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Author : Philip Bean
Release : 1989
Genre : Children
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Book Synopsis LOST CHILDREN OF THE EMPIRE;BY...AND JOY MELVILLE. by : Philip Bean
Download or read book LOST CHILDREN OF THE EMPIRE;BY...AND JOY MELVILLE. written by Philip Bean. This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Bean
Release : 2018-03-14
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Lost Children of the Empire by : Philip Bean
Download or read book Lost Children of the Empire written by Philip Bean. This book was released on 2018-03-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1989. The extraordinary story of Britain’s child migrants is one of 350 years of shaming exploitation. Around 130,000 children, some just 3 or 4 years old, were shipped off to distant parts of the Empire, the last as recently as 1967. For Britain it was a cheap way of emptying children’s homes and populating the colonies with ‘good British stock’; for the colonies it was a source of cheap labour. Even after the Second World War around 10,000 children were transported to Australia – where many were subjected to at best uncaring abandonment, and at worst a regime of appalling cruelty. Lost Children of the Empire tells the remarkable story of the Child Migrants Trust, set up in 1987, to trace families and to help those involved to come to terms with what has happened. But nothing can explain away the connivance and irresponsibility of the governments and organisations involved in this inhuman chapter of British history.
Author : Ellen Boucher
Release : 2014-03-13
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 384/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Empire's Children by : Ellen Boucher
Download or read book Empire's Children written by Ellen Boucher. This book was released on 2014-03-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive history of child emigration across the British Empire from the 1860s to its decline in the 1960s.
Author : Gordon Lynch
Release : 2015-12-03
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 178/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Remembering Child Migration by : Gordon Lynch
Download or read book Remembering Child Migration written by Gordon Lynch. This book was released on 2015-12-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1850 and 1970, around three hundred thousand children were sent to new homes through child migration programmes run by churches, charities and religious orders in the United States and the United Kingdom. Intended as humanitarian initiatives to save children from social and moral harm and to build them up as national and imperial citizens, these schemes have in many cases since become the focus of public censure, apology and sometimes financial redress. Remembering Child Migration is the first book to examine both the American 'orphan train' programmes and Britain's child migration schemes to its imperial colonies. Setting their work in historical context, it discusses their assumptions, methods and effects on the lives of those they claimed to help. Rather than seeing them as reflecting conventional child-care practice of their time, the book demonstrates that they were subject to criticism for much of the period in which they operated. Noting similarities between the American 'orphan trains' and early British migration schemes to Canada, it also shows how later British child migration schemes to Australia constituted a reversal of what had been understood to be good practice in the late Victorian period. At its heart, the book considers how welfare interventions motivated by humanitarian piety came to have such harmful effects in the lives of many child migrants. By examining how strong moral motivations can deflect critical reflection, legitimise power and build unwarranted bonds of trust, it explores the promise and risks of humanitarian sentiment.
Author : Jon Lawrence
Release : 2001-10-01
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Child Welfare and Social Action from the Nineteenth Century to the Present by : Jon Lawrence
Download or read book Child Welfare and Social Action from the Nineteenth Century to the Present written by Jon Lawrence. This book was released on 2001-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of twelve essays represents an important contribution to the understanding of child welfare and social action in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They challenge many assumptions about the history of childhood and child welfare policy and cover a variety of themes including the physical and sexual abuse of children, forced child migration and role of the welfare state.
