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Anne Rees

Anne Rees

Anne Rees a David Myers Research Fellow at La Trobe University. She is a historian of Australia in the world, and her current research examines Australian women’s transpacific mobility and the impact of United States interwar immigration restriction upon Anglospheric relations. She also runs a website called ‘A Seat at the Table: Australian Women in Global Governance’, a joint initiate of Sydney’s Laureate Research Program in International History and the Harvard-based UN History Project.

The US Once Locked up White Australians Like Australia Does to Asylum Seekers Today

Last century, Australian “illegals” vehemently objected to being “penned like animals” in conditions that resembled “concentration camps”. Why, then, do we now think it’s acceptable to subject refugees and asylum seekers to much the same fate?

November 20th, 2017

By Anne Rees

The US Once Locked up White Australians Like Australia Does to Asylum Seekers Today

Lurking behind the debates about offshore processing lies a little-known historical irony: white Australians were once locked up in immigration centers that bore a striking resemblance to the Manus Island and Nauru detention centers, which were recently 

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Anne Rees

Anne Rees

Anne Rees a David Myers Research Fellow at La Trobe University. She is a historian of Australia in the world, and her current research examines Australian women’s transpacific mobility and the impact of United States interwar immigration restriction upon Anglospheric relations. She also runs a website called ‘A Seat at the Table: Australian Women in Global Governance’, a joint initiate of Sydney’s Laureate Research Program in International History and the Harvard-based UN History Project.

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