Little Wanderers: The British Home Children in Canada

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Page Range:: 532–554

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004366398_022

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This chapter deals with the child migrant. It focuses on the many poor and working-class Home Children who, between 1869 and 1936, were sent from their British homes to work in Canada. This transatlantic relocation scheme was touted by organizers Annie Macpherson and Maria Rye as beneficial to the child, as well as the colony and home country: the child would be saved in both character and soul through hard labour, while Britain would expand its claim westward through the cultivation of Canadian land and resources (much to the colony’s productive benefit). But the reality of this scheme fell short of such idealistic projections of child salvation: too often the children were mistreated and even outright rejected by their foster families, thus culminating in what this chapter characterizes as their “migrant” status as travellers stuck between blocked horizons. The Home Child became a convenient source of labour that could be both physically and symbolically exploited in order to build countries to which they could never belong. This chapter looks at the cultural impact of these children and the role of their migrant labour in Victorian empire-building and Canadian nationalism.

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International Migrations in the Victorian Era

丛编： Studies in Global Social History, 卷： 33/11and Studies in Global Migration History, 卷： 33/11

ISBN:: 9789004366398

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 12 May 2018

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