Displaced persons in Queensland: Stuart migrant camp

This article examines the lived experience and recent commemorative efforts relating to the experience of displaced prsons who were sent to Queensland in the post-war period. 170,000 displaced persons — predominantly Central and Eastern Europeans — arrived in Australia between 1947 and 1952. They were sent to reception and training centres upon their arrival before commencing a two-year indentured labour contract. Memorialisation of these camps tends to present them as the founding places of the migrant experience in Australia; however, there has been very little historical work on displaced persons in Queensland, or on the Queensland migrant camps — Wacol, Enoggera, Stuart and Cairns. This article focuses on recent commemorative attempts surrounding the Stuart migrant camp in order to argue that, in relation to displaced persons, family and community memories drive commemorative activities

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 refugees ; and eventually, in an effort to solve the population crisis, as potential workers and migrants . This article will describe the historical origin of the terms Displaced Persons refugees , political exiles and migrants - terms which were, and continue to be, relevant and problematic

No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison

Book review: Behrouz Boochani, No Friend but the Mountains (Picador: Sydney, 2018)

Ukraine’s fight for its identity is more than a century old – it is not about to stop

For more than a century, Ukrainian nationalism has proved that it has not - and will not - disappear. This means that as well as refugee support the Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations is also calling for concrete political assistance from Australia. This includes support for Ukrainian membership in the European Union, a #NoFlyZone over Ukraine and for business leaders to divest from Russia

Cossack Identities: From Russian Émigrés and Anti-Soviet Collaborators to Displaced Persons

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 paper traces the traumatic (and opportunistic) migration trajectory of one Cossack family, who escaped forced repatriations to become ‘New Australians’

Nader Shah and Persian Naval Expansion in the Persian Gulf, 1700-1747

Copyright Cambridge University. For permissions see http://www.cambridge.org/about-us/rights-permissionsThe purpose of this article is to relate a remarkable episode involving Nader Shah’s navy and to connect it directly to the wider aims and projects of his regime (notably his ambitions in India), and the central events of his reign. In this way his Persian Gulf policy may emerge not as the oddity it might at first appear, but rather as a consistent element in a coherent larger whole.Cambridge Ope

PENGATURAN DALAM HUKUM INTERNASIONAL MENGENAI PENGUNGSI AKIBAT PERUBAHAN IKLIM YANG MELINTASI BATAS INTERNASIONAL (ENVIRONMENTAL REFUGEE)

Perubahan pada lingkungan hidup dewasa ini merupakan fenomena alamyang tidak dapat dihindari di setiap negara di dunia. Dampak-dampak dariperubahan lingkungan hidup dapat dirasakan dalam kehidupan sehari-hari hinggamengancam menenggelamkan suatu negara. Permasalahan yang timbul adalahketika negara tersebut rusak atau sudah tidak dapat ditinggali (inhabitant) akanmemaksa penduduk negara tersebut untuk mengungsi ke tempat atau negara yanglebih aman. Adanya legal vacuum menyebabkan status dan perlindungan orangorangtersebut masih belum jelas dalam Hukum Internasional.Kata Kunci : Pengungsi, Perubahan Pada Lingkungan Hidup, EnviromentalRefugee

The Checklist of green algae of the Iranian costal lines of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman

In this checklist 62 species of marine green algae (Chlorophyta) are reported from Iranian coastal lines of Persian Gulf and Oman Gulf. This list represents a summary of 9 scietific papers published over a period of 159 years. The scientific name of the taxa are checked by www.algaebase.org designed by M. Guiry. Total number of Iranian green algae from 23 species in Basson checklist and from 42 species for all areas of the Persian Gulf are increased to 62 species in present chechlist. Introduction The first reports on marine algae of the Persian Gulf was published in 1845 by Endlicher and Diesing (1845). In this study six species of brown and red algae were reported from Kharg and Kish islands in south of Iran. Børgesen (1939) introduced 77 species of marine algae from the Iranian seashores of Persian Gulf and 23 species from Arabian regions of the area. From 22 green species of this list 19 species belonged to Iranian area. Nizamudin and Gessner (1970) studied the specimens which had been collected in Indian Ocean expedition. In their report 69 species were introduced that 12 species of them were green algae which 4 species were collected from Iranian seashores. Sohrabipour and Rabiei (1996 Arabian regions of the Persian Gulf also were studied by Persian Gulf and Oman Gulf green algae of Iranian coasts IRAN. JOURN. BOT. 13 (2), 2007 Basson (1992) published a checklist of marine algae of Persian Gulf that in which he listed 207 species of marine algae based on previous publications on the marine algae of Persian Gulf. 41 species of Basson checklist belonged to green algae which 23 of them were from Iranian coastal lines. In the recent studies on marine algae of Persian Gulf especially in Iranian regions many species of green algae newly recorded from this area. During a study on algal flora of Chabahar province in southeast of Iran (Oman Gulf) many species of the marine algae were collected and identified from this area. In present list 60 species of green algae are listed from the Iranian coastal lines of Persian Gulf and Oman Gulf. Total list of green algae of the area includes previous published species and 4 new reports in this article. The * sighn are aded to Basson checklist (1992) and ** sighn are new records for Iranian coastal lines of Persian Gulf and Oman Gulf. CHOLOROPYTA ULVACEAE CLADOPHORACEAE Chaetomorpha aerea (Dillwyn) Kützing (4, 7, 15, 1

Syntactic and Semantic Features of Persian Proper Names: A gender-based study

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Self-reported ill health in male UK Gulf War veterans: a retrospective cohort study

BACKGROUND: Forces deployed to the first Gulf War report more ill health than veterans who did not serve there. Many studies of post-Gulf morbidity are based on relatively small sample sizes and selection bias is often a concern. In a setting where selection bias relating to the ill health of veterans may be reduced, we: i) examined self-reported adult ill health in a large sample of male UK Gulf War veterans and a demographically similar non-deployed comparison group; and ii) explored self-reported ill health among veterans who believed that they had Gulf War syndrome. METHODS: This study uses data from a retrospective cohort study of reproduction and child health in which a validated postal questionnaire was sent to all UK Gulf War veterans (GWV) and a comparison cohort of Armed Service personnel who were not deployed to the Gulf (NGWV). The cohort for analysis comprises 42,818 males who responded to the questionnaire. RESULTS: We confirmed that GWV report higher rates of general ill health. GWV were significantly more likely to have reported at least one new medical symptom or disease since 1990 than NGWV (61% versus 37%, OR 2.7, 95% CI 2.5–2.8). They were also more likely to report higher numbers of symptoms. The strongest associations were for mood swings (OR 20.9, 95%CI 16.2–27.0), memory loss/lack of concentration (OR 19.6, 95% CI 15.5–24.8), night sweats (OR 9.9, 95% CI 6.5–15.2), general fatigue (OR 9.6, 95% CI 8.3–11.1) and sexual dysfunction (OR 4.6, 95%CI 3.2–6.6). 6% of GWV believed they had Gulf War syndrome (GWS), and this was associated with the highest symptom reporting. CONCLUSIONS: Increased levels of reported ill health among GWV were confirmed. This study was the first to use a questionnaire which did not focus specifically on the veterans' symptoms themselves. Nevertheless, the results are consistent with those of other studies of post-Gulf war illness and thus strengthen overall findings in this area of research. Further examination of the mechanisms underlying the reporting of ill health is required