Empire's Children : Child Emigration, Welfare, and the Decline of the British World, 1869-1967.
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- Child welfare -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century
- Unaccompanied immigrant children -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
- Group identity -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century
- Enfants immigrants non accompagnés -- Grande-Bretagne -- Colonies -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Grande-Bretagne -- Colonies -- Émigration et immigration -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare
- British colonies
- Emigration and immigration
- Group identity
- Great Britain
- 1900-1999
- 362.70917124109041
- HV751.A6 B66 2014
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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.
A definitive history of child emigration across the British Empire from the 1860s to its decline in the 1960s.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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