Title: Empire's children : child emigration, welfare, and the decline of the British world, 1869-1967 /
Authors: Boucher, Ellen, 1978-
Year: 2014
Subjects: Großbritannien; Child welfare Colonies Great Britain History; Unaccompanied immigrant children Colonies Great Britain History; Group identity Great Britain Colonies History; Child welfare Great Britain Colonies History; Unaccompanied immigrant children Great Britain Colonies History; Great Britain Colonies Emigration and immigration History
Abstract: A definitive history of child emigration across the British Empire from the 1860s to its decline in the 1960s.
Contents: Poverty and possibility in the era of Greater Britain -- Developing Empire, building children -- Upholding the banner of white Australia -- "Defective" boys and "problem" girls: selection standards in 1930s Australia and Southern Rhodesia -- From imperial child welfare to national childhoods -- Growing up in the twilight of Empire -- Conclusion: the problem of post-imperial belonging.