UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970

Chapter 1 ‘A Serious Injustice to the Individual’: British Child Migration to Australia as Policy Failure

Chapter 2 ‘The Risk Involved is Inappreciable… and the Gain Exceptional’: Child Migration to Australia and Empire Settlement Policy, 1913–1939

Chapter 3 Flawed Progress: Criticisms of Residential Institutions for Child Migrants in Australia and Policy Responses, 1939–1945

Chapter 5 ‘Australia as the Coming Greatest Foster-Father of Children the World Has Ever Known’: The Post-war Resumption of Child Migration to Australia, 1945–1947

Chapter 6 From Regulation to Moral Persuasion: Child Migration Policy and the Home Office Children’s Department, 1948–1954

Chapter 7 ‘If We Were Untrammelled by Precedent…’: Pursuing Gradual Reform in Child Migration, 1954–1961

Chapter 8 ‘Avoiding Fruitless Controversy’: UK Child Migration and the Anatomy of Policy Failure