It explores migrant experiences in Australia, Canada and New Zealand alongside other countries. The book charts the gradual reinvention of the 'British diaspora'from a postwar migration of austerity to a modern migration of prosperity. It offers a different way of writing migration history, based ...
The numbers of children sent from the United Kingdom to Australia never matched either the ambition of, or financial investment from, the Australian Commonwealth Government and, by the early 1960s, assisted child migration was allowed to fade into obscurity in its immigration programmes. Others, ...
the notion that Chinese indenture was abolished by 1920 has become accepted scholarly wisdom. In Wang Gungwu’s 1989 account of Chinese migration to Southeast Asia, indenture was described as a ‘transitional’ phase of labour migration that was ‘quickly put to an end’.12In terms of British ...
Such a policy would stay in place until 1938 when assisted migration to the region was banned and a more permanent South Asian workforce became necessary to meet the rubber industry's labor demands.42 In contrast to the fluidity and mixing that defined life in British Malaya's towns and ...
Shurlee. 2020. The Uses of Historical Research in Child Abuse Inquiries.History & Policy. Available from:https://www.historyandpolicy.org/policy-papers/papers/the-uses-of-historical-research-in-child-abuse-inquiries.Accessed 4 October 2023; Lynch, Gordon. 2020.UK Child Migration to Australia, ...
Gradually, foreign recipes – formulligatawny soupfrom India,lamingtonsfrom Australia – made their way into the book. But in the colonies,Mrs Beetonbecame the basis for local guides to household management. In South Africa, the wildly popularHilda’s Where Is It?byHildagonda Duckitt(1919) and...
Crawford, Birkbeck College London, UK Adam Crowl, Icarus Interstellar, Australia Eric W. Davis, Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin, USA Kathryn Denning, York University, Toronto, Canada Martyn Fogg, Probability Research Group, UK Raghavan Gopalaswami, Aerospace Researcher, India Lamartine ...
It seems possible that ectotherms may, on average, be more vulnerable to habitat change than endotherms perhaps because ectothermic physiology is more heavily constrained by environmental temperature regimes, which in turn impose constraints on tolerable habitat structures and migration routes. In ...
We particularly welcome applications from historians whose research directly links with the Department’s established strengths in social and cultural history, including material culture and/or histories of identities, particularly around questions of race, migration and diaspora, gender and sexuality. ...
Laws need changing to stop welfare migration At a press conference at Downing Street, Cameron said both he and Merkel “want to see changes in Europe.” EU laws regarding the freedom of movement need changing, he added, to make sure people to not move into a country simply to sign up fo...