Title Empire's Children : Child Emigration, Welfare, and the Decline of the British World, 1869-1967.

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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Contents	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.
Summary	A definitive history of child emigration across the British Empire from the 1860s to its decline in the 1960s.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject	Child welfare -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century.
	Child welfare.
	Great Britain.
	Colonies.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Unaccompanied immigrant children -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century.
	Great Britain -- Colonies -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
	Emigration and immigration.
	Group identity -- Great Britain -- History -- Colonies -- 20th century.
	Group identity.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
	Unaccompanied immigrant children.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
	British colonies.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Boucher, Ellen. Empire's Children : Child Emigration, Welfare, and the Decline of the British World, 1869-1967. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2014 9781107041387
ISBN	9781107781337
	1107781337
	9781139649582 (ebook)
	1139649582 (ebook)
	9781107041387 (hardback)
	1107041384 (hardback)
	9781107784536 (electronic book)
	1107784530 (electronic book)

Title Empire's Children : Child Emigration, Welfare, and the Decline of the British World, 1869-1967.

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