A unique comparative overview of the motives, means, and experiences of threemain flows of empire migrants from the nineteenth century to the post-colonial period: UK migrants to white settler societies; non-white entrepreneurs and workers, relocating within Britain's empire; and empire immigrants coming intothe UK, especially after 1945. INDICE: 1: Introduction: The British Empire and Empire Migration, 1815 to the 1960s; 2: Crossing the Atlantic: Migrants and Settlers in Canada; 3: A Land of Perpetual Summer: Australian Experiences; 4: Sheep and Sunshine: New Zealand; 5: Africa South of the Sahara; 6: Exile into Bondage? Non-White Migrants and Settlers; 7: Immigration and the Heart of Empire; 8: A Civilizing Influence? The Female Migrant; 9: Children of the Poor: Child and Juvenile Migration; 10: The Emigration Business; 11: The Homecoming Migrant; 12: Afterword: ThePolitics of Migration and the End of Empire
- ISBN: 978-0-19-925093-6
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 400
- Fecha Publicación: 23/09/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés