Jayne Persian
Biographic Data
| ID | 695375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jayne Persian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jayne |
| FAMILY NAME | Persian |
| SIGNATURE | PERSIAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0651-4099 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Revisiting Helen Demidenko’s The Hand That Signed the Paper
This article revisits the cultural storm created by the 1994 publication of Helen Demidenko’s novel, The Hand That Signed the Paper. Purporting to be quasi-autobiographical, written by a young member of the Ukrainian diaspora, the novel used family oral histories to present an authentic perpetrator perspective. After winning prestigious national awards, Demidenko was unmasked as an Anglo-Australian, Helen Darville. This article argues that critic…
Complicit Testimonies in the Australian Investigative Archive
A Special Investigations Unit (SIU) in Australia was established in 1987 to find evidence of war crimes as defined in the recently amended War Crimes Act, to prosecute perpetrators of war crimes committed during the Second World War. These alleged war criminals were predominantly former Central and Eastern European displaced persons (DPs) who had arrived in Australia in the post-war period, many of them complicit in the Holocaust. This late attem…
A Bloody Migrant Who Thinks He Can Run a Union
Jerzy Bielski, a Polish displaced person (DP) who resettled in Australia in 1949, was the first post-war migrant to work for an Australian trade union. He was recruited in 1951 by the Australian Workers Union (AWU) as a migrant unionist and, some years later, established his own migrant trade union: the New Citizens Council. The council faced heavy criticism from within the trade union movement, including by right-wing DPs who, acting as Cold War…
Fascists in Exile
Fascists in Exile tells the extraordinary story of the war criminals, collaborators and fascist ultranationalists who were resettled in Australia by the International Refugee Organisation between 1947 and 1952. It explores the far-right backgrounds and continuing political activism of these displaced persons in Australia, adding to our knowledge of the development of Australian anti-communism in the 1950s. These individuals argued that they had b…
Cruel Care
Cruel Care: A History of Children at Our Borders." Australian Historical Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Wogs as work
In post-war Australia, the word ‘wog’ was used to describe the southern Europeans who dominated the mass migration schemes, particularly Italians and Greeks. The evolution of ‘wog’ from slur to celebration peaked in the 1990s, led by second-generation migrant comedians. This paper sets out the history of this evolution and the societal context in which ‘wog’ humour was invented in a uniquely ‘Australian’ way. Many of the cultural texts that make …
Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia
Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia provides a history of fascist movements and anti-fascist resistance in Australia over the past century. In recent years, the far right has become a resurgent force across the globe, resulting in populist parties securing electoral victories, social movements organising on the streets, and acts of right-wing terrorism. Australia has not been immune to this. However, this is not merely a recent phe…
European Post-War Migrants and Indigenous Australians
This article will outline a series of historical fragments which represent encounters between the early post World War Two European migrants and indigenous peoples. While both displaced persons and Indigenous peoples have been studied by historians as the objects of assimilationist policy, any relationship between these two groups has been largely ignored. This article will thus explore the connection between these disparate groups, in the contex…
The Dirty Vat’
At the end of World War II, European residents of Shanghai included Jewish displaced persons and ‘White’ émigrés. While the Jewish refugees were initially viewed by Australia as a humanitarian crisis, they then became a controversial sideshow to a planned mass resettlement of displaced persons from Europe. This article contextualises the actual and proposed Jewish and Russian migration from Shanghai with regard to Australian attitudes towards pos…
Histories of Controversy
Histories of Controversy: Bonegilla Migrant Centre." Australian Historical Studies, 49(2), pp. 281–282
Cossack Identities
Cossack displaced persons who were re-settled in Australia as part of the post-war International Refugee Organisation scheme had already survived several turbulent eras. Anti-Bolshevik Cossacks refashioned their identities in the post-Civil War period as Russian émigrés and then, during the Second World War, as anti-Soviet collaborators of the Germany Army. At war’s end these Cossacks were rounded up by the British and handed to the Soviets. This…
A timely history
In 2010, Klaus Neumann wrote an article for the Australian Policy and History Network, criticising the lack of attention given in Australian historiography to refugee and asylum seeker issues. He i
Boat People”
