TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boucher,Ellen
TI  - Empire's Children: Child Emigration, Welfare, and the Decline of the British World, 1869-1967
SN  - 9781107781337
AV  - HV751.A6 B66 2014 
U1  - 362.70917124109041 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Child welfare
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Colonies
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Unaccompanied immigrant children
KW  - Group identity
KW  - Enfants immigrants non accompagnés
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Social Security
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Social Services & Welfare
KW  - British colonies
KW  - fast
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - Émigration et immigration
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations and table; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Poverty and possibility in the era of Greater Britain; Britons overseas; Imperial potential; Pauper children for a White South Africa; Conclusion; 2 Developing empire, building children; Renewing the bonds of Greater Britain; Empire settlement and the farm school model; An empire of healthy children; Fit for Canada? The Bondfield Commission of 1924; Conclusion; 3 Upholding the banner of White Australia; Populate or perish; Crafting Australians; Conclusion; 4 "Defective" boys and "problem" girls: selection standards in 1930s Australia and Southern RhodesiaMental testing and repatriation from Australia; The psychology of Whiteness in Southern Rhodesia; Conclusion; 5 From imperial child welfare to national childhoods; Fraying imperial ties; Good homes overseas; Forging national childhoods; Conclusion; 6 Growing up in the twilight of empire; Choosing future citizens; Education for socialization; Cultivating national character; Conclusion; Conclusion: the problem of postimperial belonging; Family and identity in the late twentieth-century critique of child emigrationExiled from empire: nationhood after the demise of the British world; Appendix: oral histories; Bibliography; Archival collections; United Kingdom; Australia; United States; Published sources; Index
N2  - A definitive history of child emigration across the British Empire from the 1860s to its decline in the 1960s
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