Joy Damousi is Professor of History at the University of Melbourne.
She has had a long-standing interest in Australian political history,
beginning with her first book published twenty years ago on women
in left-wing movements, Women Come Rally: Socialism, communism
and gender in Australia 1890-1955 (1994). Since then she has written
on various aspects of the politics and impact of war, migration
and internationalism throughout the Cold War period. Her books
include Living with the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in
Post-war Australia (2001), Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural History
of Psychoanalysis in Australia (2005) and Colonial Voices: A Cultural
History of English in Australia 1840-1940 (2010). She is co-editor of
Diversity in Leadership: Australian Women, Past and Present (2014).

Introduction: The humanitarians: War refugee children, humanitarianism, and transnationalism; Part I. Saving: 1. Save the Children Fund in the Antipodes: Cecilia John, Meredith Atkinson and the paradox of child-saving politics; 2. The Australasian Orphanage at Antilyas: Near East Relief and American networks 1920s¿1930; Part II. Evacuating: 3. Humanitarianism and child refugee sponsorship: The Spanish Civil War and Esme Odgers; 4. Campaigns to evacuate Jewish child refugees; 5. British child evacuees to Australia; 6. Aileen Fitzpatrick and reuniting Greek families separated by war; Part III. Assimilating and adopting: 7. Humanitarian rights: UN World Refugee Year and UNICEF in Australia; 8. Florence Grylls and Save the Children Fund: Humanitarianism in the assimilation era; 9. The campaign for Japanese¿Australian children to enter Australia; 10. Humanitarian 'justice': Max Harris and the Australian Foster Parents Plan in Asia; 11. Humanitarian activism: The Vietnam War, Rosemary Taylor, Elaine Moir and Margaret Moses; Conclusion.