Indian Migration to New Zealand in the 1920s

2018 ◽  
pp. 129-161
Author(s):  
Michael Roche ◽  
Sita Venkateswar
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
World War I ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
World War ◽  
Immigration Restriction ◽  
Portrait Photographs ◽  
Indian Immigration ◽  
Selection Of

Racist attitudes against Indians appeared in New Zealand from the 1890s resulting in the Immigration Restriction Amendment Act of 1920. This Act required potential Indian migrants to provide photographs and other details for certificates of registration, enabling them to re-enter the Dominion within a three-year period. Drawing on a selection of immigration files, this chapter offers a preliminary exploration of mobility patterns of early Indian migrants to New Zealand as well as an interpretation of how they represented themselves based on the portrait photographs they provided for their registration certificates. The chapter argues that this piece of legislation intending to restrict Indian immigration can now be interrogated to reveal more about the first generation of post–World War I Indian migrants to New Zealand.

Tram, mobilitŕ e crescita urbana in Spagna, 1900-1936

STORIA URBANA ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 21-48
Author(s):  
Banales José Luis Onyňn
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
World War ◽  
Unskilled Workers ◽  
Urban Pattern ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

- The article focuses on the relationship between tramway networks and urban structure in Spain during the period 1900-1936. It states that this relationship should be studied after considering the use of transport and the mobility patterns of different classes, specially the working class. Once these factors have been studied it is possible to assert the impact of the tramway netmark on urban growth. The impact of the tramways on major Spanish cities did not take the form of a transport revolution that would radically changed the urban pattern. Tramways did not direct urban growth until use of tramway lines by the working class became general. This did not happen until World War I. Since then, skilled and some unskilled workers did change their mobility patterns and tramway use experienced a cycle of growth that continued until the late 1950s.

Reclaiming the Past, Building a Future: Māori Identity in the Plays of Hone Kouka

2001 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
World War I ◽  
The Other ◽  
World War ◽  
The Past ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
The Future ◽  
The 1960S

Hone Kouka's historical plays Nga Tangata Toa and Waiora, created and produced in Aotearoa/New Zealand, one set in the immediate aftermath of World War I, and the other during the great Māori urban migrations of the 1960s, provide fresh insights into the way in which individual Māori responded to the tremendous social disruptions they experienced during the twentieth century. Much like the Māori orator who prefaces his formal interactions with a statement of his whakapapa (genealogy), Kouka reassembles the bones of both his ancestors, and those of other Māori, by demonstrating how the present is constructed by the past, offering a view of contemporary Māori identity that is traditional and modern, rural and urban, respectful of the past and open to the future.

A Poetics of Statelessness: Avraham Ben Yitzhak after World War I

Naharaim ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maya Barzilai
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
World War ◽  
Hebrew Poetry ◽  
Post War ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractAfter World War I, Avraham Ben Yitzhak had all but ceased to publish the modernist Hebrew poetry for which he is famous. He continued, however, to compose literary drafts in German, Hebrew, and Yiddish well into the mid-1920s. This essay interprets a selection of these unpublished writings in the context of his criticism of wartime technology and nationalist fervor. Ben Yitzhak’s early poetics of dissolution and decadence underwent further radicalization in the post-war years; experimenting anew with expressionist and cinematic styles, he cast apocalyptic images of a dying world abandoned by God and characterized above all by the mass statelessness of its denizens.

Physical anthropology and ethnogenesis in Bulgaria, 1878-1944

Focaal ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 (58) ◽  
pp. 47-62
Author(s):  
Christian Promitzer
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Group Analysis ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Physical Anthropology ◽  
World War ◽  
Racial Liberalism ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
New Generation

