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Author:   Roy Parker
Publisher:   Policy Press
Imprint:   Policy Press
ISBN:  

9781847422903

ISBN 10:   184742290
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   07 January 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Electronic book text
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part one: Setting the scene: The background; Early initiatives; Part two: Setbacks and anxieties: Checks and balances; The issue of inspection; Part three: The field expands: The second wave of organised Protestant child emigration; The Catholic response; The 'unorganised' emigrationists; Part four: The Canadian dimension: The Canadian demand for child labour; Canadian opposition to child immigration; The management of the opposition in Canada; Part five: The ambiguities and obfuscation: The reformatories and industrial schools; Part six: The children and their parents: What befell the children; Parents' rights, consent and legislation; Part seven: A chapter closes: Into the twentieth century; Part eight: A review: Explanation and assessment.

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It is a wonderfully researched book and presents a balanced analysis of the period. Julia Davey, Family History Researcher This is a book of rare distinction. ...based on a huge amount of further primary research.... This is a deeply humane book which deserves to be read and reflected upon. British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol 22:2, 2008 Truly an interdisciplinary study, giving due weight to a stunning number of factors. Susanne Kelman, Literary Review of Canada, July/August 2008 In this interdisciplinary and intercountry tour de force, Roy Parker traces the extraordinary, 50-year story of the export of some 80,000 children from Britain to Canada. Fascinating for students of social work, social policy and child welfare in both countries. David Donnison, Professor Emeritus in Urban Studies, Glasgow University This is an excellent historical analysis of the push and pull factors that not long ago engineered the transportation of thousands of children to live mainly with homestead families in Canada. Professor Emeritus John Triseliotis, University of Edinburgh

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Roy Parker is Professor Emeritus of Social Policy at the University of Bristol. Formerly he taught at the LSE. He has a longstanding interest in the history and politics of social policy and the plight of disadvantaged children. Before his academic career he worked as a child care officer and in residential care.

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