Research

Books & Book Chapters

Moustafine, Mara. ‘From Cosmopolitan Harbin to Multicultural Australia: My Harbin Journey’. Collected Works On 2017 International Conference Of Former Foreign Residents in Harbin (Harbin Publishing House, 2019).

Moustafine, Mara. Harbin Dang’an (The Harbin Files). Translated by Li Yao, 2nd Edition (Beijing: Zhonghua Book Company, 2018).

Persian, Jayne. ‘Oral Histories of Displaced Persons: What For? The Story Like Mine’s Plenty Now’. Remembering Migration: Oral Histories and Heritage in Australia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Balint, Ruth. Before Australia: Historicising Russian Migration via China after World War IIAustralian Historical Studies, 50:1 (2019).

Balint, Ruth [and Zora Simic]. State of the Field Review Essay: Histories of Migrants and Refugees in Australia. Australian Historical Studies, 49:3 (2018).

Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Russians in the Jungle: Tubabao as a Way Station for Refugees from China to Australia, 1949. History Australia, 16:4 (2019).

Fitzpatrick, Sheila & Justine Greenwood. Anti-Communism in Australian Immigration Policies 1947-54: The Case of Russian/Soviet Displaced Persons from Europe and White Russians from ChinaAustralian Historical Studies, 50:1 (2019).

Greenwood, Justine. Counting ‘China’ Russians: Building a Dataset of Russian Migration from China to Australia, 1946–54. Australian Historical Studies, forthcoming (2021).

Persian, Jayne. Cossack Identities: From Russian Emigres and Anti-Soviet Collaborators to Displaced Persons. Immigrants & Minorities, 36:2 (2018).

Persian, Jayne. ‘The Dirty Vat’: European Migration to Australia from Shanghai, 1946-47Australian Historical Studies, 50:1 (2019).

Seminar/Conference Papers

Balint, Ruth. China Russians and the Problem of Defining Who is a Refugee. University of Sydney (2019).

Balint, Ruth. The Politics of the Displaced Family in the Refugee Regime of Postwar Europe. Beyond Camps and Forced Labour, Birkbeck, University of London (2018).

Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Russians, White & Red: A Story of Postwar Immigration to Australia. History of Wednesday, University of Sydney (2019).

Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Solving a European Refugee Problem by Accident: How post-1917 Russian Emigres became Beneficiaries of International Resettlement after the Second World War. Keynote, Australasian Association for European History (2019).

Fizpatrick, Sheila. Fascism, Boy Scouts and ‘China’ Russians. Australian Historical Association – AHA (2019).

Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Migration of ‘White’ Russians and Russian Jews to Australia, 1945-1957. Jewish Research Centre, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (2018).

Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Who is a Russian? Problems of Identification and Quantification of Australian Postwar ‘Russian’ Immigration. University of Sydney (2019).

Fitzpatrick, Sheila, and Justine Greenwood. Anti-Communism in Australian Immigration Policy, 1947-54: The Russian/Soviet Case. AHA (2018).

Greenwood, Justine. Counting ‘China’ Russians: Creating a Database of Australian Postwar Russian Immigration. University of Sydney (2019).

Moustafine, Mara. Manchurian Candidates: Cold War Dilemmas for Australian Migration Authorities. University of Sydney (2019).

Moustafine, Mara. Russians and Jews in China: the Harbin aspect 1898 -1960. Jewish Research  Centre, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (2018).

Moustafine, Mara. From Cosmopolitan Harbin to Multicultural Australia: My Harbin Journey. Keynote, First International Conference of Former Foreign Residents of Harbin (2017).

Persian, Jayne. ‘The Reverend Fascist’: Harbin, Brisbane and Postwar Immigration to Australia. University of Sydney (2019).

Persian, Jayne. The Transnational Russian Right: Captive Nations. AHA (2019).

Persian, Jayne. Emigre Fascists in the Antipodes. Anti-Communism in the Twentieth Century: An International Historical Perspective. Queen’s University, Belfast (2019).

Persian, Jayne. ‘A Most Unsavoury Reputation’: Russian Refugees in China. AHA (2018).

Persian, Jayne. ‘Jews’ Ship, Due Today, Needs Food’: The Story of the Hwa Lien. AHA (2017).

Wolff, David. Russian Collective Biography on the Way from China to Australia: Cold War Inflections. University of Sydney (2019).

Roundtable on ‘Life Histories’: Ruth Balint, Justine Greenwood, Sheila Fitzpatrick, Mara Moustafine, Jayne Persian, [and Andrew Jakubowicz], Australian Studies Centre, Harbin Institute of Technology (2018).

Public Engagement

Moustafine, Mara. The Ties that Bind: Jews, Chinese and Harbin’s Cosmopolitan History. Keynote speech at NSW Jewish Board of Deputies Jewish Chinese Friendship Celebration (2018).

Persian, Jayne. Russian-Australians from China: A New History of Harbin Russians. Russian Heritage Week in Brisbane, Little Russian Club (2018).

Persian, Jayne. The White Australia Policy, Arthur Calwell and Immigration via the China Route. Australia China Relations Institute Podcast, University of Technology Sydney (2017).