaluable in providing nuanced and inclusive insights into nineteenth- and twentieth-century Chinese migration and settlement experiences in the ‘West’.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLocating Chinese Women: Historical Mobility between China and Australia
EditorsKate Bagnall, Julia T. Martínez
Place of PublicationChina
PublisherHong Kong University Press
Pages105-125
Number of pages21
ISBN (Print)9789888528615
Publication statusPublished - 2021

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