Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Unravelling ‘Mental Illness’: What Exactly Are We Talking About?

Chapter 3 Critical Perspectives on Histories of ‘Madness’ and Migration

Chapter 5 Unsettled States: Madness and Migration in Cape Town, c. 1920

Chapter 6 Ethnicities and Environments: Perceptions of Alienation and Mental Illness Among Scottish and Scandinavian Settlers in North America, c. 1870–c. 1914

Chapter 7 Stories of Immigrant Isolation and Despair: Canadian Novels and Memoirs Since the 1850s

Chapter 8 Mad Migrants and the Reach of English Civil Law

Chapter 9 Canada’s Deportation of ‘Mentally and Morally Defective’ Female Immigrants After the Second World War

Chapter 10 Between the Past and the Future: Migration and Melancholic Nationalism in Iceland

Chapter 11 Doing Harm or Doing Good? Some Reflections on the Impact of Social Work and Social Policy on the Mental Health of Commonwealth Immigrants to the UK in the Twentieth Century

Chapter 12 Is Migration Good For You? A Psychiatric and Historical Perspective