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Australianama: The South Asian Odyssey in Australia (2018)
Book
Khatun, S. (2018). Australianama: The South Asian Odyssey in Australia. Hurst and Co. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190922603.001.0001

Australian deserts remain dotted with the ruins of old mosques. Beginning with a Bengali poetry collection discovered in a nineteenth-century mosque in the town of Broken Hill, Samia Khatun weaves together the stories of various peoples colonised by... Read More about Australianama: The South Asian Odyssey in Australia.

The Book of Marriage: Histories of Muslim Women in Twentieth-Century Australia (2016)
Journal Article
Khatun, S. (2017). The Book of Marriage: Histories of Muslim Women in Twentieth-Century Australia. Gender and History, 29(1), 8-30. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12258

From 1860 to the 1920s, Muslim merchants and workers from across British India and Afghanistan travelled to Australian shores to work in the extensive camel transportation network that underpinned the growth of capitalism in the Australian interior.... Read More about The Book of Marriage: Histories of Muslim Women in Twentieth-Century Australia.

Beyond Blank Spaces: Five Tracks to Late Nineteenth-Century Beltana (2015)
Journal Article
Khatun, S. (2015). Beyond Blank Spaces: Five Tracks to Late Nineteenth-Century Beltana. Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, 5(3), 68-86. https://doi.org/10.3167/TRANS.2015.050306

From the 1860s, the colonial settlement of Beltana in the northern
deserts of South Australia emerged as a transportation hub atop an
existing, cosmopolitan center of Aboriginal trade. Viewing a colonial
settlement on Kuyani land through a mobilit... Read More about Beyond Blank Spaces: Five Tracks to Late Nineteenth-Century Beltana.