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Migration, Ethnicity, and Madness

New Zealand, 1860–1910

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

AvAngela McCarthy

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This book provides a social, cultural, and political history of migration, ethnicity, and madness in New Zealand between 1860 and 1910. Its key aim is to analyse the ways that patients, families, asylum officials, and immigration authorities engaged with the ethnic backgrounds and migration histories and pathways of asylum patients and why. Exploring such issues enables us to appreciate the difficulties that some migrants experienced in their relocation abroad, hardships that are often elided in studies of migration that focus on successful migrant settlement.Drawing upon lunatic asylum records (including patient casebooks and committal forms), immigration files, surgeon superintendents reports, asylum inspector reports, medical journals, and legislation, the book highlights the importance of examining antecedent experiences, the migration process itself, and settlement in the new land as factors that contributed to admission to an asylum. The study also raises broader themes beyond the asylum of discrimination, exclusion, segregation, and marginalisation, issues that are as evident in society today as in the past.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-04-02
Mått163 x 239 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieMigrations and Identities
Antal sidor256
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781781381625

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‘McCarthy is meticulous in presenting statistics … [and] eloquent … in the presentation and interpretation of specific personal “stories”. … [H]er book adds a further dimension that may well influence scholars far beyond Australasia … as a source of migration in its own right. … All students of international migration will benefit from McCarthy’s unveiling of an unfamiliar paper trail that invites us to reconstruct the movements and motives of a hitherto undocumented and “marginal” stratum. The fact that those identified as lunatics were at the margin of respectable society actually enhances their historical interest, providing extreme illustrations of issues that united and divided societies at large.’David Fitzpatrick, Immigrants and Minorities.