Synopses & Reviews
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.
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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
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In this interdisciplinary and intercountry tour de force, Roy Parker traces the extraordinary, 50-year story of the export of some 80,000 children from Britain to Canada. Fascinating for students of social work, social policy and child welfare in both countries. David Donnison, Professor Emeritus in Urban Studies, Glasgow University
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Truly an interdisciplinary study, giving due weight to a stunning number of factors. Susanne Kelman, Literary Review of Canada, July/August 2008
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It is a wonderfully researched book and presents a balanced analysis of the period. Julia Davey, Family History Researcher
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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
Synopsis
During the 50 years following Confederation in 1867, some 80,000 British children - many of them under the age of 10 - were shipped from Britain to Canada by Poor Law authorities and voluntary bodies. How did this come about? What were the motives and methods of the people involved in both countries? 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 author Roy Parker explores in a meticulously researched work that brings together the economic, political, social, medical, legal, administrative, and religious aspects of the story in both Britain and Canada. He concludes with a moving review of evidence from more recent survivors of child migration, discussing the lifelong effects of their experiences with the help of modern psychological insights. His book, Uprooted, will capture and hold the interest of the academic, the practitioner, and the general reader, as well as the relatives and descendants -
Synopsis
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 and provides a vivid look at one aspect of the history of child welfare practices.
About the Author
Roy Parker is professor emeritus of social policy at the University of Bristol, UK.
Table of 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