Gordon Lynch
Remembering Child Migration
- ISBN 13:
- 9781472591128
- author:
- Gordon Lynch
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Bloomsbury Academic
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2015
- Pages:
- 192
- Dimensions:
- 23.4 x 1.9 x 15.8 cm
- Genre:
- Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Christian Living
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
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. These schemes have since become the focus of public censure, apology and sometimes financial redress.
This book examines both the American 'orphan train' programmes and Britain's child migration schemes to its imperial colonies, setting their work in historical context to discuss their assumptions, methods and effects on the lives of those they claimed to help. It explores how welfare interventions motivated by humanitarian piety came to have such harmful effects in the lives of many child migrants.
The book considers how strong moral motivations can deflect critical reflection, legitimise power and build unwarranted bonds of trust, revealing the promise and risks of humanitarian sentiment behind these well-intentioned but ultimately flawed initiatives.
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