Insanity And Immigration Control In New Zealand And Australia 1860 1930

Author : Jennifer S. Kain
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030263300

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Insanity and Immigration Control in New Zealand and Australia, 1860–1930 by Jennifer S. Kain Pdf

This book examines the policy and practice of the insanity clauses within the immigration controls of New Zealand and the Commonwealth of Australia. It reveals those charged with operating the legislation to be non-psychiatric gatekeepers who struggled to match its intent. Regardless of the evolution in language and the location at which a migrant’s mental suitability was assessed, those with ‘inherent mental defects’ and ‘transient insanity’ gained access to these regions. This book accounts for the increased attempts to medicalise border control in response to the widening scope of terminology used for mental illnesses, disabilities and dysfunctions. Such attempts co-existed with the promotion of these regions as ‘invalids’ paradises’ by governments, shipping companies, and non-asylum doctors. Using a bureaucratic lens, this book exposes these paradoxes, and the failings within these nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Australasian nation-state building exercises.

Author : Filippo Maria Sposini
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031427428

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The Certification of Insanity by Filippo Maria Sposini Pdf

This book represents the first systematic study of the certification of lunacy in the British Empire. Considering a variety of legal, archival, and published sources, it traces the origins and dissemination of a peculiar method for determining mental unsoundness defined as the ‘Victorian system’. Shaped by the dynamics surrounding the clandestine committal of wealthy Londoners in private madhouses, this system featured three distinctive tenets: standardized forms, independent medical examinations, and written facts of insanity. Despite their complexity, Victorian certificates achieved a remarkable success. Not only did they survive in the UK for more than a century, but they also served as a model for the development of mental health laws around the world. By the start of the Second World War, more than seventy colonial and non-colonial jurisdictions adopted the Victorian formula for making lunacy official with some countries still relying on it to this very day. Using case studies from Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific, this book charts the temporal and geographical trajectory of an imperial technology used to determine a person’s destiny. Shifting the focus from metropolitan policies to colonial dynamics, and from macro developments to micro histories, it explores the perspectives of families, doctors, and public officials as they began to deal with the delicate business of certification. This book will be of interest to scholars working on mental health policy, the history of medicine, disability studies, and the British Empire.

Author : Tony Ballantyne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350264182

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The Making and Remaking of Australasia by Tony Ballantyne Pdf

This book explores the emergence of 'Australasia' as a way of thinking about the culture and geography of this region. Although it is frequently understood to apply only to Australia and New Zealand, the concept has a longer and more complicated history. 'Australasia' emerged in the mid-18th century in both French and British writing as European empires extended their reach into Asia and the Pacific, and initially held strong links to the Asian continent. The book shows that interpretations and understandings of 'Australasia' shifted away from Asia in light of British imperial interests in the 19th century, and the concept was adapted by varying political agendas and cultural visions in order to reach into the Pacific or towards Antarctica. The Making and Remaking of Australasia offers a number of rich case studies which highlight how the idea itself was adapted and moulded by people and texts both in the southern hemisphere and the imperial metropole where a range of competing actors articulated divergent visions of this part of the British Empire. An important contribution to the cultural history of the British Empire, Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Studies, this collection shows how 'Australasia' has had multiple, often contrasting, meanings.

Author : Victoria M. Nagy,Georgina Rychner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003813132

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Women’s Criminalisation and Offending in Australia and New Zealand by Victoria M. Nagy,Georgina Rychner Pdf

Women’s Criminalisation and Offending in Australia and New Zealand offers new research and analysis of women’s offending and criminalisation in Australia and New Zealand from British settlement through to the late twentieth/early twenty-first centuries. Drawing attention to women as offenders as understood in a multitude of ways, this collection highlights how women have been involved with crime and criminal behaviour, their treatment inside and outside of courts and prisons, and how women’s deviation from societal norms have attracted negative attention throughout the decades. For Aboriginal and Māori women especially, the responses were harsher than what they could be for non-indigenous women. The chapters cover a broad range of transgressions that women have been actively involved with, including theft, drug and alcohol abuse and offences, organised crime, and homicide, as well as how women’s behaviour and their bodies have been criminalised and responded to by authorities. What this collection demonstrates is that women have often chosen to be involved with crime and criminality, while on other occasions their behaviour, innocent as it was, was not considered acceptable by contemporaries, resulting in confusion and misapprehension of women who refused to fit a mould. Women’s Criminalisation and Offending in Australia and New Zealand brings together historical and criminological methods, theories, and scholars to shed light on how Australia and New Zealand’s colonial, later state, and national governments have sought to understand, control, and punish women. This collection will be of interest and value to scholars, students, and everyone with an interest in criminology, history, law, sociology, Indigenous studies, and Australian and New Zealand studies.

