Olivia Tasevski
Olivia Tasevski is an International Relations and History Tutor at the University of Melbourne, where she completed her Bachelor of Arts (Honors) and Master of International Relations. Her honors thesis examined U.S. human rights policy towards Indonesia during Gerald Ford’s tenure. She specializes in human rights issues in Indonesia alongside Indonesian, U.S. and Japanese politics and history.
Updated June 2023
Stories from This Author
The Overlooked Story of the Incarceration of Japanese Americans from Hawaii During World War II
Feb. 28, 2024 • Olivia Tasevski
In the months and years following Japan’s bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941, the U.S. government incarcerated a large number of Japanese American civilians from the U.S. mainland. Often forgotten are the Japanese Americans who lived in Hawaii and were also forced from their homes and imprisoned in Hawaii and on the U.S. mainland. Their forced relocation and incarceration has been largely omitted from the dominant narrative of Japanese American internment in the U.S. during World …
