History, Historians and the Immigration Debate

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).

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.