Author : Chandran Kukathas
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691189680

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Immigration and Freedom by Chandran Kukathas Pdf

Panoptica -- Immigration -- Control -- Equality -- Economy -- Culture -- State -- Freedom.

Author : Andrew Hyde
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781398106154

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The Sun Must Set by Andrew Hyde Pdf

India’s experience of British colonialism. The true financial, social and ecological cost of British rule and the contrasting experiences of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh following independence.

Author : Catharine Coleborne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781350252707

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Vagrant Lives in Colonial Australasia by Catharine Coleborne Pdf

Investigating the history of vagrants in colonial Australia and New Zealand, this book provides insights into the histories and identities of marginalised peoples in the British Pacific Empire. Showing how their experiences were produced, shaped and transformed through laws and institutions, it reveals how the most vulnerable people in colonial society were regulated, marginalised and criminalised in the imperial world. Studying the language of vagrancy prosecution, narratives of mobility and welfare, vagrant families, gender and mobility and the political, social and cultural interpretations of vagrancy, this book sets out a conceptual framework of mobility as a field of inquiry for legal and historical studies. Defining 'mobility' as population movement and the occupation of new social and physical space, it offers an entry point to the related histories of penal colonies and new 'settler' societies. It provides insights into shared histories of vagrancy across New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and New Zealand, and explores how different jurisdictions regulated mobility within the temporal and geographical space of the British Pacific Empire.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : New Zealand
ISBN : UCAL:B3030615

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The New Zealand Official Year-book by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eric H. Boehm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History, Modern
ISBN : UOM:39015073568563

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Historical Abstracts by Eric H. Boehm Pdf

Author : Barbara Ann Roberts
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780776601632

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Whence They Came by Barbara Ann Roberts Pdf

Until recently, immigration policy was largely in the hands of a small group of bureaucrats, who strove desperately to fend off "offensive" peoples. Barbara Roberts explores these government officials, showing how they not only kept the doors closed but also managed to find a way to get rid of some of those who managed to break through their carefully guarded barriers. Robert's important book explores a dark history with an honest and objective style. Published in English.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Canada
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022097237

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America, History and Life by Anonim Pdf

Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.

Author : David Hamer
Publisher : Belconnen ACT : University of Canberra
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Australia
ISBN : NYPL:33433050660400

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Can Responsible Government Survive in Australia? by David Hamer Pdf

Author : Frank W. Stahnisch,Erna Kurbegović
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781771992657

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Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics by Frank W. Stahnisch,Erna Kurbegović Pdf

From 1928 to 1972, the Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act, Canada’s lengthiest eugenic policy, shaped social discourses and medical practice in the province. Sterilization programs—particularly involuntary sterilization programs—were responding both nationally and internationally to social anxieties produced by the perceived connection between mental degeneration and heredity. Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics illustrates how the emerging field of psychiatry and its concerns about inheritable conditions was heavily influenced by eugenic thought and contributed to the longevity of sterilization practices in Western Canada. Using institutional case studies, biographical accounts, and media developments from Western Canada and Europe, contributors trace the impact of eugenics on nursing practices, politics, and social attitudes, while investigating the ways in which eugenics discourses persisted unexpectedly and remained mostly unexamined in psychiatric practice. This volume further extends historical analysis into considerations of contemporary policy and human rights issues through a discussion of disability studies as well as compensation claims for victims of sterilization. In impressive detail, contributors shed new light on the medical and political influences of eugenics on psychiatry at a key moment in the field’s development. With contributions by Ashley Barlow, W. Mikkel Dack, Diana Mansell, Guel A. Russell, Celeste Tuong Vy Sharpe, Henderikus J. Stam, Douglas Wahlsten, Paul J. Weindling, Robert A. Wilson, Gregor Wolbring, and Marc Workman.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History, Modern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021174276

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Historical Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Almanacs, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119862543

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The World Almanac and Book of Facts by Anonim Pdf