Fairbridge: Empire and Child Migration

ISBN-13: 9780713040364 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 304 str.

Chris Jeffery;Geoffrey Sherington

Opis

In the half-century after 1913, approximately 5000 children were sent from Britain to Australia, Canada, and Rhodesia under the auspices of the Child Emigration Society, established by the South-African born Kingsley Fairbridge in 1909. The Fairbridge Society's child emigration scheme became the best known and most celebrated of the 20th-century juvenile migration schemes from Britain to the Imperial Dominions. This study investigates the motives for the establishment of the Fairbridge child migration scheme, examines its history in Australia and Canada, and outlines the experiences of many of the former child migrants. The book is based on material from Australia and Canada as well as archives of the Fairbridge Society in England, Western Australia and New South Wales, plus surviving records of the Society in British Columbia, and on interviews with former Fairbridge children. It aims to place the Fairbridge scheme in its historical context, and uses oral history, interviews and photographs.

This study investigates the motives for the establishment of the Fairbridge child migration scheme, examines its history in Australia and Canada, and outlines the experiences of many of the former child migrants.

Spis treści

Abbreviations, Illustrations and Maps, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. Out of Africa, 2. Establishing the Farm, 3. Empire Settlement, 4. Pinjarra after Kingsley, 5. Extending the Empire, 6. The End ofEmpire, Epilogue and Postscript, Appendix I: Political Support for Fairbridge Migration, Appendix II: Numbers ofFairbridge Child Migrants, Bibliography, Index