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7 law&history 166 (2020)
Married Women's Nationality and the White Australia Policy, 1920-1948

handle is hein.journals/lwanhist7 and id is 176 raw text is: Married Women's Nationality and the White Australia Policy, 1920-1948 Emma Bellino* Between 1920 and 1948, when an Australian-born woman married an 'alien' - that is, a non-British subject - she was dispossessed of her nationality and deemed to be an alien too. However, marital denaturalisation did not affect all women equally. This article draws on legislation, government correspondence, parliamentary debates and newspaper articles to argue that Australian women married to non-white men, or of non-white ethnicity themselves, were doubly disadvantaged by marital denaturalisation. For those who married Chinese men, or were themselves of Chinese ethnicity, the so-called White Australia Policy, which was in place in the early twentieth century, made the consequences of marital denaturalisation much more severe than for those who married European aliens. The policies that specifically affected them and their families, as well as their experiences, can expand our understanding of how Australian women experienced and were excluded from citizenship in the early twentieth century. Keywords: marital denaturalisation, nationality, white Australia, citizenship, married women, Chinese Moo Kim Kow Chee Quee was born in the Northern Territory in 1891. She was, by virtue of her birth, a British subject Yet, in September 1928, she applied to be naturalised in Australia and was refused. In 1911, Moo had married James Chee Quee, a Chinese national from Canton. Because she had married a foreigner, Moo lost her status as a British subject and was deemed to have acquired her husband's nationality. After James' death, in 1928, she continued to own a share in his grocery business on Thursday Island and, that same year, attempted to purchase property. As an alien, she was unable to do so.' * Thanks to the two anonymous peer reviewers for their very kind and helpful feedback

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