dc.contributor.author | Finnane, Mark | |
dc.contributor.editor | Sophie Couchman Kate Bagnall (Guest Editors) Liu Hong (Chief Editor) | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-03T11:21:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-05-03T11:21:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.date.modified | 2014-05-15T21:48:02Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 17930391 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1163/17932548-12341259 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/59114 | |
dc.description.abstract | The recent historiography of Chinese in Australia has emphasised their vigorous formation of a local identity and community even in the face of recurrent and expanding threats of exclusion from colonial life. In their ready embrace of legal remedies to redress what they saw as discrimination or other harms, the Chinese were exemplar colonial settlers who looked to the law to protect them. In colonial appeal courts, Chinese litigants challenged migration controls, contested convictions under opium restriction and gambling laws, sought equitable outcomes in property inheritance and challenged exclusionary regulation under the Factory Acts. In contrast to another kind of history of the Chinese in Australian law, as defendants in criminal prosecution, this article draws attention to the Chinese engagement in legal remedies as an assertion of their entitlement to recognition and fair play. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.description.publicationstatus | Yes | |
dc.format.extent | 538632 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Brill | |
dc.publisher.place | Netherlands | |
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublication | N | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 193 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 211 | |
dc.relation.ispartofissue | 2 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Journal of Chinese Overseas | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 9 | |
dc.rights.retention | Y | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Human society | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Law and society and socio-legal research | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Language, communication and culture | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | History, heritage and archaeology | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Asian history | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Australian history | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 44 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 480405 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 47 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 43 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 430301 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 430302 | |
dc.title | Law as Politics: Chinese Litigants in Australian Colonial Courts | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
gro.faculty | Arts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences | |
gro.rights.copyright | © 2013 Brill Academic Publishers. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal website for access to the definitive, published version. | |
gro.date.issued | 2013 | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Finnane, Mark J. | |