British Female Emigration Societies and the New World, 1860-1914
This book focuses on the departure of Britain’s surplus” women to Australia and New Zealand organised by British female philanthropic societies, which were founded in order to assist and protect their strictly selected gentlewomen emigrants. Starting with
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Marie Ruiz
British Female Emigration Societies and the New World, 1860–1914
Marie Ruiz Université de Picardie Jules Verne Amiens, France
ISBN 978-3-319-50178-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-50179-6
ISBN 978-3-319-50179-6 (eBook)
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FOREWORD
The different forms migration has taken, and the debates that have invariably circulated around it, tell us a great deal about both the places left behind and those to which migrants moved. Many of the themes which have emerged in debates about migration are surprisingly enduring: family, race and work have surfaced over and over again as key concerns, and have also driven radically different views of migration. Marie-José Ruiz covers all of these topics and more in her new interpretation of the female emigration societies through whose offices single women left nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain bound for its white settler colonies. Although the number of immigrants served by these private bodies was small compared to those who enjoyed state assistance, the presence and activities of these bodies highlight the many contradictions in Victorian attitudes to women, to colonisation and to the importance of work for the individual, as well as for society as a whole. Anxieties about all of these issues were encapsulated in the vigorous debates over migration which continue to this day. Ruiz’s study is a timely intervention at a moment when migration is a pres
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