Rescuing children, reforming the Empire: British child migration to colonial Southern Rhodesia

Uusihakala, Katja Marikka

doi:10.1080/1070289x.2014.939184

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“…It was necessary both to maintain white domination, and to have a loyal European population to rely on. Julie Bonello, Katja Uusihakala, Samuel Coghe, and Claude Lützelschwab, among others, demonstrated how much the western farming communities in Africa were socially influenced and shaped to fit into the ideological and political projects of the metropolitan and the local colonial administrations (Stoler, 1989;Lützelschwab, 2007;Uusihakala, 2015;Coghe, 2016;Bonello, 2010).…”

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Settler farming, agricultural colonisation and development in Katanga (Belgian Congo), 1910-1920

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From 1908 to 1920, the Belgian Ministry of Colonies organised the first stateled agricultural colonization efforts in Katanga, Belgian Congo. This article examines the complex interactions between public and private actors and how they shaped a colonial agricultural policy. Mission Leplae had a very difficult start and was terminated after ardent discussions in the Belgian Parliament, despite the support of the Agricultural Service. This migration initiative exposed the different views and even tensions between the opinions of technical experts such as agronomists and the ideas of the colonial hommes politiques and private actors, both in Belgium and in the Congo. In this article, the image of a homogeneous colonial state acquires nuance as we unravel and analyse the daily realities and initiatives of these first Belgian agricultural settlers in the broader framework of Belgian colonial politics. When the alliance between the State, the mining sector and agricultural settlers ceased to exist, because European agriculture was not developing fast enough and geopolitical interests had changed, the government stopped supporting the colonization project. After the First World War, the number of Belgian farmers in Katanga began to increase again, mainly thanks to support from the private sector. This article shows how state support was an important but not decisive factor in the survival strategies of a settler community.

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“…Thus, one interpretation of the child migration strategy would be as a means of significantly reducing the overall population of the poorest in British society. By contrast, whilst these young people may have been considered amongst the lowest in British society, their skin colour gave them value in the colonial context (Uusihakala, 2015). Thus the colonial governments were willing to accept these groups of unaccompanied minors as they disembarked, and financially support them whilst they grew up in the care of foster homes or institutions within the receiving country.…”

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Alone on a Wide Wide Sea: Exploring Narratives of Child Migration from Britain to Australia

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Focusing on identity formation amongst child migrants, this paper reflects on the experiences of unaccompanied minors sent from Britain to Australia in the 20 th Century. Between 1947-1967 3170 children are understood to have been exported to Australia, making Britain the only country in the world known to have exported children during peace time. Most of these children came from British care homes to which they had been entrusted by their families or social workers. The majority of exported children were from working class backgrounds and many still had living parents, or other close family, in the UK. Children as young as four were sent to train as farm labourers and domestic staff, simultaneously relieving the burden of providing for these children from the British Government, and increasing the white population in 'underpopulated' Australia. The paper presents thematic analysis of four published sources produced for a wide readership: two published memoirs and two young adult novels. The paper seeks to reflect on the impact of forced transnational migration on the children's identity formation as new Australians.

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Rescuing children, reforming the Empire: British child migration to colonial Southern Rhodesia

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Settler farming, agricultural colonisation and development in Katanga (Belgian Congo), 1910-1920

Settler farming, agricultural colonisation and development in Katanga (Belgian Congo), 1910-1920

Alone on a Wide Wide Sea: Exploring Narratives of Child Migration from Britain to Australia

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