Migration, Ethnicity, and Madness
Book description
This book provides a social, cultural, and political history of migration, ethnicity, and madness in New Zealand between 1860 and 1910. Its key aim is to analyse the ways that patients, families, asylum officials, and immigration authorities engaged with the ethnic backgrounds and migration histories and pathways of asylum patients…
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1 author picked Migration, Ethnicity, and Madness as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love that this book tells a bleak migration story–the stories of those for whom migration was the beginning of a period of struggle. The most often told migration stories are the successful ones. The migrants who arrived in their new land and excelled–built a business empire, became prime minister, bought up huge swathes of land, and passed their wealth onto their descendants. Even at the time, letters home to family who stayed behind seldom spoke of hardship or difficulties.
Taking lunatic asylum records as its core source, this book allows this other end of the settler experience spectrum to…
From Rebecca's list on British and Irish migration to Aotearoa New Zealand.
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