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dc.contributor.authorFinnane, Mark
dc.contributor.editorSophie Couchman Kate Bagnall (Guest Editors) Liu Hong (Chief Editor)
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T11:21:09Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T11:21:09Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.date.modified2014-05-15T21:48:02Z
dc.identifier.issn17930391
dc.identifier.doi10.1163/17932548-12341259
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/59114
dc.description.abstractThe 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.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherBrill
dc.publisher.placeNetherlands
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom193
dc.relation.ispartofpageto211
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Chinese Overseas
dc.relation.ispartofvolume9
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHuman society
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLaw and society and socio-legal research
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLanguage, communication and culture
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistory, heritage and archaeology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchAsian history
dc.subject.fieldofresearchAustralian history
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode44
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode480405
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode47
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode43
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode430301
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode430302
dc.titleLaw as Politics: Chinese Litigants in Australian Colonial Courts
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, 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.issued2013
gro.hasfulltextFull Text
gro.griffith.authorFinnane, Mark J.


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