Australia Migration And Empire

Author : Philip Payton,Andrekos Varnava
Publisher : Springer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030223892

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Australia, Migration and Empire by Philip Payton,Andrekos Varnava Pdf

This edited collection explores how migrants played a major role in the creation and settlement of the British Empire, by focusing on a series of Australian case studies. Despite their shared experiences of migration and settlement, migrants nonetheless often exhibited distinctive cultural identities, which could be deployed for advantage. Migration established global mobility as a defining feature of the Empire. Ethnicity, class and gender were often powerful determinants of migrant attitudes and behaviour. This volume addresses these considerations, illuminating the complexity and diversity of the British Empire’s global immigration story. Since 1788, the propensity of the populations of Britain and Ireland to immigrate to Australia varied widely, but what this volume highlights is their remarkable diversity in character and impact. The book also presents the opportunities that existed for other immigrant groups to demonstrate their loyalty as members of the (white) Australian community, along with notable exceptions which demonstrated the limits of this inclusivity.

Author : Marjory Harper,Stephen Constantine
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0198703368

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Migration and Empire by Marjory Harper,Stephen Constantine Pdf

A unique comparative overview of the motives, means, and experiences of three main flows of empire migrants from the nineteenth century to the post-colonial period: UK migrants to white settler societies; non-white entrepreneurs and workers, relocating within Britain's empire; and empire immigrants coming into the UK, especially after 1945.

Author : Lisa Chilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015068821241

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Agents of Empire by Lisa Chilton Pdf

Agents of Empire highlights the aims and methods behind the emigrators' work, as well as the implications and ramifications of their long-term engagement with this imperialistic feminizing project.

Author : Chris Jeffery,Geoffrey Sherington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136224867

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Fairbridge by Chris Jeffery,Geoffrey Sherington Pdf

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.

Author : Marjory Harper,Stephen Constantine
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199250936

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Migration and Empire by Marjory Harper,Stephen Constantine Pdf

A unique comparative overview of the motives, means, and experiences of three main flows of empire migrants from the nineteenth century to the post-colonial period: UK migrants to white settler societies; non-white entrepreneurs and workers, relocating within Britain's empire; and empire immigrants coming into the UK, especially after 1945.

Author : Lisa Chilton
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442691667

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Agents of Empire by Lisa Chilton Pdf

The period between the 1860s and the 1920s saw a wave of female migration from Britain to Canada and Australia, much of which was managed by women. In Agents of Empire, Lisa Chilton explores the work of the women who promoted, managed, and ultimately transformed single British women's experiences of migration. Chilton examines the origins of women-run female emigration societies through various aspects of their work and the responses they received from emigrants and settled colonists. Working in the face of apathy in the community, resistance by other (usually male) managers of imperial migration, and agency exerted by the women they sought to manage, the emigrators endeavoured to maintain control over the field until government agencies took it over in the aftermath of the First World War. Agents of Empire highlights the aims and methods behind the emigrators' work, as well as the implications and ramifications of their long-term engagement with this imperialistic feminizing project. Chilton provides tremendous insight into the struggle for control of female migration and female migrants, aiding greatly in the study of gender, migration, and empire.

Author : Michael Roe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0521523265

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Australia, Britain and Migration, 1915-1940 by Michael Roe Pdf

The story of Australia's post-war immigration program is well known, but little has been written about migration to Australia between the wars. This 1995 book is a systematic study of assisted emigration from Britain to Australia during the inter-war years. It looks at the British and Australian politicians and bureaucrats involved in the program and the half-million migrants who uprooted themselves. While their imperial ties were significant, the book shows that British and Australian governments acted in their own interests, using migration to meet their different needs, with little regard for the migrants themselves. Michael Roe shows that the Anglo-Australian relationship was rife with contradictions and these often came to a head in the debates over migration. Not only is the book an important study of imperial relations in the 1920s and 1930s, it describes an important and overlooked aspect of Australian political and social history.

Author : Alan Gill
Publisher : Millennium Books (Au)
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Children
ISBN : 1864290625

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Orphans of the Empire by Alan Gill Pdf

Author : Melanie Burkett
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030849207

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Opposing Australia’s First Assisted Immigrants, 1832-42 by Melanie Burkett Pdf

This book unravels the paradoxical denigration of the first significant group of free (non-convict), working-class emigrants to the Australian colony of New South Wales in the 1830s. Though their labour was sorely needed, the colonial elite rejected the new arrivals on the grounds that they were ‘lazy’ and ‘immoral’. These criticisms stemmed from political, economic, and cultural motivations that ultimately sought to protect, legitimise, and cement the elite’s financial and social hegemony. The author seeks to explore the ulterior motives behind the public denouncements of immigrants by exposing the conflicting and opportunistic rationales used. Brought to Australia from Britain and Ireland through the experiment of ‘government-assisted migration,’ these immigrants are often remembered as ‘brave pioneers’ today, but this book exposes the deep antagonistic attitudes toward immigration that remain entrenched in Australian society. Uncovering early forms of class antagonism in Australia, this book presents useful insights for those researching Australian history and migration studies, as well as scholars of colonial history, by providing a model for re-evaluating and confronting a long-standing pattern in most settler societies: hostility toward immigrants.

Author : Deryck Marshall Schreuder,Stuart Ward
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199273737

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Australia's Empire by Deryck Marshall Schreuder,Stuart Ward Pdf

Australia's Empire is the first collaborative evaluation of Australia's imperial experience in more than a generation. Bringing together poltical, cultural, and aboriginal understandings of the past, it argues that the legacies of empire continue to influence the fabric of modern Australian society.

