James Jupp enjoys well-deserved iconic status among Australian historians of migration. Among his prodigious output, Arrivals and Departures (1966) was ahead of its time in combining the ‘big picture’ of postwar immigration policy history with intimate insights into migrant life and experience. The Australian People: An encyclopedia of the nation, its people and their origins (1988, 2001) is the indispensable standard reference. Jupp’s vast knowledge is underpinned by his own experience as a 1950s migrant, from ‘humble but undeniably English origins among the agricultural labourers of East Surrey’.