[Introduction]: Immigration, and particularly what to do about refugees and 'asylum seekers', is a hotbutton topic in Australian politics, encapsulated by the phrase 'stop the boats'. What is missing from the polemic is a sense of the long history of various types of immigration to this country. As an island nation, everyone from the First Peoples onwards arrived by boat right up until ships carrying the Ten Pound Poms docked in the 1960s. Some a…
Chifley liked them Blond’
170,000 ‘displaced persons’ (DPs) — predominantly Central and Eastern Europeans—arrived in Australia between 1947 and 1952 as refugees sponsored by the International Refugee Organization (IRO). This article traces the political evolution of the decision by Arthur Calwell’s new Department of Immigration not only to accept, but to actively recruit, displaced persons, as well as examining the Department’s racial and political standards of acceptabil…
Displaced Persons and the Politics of International Categorisation(s)
Between 1947 and 1952 170,000 Displaced Persons (DPs) arrived in Australia as International Refugee Organisation (IRO)‐sponsored refugees. This article sets out the international historical and political context for the migration of DPs to Australia, and interrogates the “bureaucratic labelling” inherent in the category “Displaced Persons”. The post‐war refugees were presented internationally as “Displaced Persons”, “refugees”, “political refugee…
Bonegilla
Bonegilla was the longest-lived post-war migrant camp, as well as the largest. Between 1947 and 1971 around 320 000 migrants passed through. Relinquished by the Army in the late 1990s, Bonegilla is now a heritage-listed commemorative site dubbed ‘The Bonegilla Migrant Experience’, and is widely referred to as the birthplace of Australian multiculturalism. The story of how this came about raises questions not only as to whether Bonegilla is a reac…
Bonegilla
Bonegilla was the longest-lived post-war migrant camp, as well as the largest. Between 1947 and 1971 around 320 000 migrants passed through. Relinquished by the Army in the late 1990s, Bonegilla is now a heritage-listed commemorative site dubbed ‘The Bonegilla Migrant Experience’, and is widely referred to as the birthplace of Australian multiculturalism. The story of how this came about raises questions not only as to whether Bonegilla is a reac…
European Post-War Migrants and Indigenous Australians
This article will outline a series of historical fragments which represent encounters between the early post World War Two European migrants and indigenous peoples. While both displaced persons and Indigenous peoples have been studied by historians as the objects of assimilationist policy, any relationship between these two groups has been largely ignored. This article will thus explore the connection between these disparate groups, in the contex…
The Dirty Vat’
At the end of World War II, European residents of Shanghai included Jewish displaced persons and ‘White’ émigrés. While the Jewish refugees were initially viewed by Australia as a humanitarian crisis, they then became a controversial sideshow to a planned mass resettlement of displaced persons from Europe. This article contextualises the actual and proposed Jewish and Russian migration from Shanghai with regard to Australian attitudes towards pos…
Chifley liked them Blond’
170,000 ‘displaced persons’ (DPs) — predominantly Central and Eastern Europeans—arrived in Australia between 1947 and 1952 as refugees sponsored by the International Refugee Organization (IRO). This article traces the political evolution of the decision by Arthur Calwell’s new Department of Immigration not only to accept, but to actively recruit, displaced persons, as well as examining the Department’s racial and political standards of acceptabil…
Displaced Persons and the Politics of International Categorisation(s)
Between 1947 and 1952 170,000 Displaced Persons (DPs) arrived in Australia as International Refugee Organisation (IRO)‐sponsored refugees. This article sets out the international historical and political context for the migration of DPs to Australia, and interrogates the “bureaucratic labelling” inherent in the category “Displaced Persons”. The post‐war refugees were presented internationally as “Displaced Persons”, “refugees”, “political refugee…
Bonegilla
Bonegilla was the longest-lived post-war migrant camp, as well as the largest. Between 1947 and 1971 around 320 000 migrants passed through. Relinquished by the Army in the late 1990s, Bonegilla is now a heritage-listed commemorative site dubbed ‘The Bonegilla Migrant Experience’, and is widely referred to as the birthplace of Australian multiculturalism. The story of how this came about raises questions not only as to whether Bonegilla is a reac…
Chifley liked them Blond’
170,000 ‘displaced persons’ (DPs) — predominantly Central and Eastern Europeans—arrived in Australia between 1947 and 1952 as refugees sponsored by the International Refugee Organization (IRO). This article traces the political evolution of the decision by Arthur Calwell’s new Department of Immigration not only to accept, but to actively recruit, displaced persons, as well as examining the Department’s racial and political standards of acceptabil…
A timely history
In 2010, Klaus Neumann wrote an article for the Australian Policy and History Network, criticising the lack of attention given in Australian historiography to refugee and asylum seeker issues. He i
