History, Historians and the Immigration Debate

This book is a response to the binary thinking and misuse of history that characterize contemporary immigration debates. Subverting the traditional injunction directed at migrants to 'go back to where they came from', it highlights the importance of the past to contemporary discussions around migration. It argues that historians have a significant contribution to make in this respect and shows how this can be done with chapters from scholars in the UK, Asia, Europe, Australasia and North America. Through their work on global, transnational and national histories of migration, an alternative view emerges - one that complicates our understanding of 21st-century migration and reasserts movement as a central dimension of the human condition. History, Historians and the Immigration Debate makes the case for historians to assert themselves more confidently as expert commentators, offering a reflection on how we write migration history today and the forms it might take in thefuture.

Auteur

Eureka Henrich is a Research Fellow in Conflict, Memory and Legacy at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, and an Honorary Associate of the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College London, UK. Her work explores histories of migration, health, heritage and memory in Australian and transnational contexts.

Julian M. Simpson is an independent writer and researcher based in the North of England. He has published widely on the history of migration, the history of healthcare and the relevance of history to policy. He is the author of Migrant Architects of the NHS: South Asian doctors and the reinvention of British general practice (2018).

Contenu

Chapter 1: Introduction: History as a 'Martial Art'; Eureka Henrich and Julian M. Simpson.- SECTION 1: MOVING MIGRATION HISTORY FORWARD.- Chapter 2: From the Margins of History to the Political Mainstream: Putting Migration History Centre Stage; Eureka Henrich and Julian M. Simpson.- Chapter 3: Beyond the Apocalypse: Reframing Migration History; Leo Lucassen.- SECTION 2: AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND.- Chapter 4: Taking a Longer View: History, Politics and Trans-Tasman Migration; Lyndon Fraser.- Chapter 5: The Campaign to Address the Issue of Filipina Victims of Domestic Violence in Australia, 1980s-1990s; Mina Roces.- SECTION 3: ASIA.- Chapter 6: Not Singaporean Enough? Migration, History and National Identity in Singapore; John Solomon.- Chapter 7: 'They Never Call Us Indian': Indian Muslim Voices and the 1947 India/Pakistan Partition; Anindya Raychaudhuri.- SECTION 4: EUROPE.- Chapter 8: The Role of Immigration in the Making/Unmaking of the French Working Class (Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries); Gérard Noiriel, (translated from the original French by Julian M. Simpson).- Chapter 9: Was the Multiculturalism Backlash Good for Women? Perspectives from Five Minority Women's Organisations in the Netherlands.- Margaretha A. van Es.- SECTION 5: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES.- Chapter 10: Migrant Doctors and the 'Frontiers of Medicine' in Westernised Healthcare Systems; Julian M. Simpson.- Chapter 11: The Right to Asylum: A Hidden History; Klaus Neumann.- Chapter 12: Will the Twenty-First Century World Embrace Immigration History?; Donna Gabaccia.