Author : David C. Atkinson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469630281

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The Burden of White Supremacy by David C. Atkinson Pdf

From 1896 to 1924, motivated by fears of an irresistible wave of Asian migration and the possibility that whites might be ousted from their position of global domination, British colonists and white Americans instituted stringent legislative controls on Chinese, Japanese, and South Asian immigration. Historians of these efforts typically stress similarity and collaboration between these movements, but in this compelling study, David C. Atkinson highlights the differences in these campaigns and argues that the main factor unifying these otherwise distinctive drives was the constant tensions they caused. Drawing on documentary evidence from the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, South Africa, and New Zealand, Atkinson traces how these exclusionary regimes drew inspiration from similar racial, economic, and strategic anxieties, but nevertheless developed idiosyncratically in the first decades of the twentieth century. Arguing that the so-called white man's burden was often white supremacy itself, Atkinson demonstrates how the tenets of absolute exclusion--meant to foster white racial, political, and economic supremacy--only inflamed dangerous tensions that threatened to undermine the British Empire, American foreign relations, and the new framework of international cooperation that followed the First World War.

Author : Kent Fedorowich,Andrew S. Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : British
ISBN : 1526106701

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Empire, Migration and Identity in the British World by Kent Fedorowich,Andrew S. Thompson Pdf

This groundbreaking study opens up new avenues of research into the history of imperial mobility and migration, while also engaging with the contemporary debates generated by immigration, globalisation and transnationalism. The chief aim of the volume is to introduce the reader to new andemerging research in the broad field of "imperial migration", and, in so doing, to show how this 'new' migration scholarship is helping to deepen and enrich our understanding of the concept of a British World.Based upon far-reaching primary, secondary and oral-based research in Australia, Canada, France, Great Britain, the United States and Zambia, the volume provides a more integrated and comparative approach to histories of migration and mobility within a British imperial world. The key focal point isthe analysis of different types of imperial migration, its shifting patterns and processes, its socio-economic bases, and the transfer of ideas, identities, racial constructs and investment capital along the various networks established by British migrants throughout the empire, both formal andinformal.The essays also explore the tensions between the national and imperial, and the transnational and global. In doing so, they reflect on notions of "Britishness" as contested forms of identity. What emerges is a subtle yet far-reaching investigation of competing forms of empire and nation-building.This book will appeal to undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars interested in British imperial and migration history. It also offers important insights for students interested in the comparative dynamics and overlapping vectors of global, transnational and British World history.

Author : Alan Gill
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 1149 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742747637

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Orphans of The Empire by Alan Gill Pdf

This is a book about the white stolen children - a lost tribe - who were sent to Australia with dreams of a better life, but who, in reality, often suffered great cruelty and abuse. 'This book draws back the curtain on a part of Australian and British history that has been crying out for recognition. All Australians shoud read it' Sir Ronald Wilson 'This story is remarkable. Even more remarkable is the fact that, until now, it was largely untold. This is an important story, an important part of Australia's story and long overdue' David Hill 'Orphans of the Empire is unusually affecting, hard to put down..' Geraldine Doogue An account of the white 'stolen children', who were supposedly orphans arriving in Australia from many countries to a better future, but who in reality simply came from poor families and arrived to uncertain futures and often extremely abusive environments in various institutions. More than 80,000 people were directly involved in this experience as 'orphans', while thousands more have been affected by the experience as children and relatives of the orphans, and as Australian-born children who were also living in the institutions described in this book. Although there were occasional great acts of kindness towards these children there was also systematic abuse of all kinds. Orphans of the Empire is based on hundreds of hours of taped interviews with men and women who came to Australia as child migrants. It is the complete and shocking story that was first made known through 4 Corners and 60 Minutes stories and the BBC's very popular Leaving Of Liverpool series.

Author : Eric Richards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015080835062

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Destination Australia by Eric Richards Pdf

In 1901 most Australians were loyal, white subjects of the British Empire with direct connections to Britain. Within a hundred years, following an unparalleled immigration program, its population was one of the most diverse on earth. No other country has achieved such radical social and demographic change in so short a time. Destination Australia tells the story of this extraordinary transformation. Against the odds, this change has caused minimal social disruption and tension. While immigration has generated some political and social anxieties, Australia has maintained a stable democracy and a coherent social fabric. One of the impressive achievements of this book is in explaining why this might be so. Eric Richards recounts the experiences of many individual migrants from all over the world, examines the dramas and challenges of officials involved in this grand experiment and ends up telling a truly remarkable story. Compelling and revealing, Destination Australia is essentially the Australian story of the twentieth century.

Author : Radhika Mongia
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822372110

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Indian Migration and Empire by Radhika Mongia Pdf

How did states come to monopolize control over migration? What do the processes that produced this monopoly tell us about the modern state? In Indian Migration and Empire Radhika Mongia provocatively argues that the formation of colonial migration regulations was dependent upon, accompanied by, and generative of profound changes in normative conceptions of the modern state. Focused on state regulation of colonial Indian migration between 1834 and 1917, Mongia illuminates the genesis of central techniques of migration control. She shows how important elements of current migration regimes, including the notion of state sovereignty as embodying the authority to control migration, the distinction between free and forced migration, the emergence of passports, the formation of migration bureaucracies, and the incorporation of kinship relations into migration logics, are the product of complex debates that attended colonial migrations. By charting how state control of migration was critical to the transformation of a world dominated by empire-states into a world dominated by nation-states, Mongia challenges positions that posit a stark distinction between the colonial state and the modern state to trace aspects of their entanglements.