At the border contagion, immigration, nation

Australian Historical Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 120, 2002, Pages 344-358

  Bashford, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; HISTORY; MIGRATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

AUSTRALIA; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; PREJUDICE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 14844344873     PISSN: 1031461X     EISSN: 19405049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10314610208596224     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Helen Irving, To Constitute a Nation: A Cultural History of Australia's Constitution(Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 109
2. Admissions and Exclusions: Asiatics and Other Coloured Races in Australia 1901-46(Canberra: Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies, 1995)
3. There is, however, a broad recognition of health and nationalism as overlapping social projects in the work of Roe, Gillespie and Walker. See Michael Roe, Nine Australian Progressives(St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1984)
4. Michael Roe, Australia, Britain and Migration, 1915-1940(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995). This book contains one of the few mentions of health testing and screening in the secondary literature, pp. 185-90
5. David Walker, Anxious Nation: Australia and the Rise of Asia, 1850-1939(St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1999)
6. James A. Gillespie, The Price of Health: Australian Governments and Medical Politics 1910-1960(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1991), 32-6
7. A.W. Weihen, 'Medical Inspection of Immigrants to Australia', Australasian Medical Congress Transactions 1,(1911): 635
8. A.-M. Jordens, Redefining Australians: Immigration, Citizenship and National Identity,(Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1995), 1
9. See, for example, Don McMaster, Asylum Seekers: Australia's Response to Refugees(Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001)
10. Alastair Davidson, From Subject to Citizen: Australian Citizenship in the Twentieth Century(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 150
11. A.C. Palfreeman, The Administration of the White Australia Policy(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967)
12. Anthea Hyslop's work tracing the Commonwealth's management of the post World-War I influenza epidemic also illustrates both the importance, and the some-time efficacy of uncompromising quarantine controls. See Anthea Hyslop, 'Insidious Immigrant: Spanish Influenza and Border Quarantine in Australia, 1919' in Migration to Mining, eds S. Parry and B. Reid(Darwin: Northern Territory University Press, 1997)
13. Anthea Hyslop, 'Old Ways, New Means: Fighting Spanish Influenza in Australia, 1918-1919' in New Countries, Old Medicine, eds Linda Bryder and Derek A. Dow(Auckland: Pyramid Press, 1995), 46-53
14. See also Anthea Hyslop and Barry Smith, 'Public Health Visions: The Public Health Movement before 1945' in Infectious Disease in Humans: Howard Florey Centenary Symposium, ed. B. Furnass(Canberra: Nature and Society Forum, 1998), 44
15. See Thomas Osborne, 'Of Health and Statecraft' in Foucault, Health and Medicine, eds Alan Petersen and Robin Bunton(London and New York: Routledge, 1997), 173-88
16. Alan Petersen and Deborah Lupton, The New Public Health(Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1996)
17. Michel Foucault, 'The Politics of Health in the Eighteenth Century' in The Foucault Reader, ed. P. Rabinow(New York: Pantheon, 1984)
18. Michel Foucault, 'Governmentality' in The Foucault Effect, eds G. Burchell, C. Gordon and P. Miller(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991)
19. Nikolas Rose, 'Medicine, History and the-Present' in Reassessing Foucault, eds Colin Jones and Roy Porter(London and New York: Routledge, 1998), 65
20. Mitchell Dean, Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society(London: Sage, 1999), 100
21. In assessing the influence and the implementation of the original Commonwealth immigration act many histories focus on the administrative device of the dictation test. Legal scholarship and policy reviews similarly draw attention to the dictation test. See, for example, Mary Crock, The Evolution of the Law and Policy Governing the Detention of Asylum-seekers in Australia', Migration Monitor, no. 31(1993): 8-13
22. See J. McMillan, 'The Constitutional Power of the Commonwealth in Public Health' in Public Health Law in Australia, ed. The Australian Institute of Law and Ethics(Canberra: The Institute, 1998)
23. Christopher Reynolds, Public Health Law in Australia(Leichardt: Federation Press, 1995)
24. Ian Bidmeade and Christopher Reynolds, Public Health Law in Australia: Its Current State and Future Directions(Canberra: Australian Government Publisher, 1997)
25. J.H.L. Cumpston, 'Report upon the Activities of the Commonwealth Department of Health from 1909-1930' typescript in Department of Health library. Section 3 'Review of Administrative Scope'
26. See Michael Roe, The Establishment of the Australian Department of Health: Its Background and Significance', Historical Studies 17(1976): 176-92
27. This idea is developed in Alison Bashford, 'Quarantine and the Imagining of the Australian Nation', Health 2, no. 4(1998): 387-402
28. Mary Crock and Daniel Miller, 'Mandatory Detention of Asylum Seekers in Australia', Human Rights Defender 9, no. 1(2000): 15-16
29. See, for example, J.W. Springthorpe, 'The Great White Plague' in Social Sins(Melbourne: The Church of England Social Questions Committee, 1912), 46
30. Suzanne Saunders, 'Isolation: The Development of Leprosy Prophylaxis in Australia', Aboriginal History 14(1990): 168-81
31. Alison Bashford and Maria Nugent, 'Leprosy and the Management of Race, Sexuality and Nation in Tropical Australia' in Contagion: Historical and Cultural Studies, eds Alison Bashford and Claire Hooker(London and New York: Routledge, 2001): 106-28
32. Warwick Anderson, 'Geography, Race and Nation: Remapping "Tropical' Australia', Historical Records of Australian Science 11(1997): 457-68
33. David Armstrong, 'Public Health Spaces and the Fabrication of Identity', Sociology 27(1993): 393-410
34. The US-Mexican border is very interesting to locate against the Australian history of border control. In many ways very different from Australian entry points, it has also been a border where 'race' and 'nation' have been similarly regulated through infectious disease mechanisms. See in particular Alexandra Minna Stern, 'Building, Boundaries and Blood: Medicalization and Nation-Building on the US-Mexico Border, 1910-1930'
35. For example: 'in addition to the quarantine station which necessarily should protect each of our great maritime cities, there should be established at the north-east of the continent at Thursday Island, or therabout, and also at the south-west-say at Port Albany-two first-class quarantine stations fully equipped, and at all times to be ready to cope with any plague-ship that would seek to pass either barrier'. Dr K.I. O'Doherty, 'Federal Quarantine', Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 6(1895): 836
36. J.H.L. Cumpston, 'The Protection of our Frontiers from Invasion by Disease', Australasian Medical Gazette(20 July 1909): 347
37. Report on Quarantine, NSW Legislative Assembly, Votes & Proceedings, 1883, p. 5
38. See also J.S.C. Elkington, 'Quarantine in Queensland', Australasian Medical Gazette(27 April 1912): 435
39. Cumpston, The Protection of our Frontiers', 347
40. Tsochronic Chart for Thursday Island' in F.F. McCallum, 'The Time Factor in Quarantine Practice', Health 5(1927): 46
41. See Alison Bashford, "Is White Australia Possible?" Race, Colonialism and Tropical Medicine', Ethnic and Racial Studies 23, no. 2(2000): 248-71
42. Raphael Cilento, incidentally, moved from race-interested tropical medicine to managing European refugee camps for the UN after Second World War, and involvement with health and refugee issues for then new World Health Organisation. See F. Gould Fisher, Raphael Cilento:' A Biography(St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1994)