Nonja Ivonne Peters

• PhD (distinction) UWA 2000
• Professor (Associate) at Curtin University

This article discusses variations in the experiences of Dutch identity and belonging to a music‐making group in the Dutch migrant community in Melbourne, Australia. It answers the research question “Which variations of ‘Dutch identity’ are there for the participants and how does music‐making relate to this?”. Feelings of identity and belonging are...

Abstract In March 1622, the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC), or in English, the United East-Indies Company vessel Leeuwinne (Dutch for "lioness" and pronounced "Laywin," I spell it "Leeuwin" in this article), happened upon the coast now known as Western Australia (WA) in the region where the Cape Leeuwin lighthouse, named in its honour, now...

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This chapter focuses on a set of three wall hangings, known as the Odyssey Quilts, that are held in the Power-House Museum in Sydney, Australia.1 They present creative visual narratives—made up of appliqued quilting pieces—portraying their creators’ recollections of their experiences of childhood, wartime, and migration. The quilts are the work of...

Australia is recognised as one of the world’s most culturally and ethnically diverse nations. Immigration has historically played an important role in the nation’s economic, social and cultural development. There is a pressing need to find innovative technological and archival approaches to deal with the challenge to digitally preserve Australia’s...

Migrants all over the world have left multiple traces in different countries, and this cultural heritage is of growing interest to researchers and to the migrant communities themselves. Cultural heritage institutions, however, have dwindling funds and resources to meet the demand for the heritage of immigrant communities to be protected. In this ar...

Australia is recognised as one of the world's most culturally and ethnically diverse nations. Immigration has historically played an important role in the nation's economic, social and cultural development. There is a pressing need to find innovative technological and archival approaches to deal with the challenge to digitally preserve Australia's...

The focus of this chapter is the state of the art of digitisation of cultural heritage in Australian archives and libraries from a comparative perspective. Globalisation, mobility and the new techniques that spin off from the digital age bring about new possibilities that stimulate and enhance our capacity to ask new questions about how we perceive...

This presentation is about asylum seeking, public opinion polls, the media, academics and pollsters. Betts (1988:106) notes that Polls and surveys show that asylum seekers, immigration, cultural pluralism and attitudes to newcomers are subjects on which intellectuals and non-intellectuals are divided.

Museum exhibition on the Japanese Bombing of Broome

Shortlisted for the WA Premier’s Literary Award

Migration to Western Australia from 1829 to the present

This article reflects on the mass influx of Dutch migrants into Australia after the Second World War from the vantage point of the now rapidly ageing Dutch. It compares their experience to that of their children who are also fast approaching retirement age. It locates Dutch Australians' adaptive strategies within the context of the historic, socio-...

This article explores immigrant entrepreneurship during the 20th century in Northbridge, the inner city of Perth, Western Australia. My interest in doing so was motivated by the research interest that draws scholars from around the world to this topic area: the desire to explain the distinctly cosmopolitan character of entrepreneurial revitalized i...

Dutch evacuees from the Netherlands East Indies rehabilitated in Western Australia from Japanese civilian internment camps and who had also to flee the extreme violence of the Indonesian revolution for Independence 1945-1946

Community Exhibition on being Dutch in Australia to celebrate the 400 years connection of the Dutch in Australia photographs, documents and artefacts

The History of the Dutch presence in Australia - maritime, military, migration and mercantile multiple authors

Front Cover Nonja Peters University of Western Australia Press, by arrangement with CCH Australia, 2006 - History - 422 pages 2nd Edition University of Western Australia Press 2006. The celebrations of the first 400 years of relations between The Commonwealth of Australia and The Kingdom of The Netherlands mark a very special and important event f...

Mary Besemeres, Translating One's Self, Peter Lang, Oxford, 2002, pp 295, pb, ISBN 3906766985.Richard Freadman, Shadow of Doubt: My Father and Myself, Bystander Press, Northcote, 2004, pp 288, pb $24.95, ISBN 0957797834.Robert Adamson, Inside Out: An Autobiography, Melbourne, Text, 2004, pp 342, hb $45.00, ISBN 1877008958.Philip Ayres, Mawson: A Li...

Exhibition was on display at the Western Australian Museum April and May 2003 Has also been shown at other venues - still available for loan

Traveling Exhibition around various venues in Western Australia with Art-on- the Move

Kloosterman, van der Leun and Rath assert they conceptualised the “mixed embeddedness” hypothesis to overcome the shortcomings characteristic of earlier theoretical models of immigrant business enterprise. This article assesses the relevance of this theoretical perspective to explaining immigrant entrepreneurship in a specific host setting with ref...

This paper is concerned with the years 1906 to 1960 when the Immigration and Information Bureau (currently called the Old Police Station) located adjacent to the E Shed Markets was the hub of immigration activity on Victoria Quay, Fremantle. It also examines the thirty years during which the Waiting Rooms next door were witness to the heart-rending...

Postwar migration to Western Australia from Britain, Western, Eastern and central Europe and the Baltic States Push and pull factor, the voyage across, the migration camps in Australia, finding work, building your own home and citizenship.

The paper explores the manner in which Dutch women, who left the Netherlands at various times during the postwar period, negotiated and carved out an 'identity' and satisfied their need for a sense of belonging in Australia.

Traveling exhibition on post-war immigration is now permanently on display at the Railway Museum in Northam WA. Launched at the Northam Multicultural festival in 2000.

A B S T R A C T This thesis makes a contribution to anthropological studies of immigrant entrepreneurship, race relations, international migration and identity. The basic premise underlying the study is that minority ethnicity both confers resources and provokes adversity, and that these encourage or increase entrepreneurship within some ethnic gr...

Museum exhibition on display postwar migration to Western Australia. Northam was host to two Department of Immigration Migrant Accommodation Centres: Holden from 1949 to 1966, Army Camp 1949 to 1952 On permanent display Northam Visitor Centre Grey Street Northam

Museum Exhibition: audiovisual, documents, photographs, artifacts and dioramas that tell the story (push and pull factors, the voyage across, migrant accommodation, resettlement, work, school, homes and citizenship of the movement of people to Western Australia after WWII. Migrants and Displaced Persons from western, southern, central and eastern E...

Abstract The increased incidence of anorexia nervosa in specific historical periods and in professions that emphasize thinness such as ballet dancing, fashion modelling and horse racing, are reasons to suspect the existence of an, as yet, unidentified, dynamic. This is reason enough to argue against the notion of a personal predisposition to anorex...

Museum exhibition - photographs, documents, artefacts displayed at various venues in Fremantle, Northam The opening attracted between 450-500 migrants and former displaced persons. It was the largest opening the WA Museum had to that date. Traces the migration of Europeans from Western, Southern, Eastern and cetral Europe and the Baltic States to W...