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UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970: A Study in Policy Failure

Lynch, Gordon (2021) UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970: A Study in Policy Failure. Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood . Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke, UK, 338 pp. ISBN 978-3-030-69727-3. E-ISBN 978-3-030-69728-0. (doi:10.1007/978-3-030-69728-0) (KAR id:91441)

Abstract

This monograph provides a detailed analysis of UK Government policy and operational processes for assisted child migration programmes to Australia during the middle decades of the twentieth-century. Situating the work in the context of wider policy debates about standards for children's out-of-home care set out in the 1946 Curtis Report, the book examines the UK Government policy failures which led to child migrants being sent to unsuitable residential institutions in Australia and considers the implications of these for understanding the nature of early post-war child-care policy in the context of the emerging welfare state.

Item Type: Book
DOI/Identification number: 10.1007/978-3-030-69728-0
Uncontrolled keywords: child migration, child migrants
Subjects: D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D839 Post-war history, 1945-
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Culture and Languages
Funders: Arts and Humanities Research Council (https://ror.org/0505m1554)
Depositing User: Gordon Lynch
Date Deposited: 09 Nov 2021 12:10 UTC
Last Modified: 12 Jul 2022 10:42 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/91441 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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