Nonja Peters

{{Short description|Dutch-Australian writer and academic}}

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Nonja Yvonne Huberta Maria Peters is a Western Australian author and academic of Dutch ancestry.

Her books produced on migration and Dutch Australians have received wide acclaim.{{Citation|author1=Ged|first=Martin|title=The Dutch Down Under 1606–2006|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/3499270|publication-date=2007-07-18|editor-last=Peters|editor-first=Nonja|access-date=25 February 2015}}{{Citation|author1=Azzolina|first=D.S.|title=Peters, Nonja. Milk and honey–but no gold: postwar migration to Western Australia, 1945-1964.(Book Review)(Brief Article)|journal=CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries|volume=40|issue=3|pages=531(2)|publication-date=2002-11-01|publisher=American Library Association|issn=0009-4978}}{{Citation|title=Nonja Peters, Milk and Honey–But No Gold: Postwar Migration to Western Australia 1945–1964. (Book Notes)|journal=Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society|volume=88|issue=1|pages=110(2)|publication-date=2002-06-01|publisher=Royal Australian Historical Society|issn=0035-8762}}{{Citation|author1=Jupp|first=James|title=Milk and Honey – but No Gold: Postwar Migration to Western Australia, 1945–1964.(Book Review)|journal=The International History Review|volume=25|issue=2|pages=475–476|publication-date=2003-06-01|publisher=Taylor & Francis Ltd|issn=0707-5332}}

She has served on a number of Australian and Western Australian bodies,{{Cite web|url=http://john.curtin.edu.au/events/speeches/petersbiog.html|title=Biography of Elsie Curtin | JCPML [live]|date=15 January 2020}} as well as being head of the Curtin University Migration, Ethnicity, Refugees & Citizenship Research Unit.{{Cite web|date=8 June 2003|title=Dr Nonja Peters – a brief biography – Archived Website|url=http://john.curtin.edu.au/events/speeches/petersbiog.html|access-date=2021-10-15|website=Trove|language=en|archive-date=7 June 2003|archive-url=http://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20030607204112/http://john.curtin.edu.au/events/speeches/petersbiog.html|url-status=bot: unknown}}

Works

  • {{Citation | author1=Peters |first=Nonja| title=Northam Migrant Camps photographic exhibition | publication-date=1990 | publisher=Northam and District Heritage Development Association | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/37431796 | access-date=25 February 2015 }}
  • {{Citation | author1=Peters | author2=University of Western Australia. Department of Anthropology |first=Nonja Ivonne| title=Trading places : Greek, Italian, Dutch and Vietnamese enterprise in Western Australia | publication-date=1999 | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/35466904 | access-date=25 February 2015 }}
  • {{Citation | author1=Peters | author2=University of Western Australia Press | author3=Peters, Nonja |first=Nonja| title=Milk and honey but no gold : postwar migration to Western Australia, 1945–1964 | year=2001 | publication-date=2001 | publisher=University of Western Australia Press | isbn=978-1-876268-56-5 }}
  • {{Citation | author1=Peters | author2=Peters, Nonja |first=Nonja| title=The Dutch down under, 1606–2006 | year=2006 | publication-date=2006 | publisher=University of Western Australia Press | isbn=978-1-920694-75-3 }}{{Citation | title=Nonja Peters, The Dutch Down Under 1606-2006.(Brief article)(Book review) | journal=Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society | publication-date=2006-12-01 | publisher=Royal Australian Historical Society | volume=92 | issue=2 | pages=237(2) | issn=0035-8762 }}
  • {{Citation | author1=Peters |first=Nonja| title=From tyranny to freedom : Dutch children from the Netherlands East Indies to Fairbridge Farm School 1945–1946 | year=2008 | publication-date=2008 | publisher=Black Swan | isbn=978-0-9757519-7-8 }}
  • Depok – De droom van Cornelis Chastelein, 2019, LM Publishers Volendam, {{ISBN|9789460225246}}

References

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