Poor Australian Immigrants in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Eric Richards
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Poor Australian immigrants in the nineteenth century (Visible immigrants 2)
Author: Eric Richards
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Poor Australian immigrants in the nineteenth century (Visible immigrants 2)
Author: Robin Haines
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9780646020358
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Melanie Burkett
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-10-26
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 3030849201
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book unravels the paradoxical denigration of the first significant group of free (non-convict), working-class emigrants to the Australian colony of New South Wales in the 1830s. Though their labour was sorely needed, the colonial elite rejected the new arrivals on the grounds that they were ‘lazy’ and ‘immoral’. These criticisms stemmed from political, economic, and cultural motivations that ultimately sought to protect, legitimise, and cement the elite’s financial and social hegemony. The author seeks to explore the ulterior motives behind the public denouncements of immigrants by exposing the conflicting and opportunistic rationales used. Brought to Australia from Britain and Ireland through the experiment of ‘government-assisted migration,’ these immigrants are often remembered as ‘brave pioneers’ today, but this book exposes the deep antagonistic attitudes toward immigration that remain entrenched in Australian society. Uncovering early forms of class antagonism in Australia, this book presents useful insights for those researching Australian history and migration studies, as well as scholars of colonial history, by providing a model for re-evaluating and confronting a long-standing pattern in most settler societies: hostility toward immigrants.
Author: Robert Vincent Jackson
Publisher: Canberra : Australian National University Press
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 200
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