Uprooted
The Shipment of Poor Children to Canada, 1867-1917
- Author/Editor(s):
- Roy Parker
- Format:
- Paperback , 376 pages , 240 x 172 mm
- ISBN
- 9781847426680
- Published:
- 07 Jan 2010
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This is an excellent historical analysis of the push and pull factors that not long ago engineered the transportation of thousands of children to live mainly with homestead families in Canada.
Professor Emeritus John Triseliotis, University of Edinburgh
This is a book of rare distinction. ...based on a huge amount of further primary research....This is a deeply humane book which deserves to be read and reflected upon.
British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol 22:2, 2008
Truly an interdisciplinary study, giving due weight to a stunning number of factors.
Susanne Kelman, Literary Review of Canada, July/August 2008
About This Book
This book explores the economic, religious, political and personal forces that led to some 80,000 British children being sent to Canada between 1867 and 1915. How did this come about? What were the motives and methods of the people involved? Why did it come to an end? What effects did it have on the children involved and what eventually became of them? These are the questions Roy Parker explores in this meticulously researched work. His book - humane and highly professional - will capture and hold the interest of many: the academic, the practitioner and the general reader.
Author Biography
Roy Parker is Professor Emeritus of Social Policy at the University of Bristol. Formerly he taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research and writing reflect a longstanding interest in the politics of social policy and in the condition and needs of disadvantaged children.Contents
Part one: Setting the scene: The background
Early initiatives
Part two: Setbacks and anxieties: Checks and balances
The issue of inspection
Part three: The field expands: The second wave of organised Protestant child emigration
The Catholic response
The 'unorganised' emigrationists
Part four: The Canadian dimension: The Canadian demand for child labour
Canadian opposition to child immigration
The management of the opposition in Canada
Part five: The ambiguities and obfuscation: The reformatories and industrial schools
Part six: The children and their parents: What befell the children
Parents' rights, consent and legislation
Part seven: A chapter closes: Into the twentieth century
Part eight: A review: Explanation and assessment.
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