Boat People”
[Introduction]: Immigration, and particularly what to do about refugees and 'asylum seekers', is a hotbutton topic in Australian politics, encapsulated by the phrase 'stop the boats'. What is missing from the polemic is a sense of the long history of various types of immigration to this country. As an island nation, everyone from the First Peoples onwards arrived by boat right up until ships carrying the Ten Pound Poms docked in the 1960s. Some a…
Histories of Controversy
Histories of Controversy: Bonegilla Migrant Centre." Australian Historical Studies, 49(2), pp. 281–282
Cossack Identities
Cossack displaced persons who were re-settled in Australia as part of the post-war International Refugee Organisation scheme had already survived several turbulent eras. Anti-Bolshevik Cossacks refashioned their identities in the post-Civil War period as Russian émigrés and then, during the Second World War, as anti-Soviet collaborators of the Germany Army. At war’s end these Cossacks were rounded up by the British and handed to the Soviets. This…
The Dirty Vat’
At the end of World War II, European residents of Shanghai included Jewish displaced persons and ‘White’ émigrés. While the Jewish refugees were initially viewed by Australia as a humanitarian crisis, they then became a controversial sideshow to a planned mass resettlement of displaced persons from Europe. This article contextualises the actual and proposed Jewish and Russian migration from Shanghai with regard to Australian attitudes towards pos…
European Post-War Migrants and Indigenous Australians
This article will outline a series of historical fragments which represent encounters between the early post World War Two European migrants and indigenous peoples. While both displaced persons and Indigenous peoples have been studied by historians as the objects of assimilationist policy, any relationship between these two groups has been largely ignored. This article will thus explore the connection between these disparate groups, in the contex…
Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia
Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia provides a history of fascist movements and anti-fascist resistance in Australia over the past century. In recent years, the far right has become a resurgent force across the globe, resulting in populist parties securing electoral victories, social movements organising on the streets, and acts of right-wing terrorism. Australia has not been immune to this. However, this is not merely a recent phe…
Fascists in Exile
Fascists in Exile tells the extraordinary story of the war criminals, collaborators and fascist ultranationalists who were resettled in Australia by the International Refugee Organisation between 1947 and 1952. It explores the far-right backgrounds and continuing political activism of these displaced persons in Australia, adding to our knowledge of the development of Australian anti-communism in the 1950s. These individuals argued that they had b…
Cruel Care
Cruel Care: A History of Children at Our Borders." Australian Historical Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Wogs as work
In post-war Australia, the word ‘wog’ was used to describe the southern Europeans who dominated the mass migration schemes, particularly Italians and Greeks. The evolution of ‘wog’ from slur to celebration peaked in the 1990s, led by second-generation migrant comedians. This paper sets out the history of this evolution and the societal context in which ‘wog’ humour was invented in a uniquely ‘Australian’ way. Many of the cultural texts that make …
A Bloody Migrant Who Thinks He Can Run a Union
Jerzy Bielski, a Polish displaced person (DP) who resettled in Australia in 1949, was the first post-war migrant to work for an Australian trade union. He was recruited in 1951 by the Australian Workers Union (AWU) as a migrant unionist and, some years later, established his own migrant trade union: the New Citizens Council. The council faced heavy criticism from within the trade union movement, including by right-wing DPs who, acting as Cold War…
Complicit Testimonies in the Australian Investigative Archive
A Special Investigations Unit (SIU) in Australia was established in 1987 to find evidence of war crimes as defined in the recently amended War Crimes Act, to prosecute perpetrators of war crimes committed during the Second World War. These alleged war criminals were predominantly former Central and Eastern European displaced persons (DPs) who had arrived in Australia in the post-war period, many of them complicit in the Holocaust. This late attem…
Revisiting Helen Demidenko’s The Hand That Signed the Paper
This article revisits the cultural storm created by the 1994 publication of Helen Demidenko’s novel, The Hand That Signed the Paper. Purporting to be quasi-autobiographical, written by a young member of the Ukrainian diaspora, the novel used family oral histories to present an authentic perpetrator perspective. After winning prestigious national awards, Demidenko was unmasked as an Anglo-Australian, Helen Darville. This article argues that critic…
History (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · History (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Australian History and Society (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)