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Immigration restriction: rethinking period and place from settler colonies to postcolonial nations

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Immigration acts have long been analysed as instrumental to the working of the modern nation-state. A particular focus has been the racial exclusions and restrictions that were adopted by aspirationally white, new world nation-states: Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States. This article looks again at the long modern history of immigration restriction in order to connect the history of these settler-colonial race-based exclusions (much studied) with immigration restriction in postcolonial nation-states (little studied). It argues for the need to expand the scope of immigration restriction histories geographically, temporally and substantively: beyond the settler nation, beyond the Second World War, and beyond ‘race’. The article focuses on the Asia-Pacific region, bringing into a single analytical frame the early immigration laws of New Zealand, Australia, the United States, and Canada on the one hand and those of Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Fiji on the other.

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  • Bashford, Alison, 2014. "Immigration restriction: rethinking period and place from settler colonies to postcolonial nations," Journal of Global History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 9(1), pages 26-48, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jglhis:v:9:y:2014:i:01:p:26-48_00
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    1. Tobias Schwarz, 2016. "Naturalisation policies beyond a Western focus," Migration Letters, Migration Letters, vol. 13(1), pages 1-15, January.
    2. Luis Felipe Zegarra, 2020. "Living Costs and Real Wages in Nineteenth Century Lima: Levels and International Comparisons," Australian Economic History Review, Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 60(2), pages 186-219, July.

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