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Italians--Australia--Forced removal and internment, 1940-1946


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    • Forced removal of Italians in Australia, 1940-1946
    • Internment of Italians in Australia, 1940-1946
    • Italians--Australia--Evacuation and relocation, 1940-1946
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    • Italians--Australia--Evacuation and relocation, 1940-1946
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    • found: Work cat.: 2006386983: Enemy aliens, 2005:cover (The internment of Italian migrants in Australia during the Second World War) p. 1, etc. (Following Italy's declaration of war on Britain and France on June 10th 1940, the Australian authorities carried out the biggest round-up of civilians of an Italian descent)
    • found: Australia's frontline, 1992:p. 90 (by mid 1942 many Italians had been released into work camps)
    • found: Bevege, M. Behind barbed wire, 1993:p. 212-217 (Italians were released from internment camps in 1943-1944 and put into forced-labor work camps; most Italians were released from internment camps by the end of 1944, but a few remained in the camps into 1946)
    • found: Work cat.: Under suspicion: citizenship and internment in Australia during the Second World War, 2008:p. 23 ("In total, of the 501 people interned from Innisfail, 406 were of Italian birth, representing about 25 percent of the entire Italian population of the district") (OCoLC)778786436
    • found: Hidden lives: war, internment and Australia's Italians, 2018:p. 3 ("Within an hour of war being declared, nationals from Axis countries who were living or travelling in allied nations were classified as enemy aliens by government authorities") p.6 ("Almost 5,000 Italians living in Australia, along with hundreds arrested in other British controlled territories, were interned in prison camps in isolated locations") (OCoLC)1110380559
    • found: Enemyaliens : the internment of Italian migrants in Australia during the Second World War, 2005:p. 15 ("About 20 percent of the Italian-born population of Australia was interned during the Second World War. In addition, many of those Australian citizens and residents of Italian origin who were not interned were subject to various restrictions on their freedom of movement") p. 17 ("People of Italian origin in each of the citizenship categories of Australian-born, naturalised British subject and Italian citizen were interned in Australia during World War II, unlike the situation in the United States, where American citizens of Italian origin were not subject to internment") (OCoLC)1057976156
    • found: Parliament of Southern Australia House of Assembly motion 20 June 2012("acknowledges that among the enemy aliens interned at the Loveday Camps were people who were permanent residents of or were born in Australia or had become British subject in accordance with the federal immigrant and citizenship laws of the day")
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    • 2006-07-10: new
    • 2021-07-19: revised
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