LEADER 03709nam 22005531 450 001 9910511718603321 005 20161215164627.0 010 $a1-4742-9427-8 010 $a1-4725-9116-X 024 7 $a10.5040/9781474294270 035 $a(CKB)3710000000514544 035 $a(EBL)4188052 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4188052 035 $a(OCoLC)933730340 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09260553 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000514544 100 $a20170328d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aRemembering child migration $efaith, nation-building, and the wounds of charity /$fGordon Lynch 210 1$aNew York :$cBloomsbury Plc,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (191 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-4725-9115-1 311 $a1-4725-9112-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [123]-168) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 1. 'The humane remedy': America and the development of mass child migration -- 2. 'In the children's land of promise': UK child migration schemes to Canada -- 3. 'No placeless waifs but inheritors of sacred duties': UK child migration schemes to Australia -- 4. 'I love both my mummies': moral meanings and the wounds of charity -- 5. Remembering child migration today. 330 $a"Between 1850 and 1970, around three hundred thousand children were sent to new homes through child migration programmes run by churches, charities and religious orders in the United States and the United Kingdom. Intended as humanitarian initiatives to save children from social and moral harm and to build them up as national and imperial citizens, these schemes have in many cases since become the focus of public censure, apology and sometimes financial redress. Remembering Child Migration is the first book to examine both the American 'orphan train' programmes and Britain's child migration schemes to its imperial colonies. Setting their work in historical context, it discusses their assumptions, methods and effects on the lives of those they claimed to help. Rather than seeing them as reflecting conventional child-care practice of their time, the book demonstrates that they were subject to criticism for much of the period in which they operated. Noting similarities between the American 'orphan trains' and early British migration schemes to Canada, it also shows how later British child migration schemes to Australia constituted a reversal of what had been understood to be good practice in the late Victorian period. At its heart, the book considers how welfare interventions motivated by humanitarian piety came to have such harmful effects in the lives of many child migrants. By examining how strong moral motivations can deflect critical reflection, legitimise power and build unwarranted bonds of trust, it explores the promise and risks of humanitarian sentiment."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 606 $aChurch work with children$zGreat Britain 606 $aChurch work with children$zUnited States 606 $aChurch work with immigrants$zGreat Britain 606 $aChurch work with immigrants$zUnited States 606 $2History of religion 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChurch work with children 615 0$aChurch work with children 615 0$aChurch work with immigrants 615 0$aChurch work with immigrants 676 $a362.73 700 $aLynch$b Gordon$f1968-$0854095 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910511718603321 996 $aRemembering child migration$92548167 997 $aUNINA