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Remembering Child Migration: Faith, Nation-Building and the Wounds of Charity
Gordon Lynch
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Description for Remembering Child Migration: Faith, Nation-Building and the Wounds of Charity
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 6 bw illus. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HRAM1; HRAX; JFFN; JKSB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472591128
SKU
V9781472591128
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Ref
99-1
About Gordon Lynch
Gordon Lynch is Michael Ramsey Professor of Modern Theology at the University of Kent. He has written widely on moral meanings in modern societies, including The Sacred in The Modern World: A Cultural Sociological Approach and On the Sacred.
Reviews for Remembering Child Migration: Faith, Nation-Building and the Wounds of Charity
This thoroughly researched comparative study shows how the child migration schemes operated in the past by prestigious charitable organisations in the United States and the United Kingdom, once widely admired, are now seen to have caused considerable damage to many of the deprived and disadvantaged children they were dedicated to rescue and redeem. To explain the long-lasting commitment to ... Read more