CAPSTRANS: Lecturer - Julia Martínez

CAPSTRANS research associate

Research Specialisation

My research is in the field of labour migration and ethnic relations. My particular interests are the study of Asian workers and the Chinese diaspora in the Asia-Pacific. My PhD thesis (2000) was an historical study of Asian and Aboriginal labour in the multi-ethnic port of Darwin. My current projects include a study of the Chinese in colonial Vietnam and a study of Indonesian indentured workers in Australia.

Current Research Projects

Indonesian labour migration to north Australia, 1880-1972
Chinese Diaspora in Vietnam
Indigenous Labour in the Northern Territory
Southeast Asia Tropical Australia, Plural Port Darwin

Recent Publications

Searchable RIS publications from 2000 to date

(in press), 'When wages were clothes: Dressing down Aboriginal workers in Australia's Northern Territory', International Review of Social History (Accepted September 2006).
(in press). '"La Traite des Jaunes": Trafficking in women and children across the China Seas' in Cassandra Pybus, Markus Rediker & Emma Christopher eds, Many Middle Passages, University of California Press. (Accepted 18 January 2006).
(in press). 'The Chinese Trade in Women and Children from Northern Vietnam', in P. Legros, P. Le Roux, J. Baffie, G. Faure (eds), The Trade in Human Beings for Sex, IRASEC, Bangkok. (Accepted September 2005).
2007. 'Chinese Rice Trade and Shipping from the Northern Vietnamese Port of Haiphong', in Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, Vol. One, 83-97.
2006. 'The Chinese traders in French Indochina: Partners or rivals?', Adrian Vickers and Margaret Hanlon (eds), Asia Reconstructed: Proceedings of the 16th Biennial Conference of the ASAA, 2006, Wollongong.
2006. ‘Ethnic Policy and Practice in Darwin' in Regina Ganter (ed.), Mixed Relations, University of Western Australia Press, 122-145.
2005. 'The end of indenture? Asian workers in the Australian pearling industry, 1901-1972', International Labour and Working Class History, Vol 67, 125-147.
2005. ‘The limits of solidarity: the North Australian Workers’ Union as advocates of Aboriginal assimilation’, in Tim Rowse (ed,), Contesting Assimilation, API Network, pp. 101-118.
2005. 'When wages were clothes: Dressing down Aboriginal workers in the Northern Territory', in G. Patmore, J. Shields, & N. Balnave (eds), The Past is Before Us: Proceedings of the Ninth National Labour History Conference, The University of Sydney, 30 June-2 July, 2005, 175-182.
2003. ‘Separatism and solidarity: Chinese and Aboriginal sporting connections’. In Penny Edwards & Shen Yuan Fang (eds), Lost in the Whitewash: Aboriginal-Chinese Encounters in Australia, 1901-2001, Canberra: Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, 103-114.
1999. 'Questioning "White Australia": Unionism and "Coloured" Labour, 1911-1937', Labour History, Number 76, May: 1-19.