Chinese Australian Women in White Australia: Utilising Available Sources to Overcome the Challenge of “Invisibility”
Chinese Australian Women in White Australia: Utilising Available Sources to Overcome the Challenge of “Invisibility”
Chinese Australian women are largely absent from scholarly accounts of Chinese Australian migration and settlement in the White Australia Policy period. This invisibility in research has been perpetuated by studies that emphasise the sex imbalance of the Chinese Australian population at the time, focus on male spheres of influence and activity, and utilise “traditional” historical sources that generally overlook the lives of women. Despite their relatively low numbers compared to their male coun