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Welfare and Constraint on Children's Agency: the Case of Post-War Child Migration Programmes to Australia

Lynch, Gordon (2021) Welfare and Constraint on Children's Agency: the Case of Post-War Child Migration Programmes to Australia. In: Children's Experiences of Welfare in Modern Britain. Institute for Historical Research, University of London Press, London, UK, pp. 175-196. ISBN 978-1-912702-86-2. E-ISBN 978-1-912702-87-9. (KAR id:91442)

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Abstract

Situating its discussion in wider theoretical debates about the nature of children's agency, the chapter explores how post-war child migration programmes from the UK to Australia functioned in ways that constrained children's agency and the emotional and existential implications of these experiences of constraint.

Item Type: Book section
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 12:21 UTC
Last Modified: 12 Jul 2022 10:42 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/91442 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)
Lynch, Gordon: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8961-3310
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