Author: Helena Zeweri

Helena Zeweri is Assistant Professor of Global Studies at the
University of Virginia where she teaches classes on global migration,
immigrant-led political activism, and human rights. She received her
PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Rice University. Helena's research
examines the politics of race and gender within immigrant-targeted
social welfare in settler colonial states, with a focus on Australia.

Helena Zeweri

Helena Zeweri is Assistant Professor of Global Studies at the University of Virginia where she teaches classes on global migration, immigrant-led political activism, and human rights. She received her PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Rice University. Helena's research examines the politics of race and gender within immigrant-targeted social welfare in settler colonial states, with a focus on Australia.

Casting Out the Disabled and Ill Immigrant: The Legacies of Australia’s Immigration Restriction Act of 1901

December, 2020 / By Helena Zeweri

Collectively, immigration policies function to perform national sovereignty by reinforcing the division between citizen and migrant, usually conflated with ‘native’ […]