Professor Klaus Neumann recently reviewed Asylum By Boat: Origins of Australia’s Refugee Policy by Claire Higgins for Australian Book Review.

Professor Neumann has held teaching and research positions at universities in Germany and Australia, and worked as an independent historian in Australia and New Zealand. He has written extensively about public memories in postwar Germany; colonial history and memory in Papua New Guinea; immigration, refugee and asylum seeker policies; civilian internment; volcanoes; and New Zealand forestry, among other topics.