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Stopping them Using Our Boats

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Controlling entry to an island continent proved more complex than the Immigration Restriction Act, 1901 framers imagined. Chinese people had been coming to Australia in numbers since the 1850s and by 1901 had substantial community, family, and economic links with their Pearl River Delta villages, around the colonies and with Hong Kong and Shanghai. Resistance was fought out on the boats themselves; musters were held, documents examined, searches made, and dictation tests administered. Secrecy, fraud, informers, and harassment reduced but did not eliminate communities while also causing governments much embarrassment before this first attempt at halting boat people was abandoned.

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  • Michael Williams, 2021. "Stopping them Using Our Boats," Australian Economic History Review, Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 61(1), pages 64-79, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ozechr:v:61:y:2021:i:1:p:64-79
    DOI: 10.1111/aehr.12207
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