This article engages with the commonly encountered claim that Bulgarian physical anthropology "features a long, fruitful, and honorable existence," by discussing Bulgarian anthropology's contribution to the controversial issue of ethnogenesis. With the Russian influence waning from the mid-1880s on, the pioneers of Bulgarian anthropology were largely influenced by the German example. But the first generation of Bulgarian anthropologists' tradition of "racial liberalism" (Benoit Massin) was lost after World War I. On the eve of World War II a debate on racism raged among Bulgarian intellectuals. By the time blood group analysis had joined anthropometrics, adherents of a closer collaboration with the Third Reich used it to argue for the Bulgarian nation's non-Slavic origins. In 1938 they even disrupted a lecture given by the biologist Metodiy Popov when he wanted to stress the Bulgarians' ethnic relationship with the other Slavic nations, and to repudiate the idea of a hierarchy of races. During the Socialist period a new generation of anthropologists went on to investigate the Bulgarian ethnogenesis using the term "race", although this clearly contravened the 1950 UNESCO statement on the race question.

scholarly journals REVIEW: Opening shot over the parapet

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 239
Author(s):  
Peter Hoar
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
World War I ◽  
General Public ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
World War ◽  
Early Publication ◽  
Western Front ◽  
Big Push ◽  
The Great War

Book review of: The great adventure ends: New Zealand and France on the Western Front, edited by Nathalie Phillippe, Chris Puglsey, John Crawford & Matthias Strohn, Christchurch: John Douglas Publishing, 2013. 424 pp. ISBN 9780987666581This volume is another shot in the bombardment of books about the Great War that marks the 2014 centenary of the start of the ‘war to end all wars’. This literary big push includes novels, graphic novels, histories, biographies, memoirs and diaries written for specialists and the general public. An early publication to pop over the parapet, this collection offers a diverse set of articles that highlight some not so well-known aspects of New Zealand’s involvement on the Western Front during the 1914-18 war. The varied articles in The Great Adventure Ends reflect both the book’s origins in a conference and the variety of ways in which World War I is written about.

Reorienting Migrant Marketplaces in le due Americhe during the Interwar Years

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Zanoni
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War I ◽  
South America ◽  
Consumer Goods ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Export Market ◽  
World War ◽  
Economic Expansion ◽  
Immigration Restriction ◽  
Predominately Female

Chapters Five and Six focus on the interwar years, when a worldwide depression, intensifying restrictions against mobile people and products, and rising nationalisms changed the global geography of migrant marketplace connections. After World War I, U.S. economic expansion in South America and U.S. immigration restriction, which redirected Italians to Argentina, intensified North-South links between Italians in New York and Buenos Aires. Migrants in Buenos Aires expressed concern that the growing presence of U.S. capital and consumer goods threatened the Italian export market. After having targeted Italians as consumers in New York, U.S. food corporations like Armour and Company began targeting Italians in Buenos Aires as well. Meanwhile they capitalized on links between consumption and femininity made during the war to depict migrant marketplaces as predominately female.

‘Unmistakeable Sauerkrauts’: Local Perceptions of Itinerant German Musicians in New Zealand, 1850–1920

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-49
Author(s):  
Samantha Owens
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
World War I ◽  
World War ◽  
Local Perceptions ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
School Sports ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Street Corner ◽  
First World

Although largely forgotten today, bands of German musicians (generally from the Westpfalz region) were regular visitors to New Zealand’s shores from the 1850s up until the outbreak of World War I, making them among the earliest professional European musical ensembles to be heard in the country. Plying their trade on the streets and in other public spaces, German bands were also routinely hired to perform for garden parties, school sports days, dances and boat trips, as well as on countless other occasions. Yet despite their apparent popularity, contemporary comment published in newspapers of the day demonstrates that reactions to their performances were decidedly mixed. While some members of the public clearly enjoyed the contribution German bands made to local musical life, others were less than delighted by their (often noisy) presence. In 1893, for example, one Wellington resident complained that ‘a German Band … may be heard braying at every street corner at all hours of the day and night’, while noting also that ‘It is the genuine article, all the performers being wanderers from the “Vaterland”, unmistakeable “sauerkrauts”’ Within weeks of the outbreak of World War I, ten members of a German band had been arrested in Auckland and taken to Somes Island in Wellington harbour, where they were interned for the duration of the conflict. This article examines the New Zealand public’s changing perceptions of this particular brand of street musician from colonial times until shortly after the end of the First World War.

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