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Dr Nonja Peters

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    • Role:
    • Senior Lecturer
    • Department:
    • Curtin Sustainability Policy Institute
    • Location:
    • 2
    • Telephone:
    • +61 8 9266 9030
Nonja Peters was awarded a Curtin Fellowship in 2005.  Earlier, in 2002 as founding Director of Curtin's Migration, Ethnicity, Refugees and Citizenship Research Unit (MERC) she undertook research, books, documentaries, exhibitions, conferences and consultancies that address human rights, refugees, democracy, racism and border tension issues.

Since 2005 her research focus has been the preservation of Dutch Australians' cultural heritage. She is curator of travelling and permanent exhibitions on migration at the Fremantle History Museum and Northam Visitor Centre.

 

Currently she is:
1) editing a book on the WA Dutch;
2) a publication on ex POW child evacuees from the Netherlands East Indies rehabilitated at Fairbridge Village Inc 1945/6;
3) and rewriting her PhD on immigrant entrepreneurs.

Publications

Books (Authored, Research)

  • Peters, N. 2010. We Came By Sea: Celebrating Western Australia's Migrant Welcome Walls. Western Australia: Western Australian Museum.
  • Peters, N. 2008. From Tyranny to Freedom: Dutch Children from Netherlands East Indies to Fairbridge Farm School 1945-1946, 2 Edition. Humanities Curtin University of Technology: Black Swan Press.
  • Peters, N. 2001. Milk and Honey but No gold Postwar Migration to Western Australia between 1945 - 1964. Crawley, Western Australia, Australia: University of Western Australia Press.

Book Chapters (Authored, Research Quality)

  • Peters, N. 2010. "Dutch Australians at a Glance" (DAAAG) Virtual Center and Portal: Acknowledging the Past and Sustaining the Present and Future. In Across Borders Dutch Migration to North America and Australia, eds Jacob E. Nyenhuis, Suzanne M. Sinke, Robert P. Swierenga, 231-244. Holland, Michigan: Van Raalte Press.
  • Peters, N. 2006. Expectation versus reality - post-war Dutch migration to Australia. In Dutch Connections 400 years of Australian-Dutch maritime links 1606-2006, eds Lindsay Shaw & Dr Wendy Wilkins, 136-151. Sydney, NSW: Australian National Maritime Museum.
  • Peters, N. 2006. Evacuations into Australia from the Netherlands East Indies, 1942-1948. In The Dutch Down Under 1606-2006, eds Nonja Peters, 112-131. Perth, WA: University of Western Australia Press.
  • Peters, N. 2006. Making it in Australia: Self-employment among Dutch Australians. In The Dutch Down Under 1606-2006, eds Nonja Peters, 382-397. Perth, WA: University of Western Australia Press.
  • Peters, N. 2006. The Butlers of Wickepin. In The Dutch Down Under 1606-2006, eds Nonja Peters, 72-75. Perth, WA: University of Western Australia Press.
  • Peters, N. 2006. Too late to set the wreckord straight?. In The Dutch Down Under 1606-2006, eds Nonja Peters, 34-37. Perth, WA: University of Western Australia Press.
  • Peters, N. 2006. Two generations of Dutch women in Australia: Citizenship, identity and belonging. In The Dutch Down Under 1606-2006, eds Nonja Peters, 224-241. Perth, WA: University of Western Australia Press.

Refereed Articles (Scholarly Journals)

  • Peters, N. 2010. Dutch Australians At a Glance - DAAAG: Preserving Cultural Heritage - Digitally. Association of European Migration Institutions Journal 8: 42-49.
  • Peters, N. 2010. Aanpassen and Invisibility: Being Dutch in post-war Australia. Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis [The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History] 7(2): 82-102.
  • Peters, N. 2007. Offshore Visibly Different Refugees: Employment Status as it Relates to their English Language Proficiency. The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communications and Nations 7.
  • Peters, N. 2002. Mixed embeddedness: Does it really explain immigrant enterprise in Westerna Australia (WA)?. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research 8(1-2): 32-53.

Fully written papers (Refereed Conference proceedings)

  • Peters, N. 2012. The old gives way to the new: A review of past spaces of migration and new visions for migration at the Western Australian Museum.. THE HISTORY OF MIGRATION IN MUSEUMS : BETWEEN MEMORY AND POLITICS, 17/11/2011. Maison Internationale Universitaire, Montpellier, France: THE ASSOCIATION OF EUROPEAN MIGRATION INSTITUTIONS.
  • Peters, N. 2012. The old gives way to the new: A review of past spaces of migration and new visions for migration at the Western Australian Museum.. THE HISTORY OF MIGRATION IN MUSEUMS : BETWEEN MEMORY AND POLITICS, 17/11/2011. Maison Internationale Universitaire, Montpellier, France: THE ASSOCIATION OF EUROPEAN MIGRATION INSTITUTIONS.
  • Peters, N. 2011. Selling a dream - expectation versus reality – post-war Dutch and other migration to Australia 1945 – 1970.. Migration History Matters, Association of European Migration Institutions (AEMI) Annual Meeting and Conference, 28/09/2011. Aalborg, Denmark: Association of European Migration Institutions (AEMI).