Children of Empire
The Alignments of Church, State and Family in the Creation of Mobile Children
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2164017 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Janet Fink (0000-0003-3584-3238, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 847-865 |
| Publication date | 2007-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-2386 • E-ISSN: 1466-4348 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09502380701470650 |
| OpenAlex | W1590009425 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 18 |
This article takes as its starting point the phenomenon of child migration to Britain's White Dominions in the 1940s and 1950s to explore the ways in which the social was being governed in the immediate post-war years. Through this contested form of child welfare, it illustrates the deeply rooted, symbolic meanings and values attached to empire and religion and the role that these played in mediating the power and control of the state over its citizens in post-war British society. The article moves on to consider the power relations at play in the claims making activities of former child migrants in the 1980s and 1990s and, in turn, examines how these have come to haunt not only contemporary social policy but also more popular accounts of welfare and family life. Overall it argues that the spatial and temporal contexts in which knowledge about welfare subjects and phenomena is produced offer rich insights into the complexities of the past and their shaping of the present
Empire · Epistemology · Phenomenon · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · Welfare · Welfare state · White (mutation · Australian History and Society · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Irish and British Studies · Law
Bibliography of Books and Articles Published in English on Colonialism and Imperialism in 2007
Reintegrating agency, regulation and the economy into histories of child emigration from North West England to Canada, 1860–1930
Migration in childhood and its impact on national identity construction among migrants from Northern Ireland
Threatened children
The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
Ghostly Matters
Welfare
Telling Sexual Stories
Voluntarism, salvation, and rescue
The British government, child welfare, and child migration to Australia after 1945
Constructing Social Problems
The orphan country
The `Stolen Generations' and Cultural Genocide
Introducing History (In)to Cultural Studies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2020 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |