Category: Migration
HMT Dunera 80 years on: How rough justice changed the life of a child refugee to Britain
Rachel Pistol and Melissa Strauss 2020 marks the 80th anniversary of when 2,546 men were deported from Britain to Australia on the HMT Dunera. The convict ships of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries may have ceased their travels some 70 years before but that did not… Continue Reading “HMT Dunera 80 years on: How rough justice changed the life of a child refugee to Britain”
Deep Mapping Migrant Settlerhood: Unfolding histories of Finns in Canada
Samira Saramo At the turn of the twentieth century, Finnish migrants, drawn by the familiar landscape of lakes, forests, and rocky outcrop, settled in the rugged wilderness of Northern Ontario in Canada and overcame the harsh conditions of the early years through their inherent… Continue Reading “Deep Mapping Migrant Settlerhood: Unfolding histories of Finns in Canada”
The British Army’s Chinese Auxiliaries in Arctic Russia
Yuexin Rachel Lin While conducting research in the Academia Sinica digital archives in 2017, I stumbled across a remarkable document: A list of Chinese workers, part of a labour company recruited by the Slavo-British Legion in the northern Russian cities of Murmansk and Archangel.… Continue Reading “The British Army’s Chinese Auxiliaries in Arctic Russia”
