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Insanity and Immigration Control in New Zealand and Australia, 1860–1930
Engelsk Hardback
Insanity and Immigration Control in New Zealand and Australia, 1860–1930
Engelsk Hardback

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This book examines the policy and practice of the insanity clauses within the immigration controls of New Zealand and the Commonwealth of Australia. It reveals those charged with operating the legislation to be non-psychiatric gatekeepers who struggled to match its intent. Regardless of the evolution in language and the location at which a migrant''s mental suitability was assessed, those with ''inherent mental defects'' and ''transient insanity'' gained access to these regions. This book accounts for the increased attempts to medicalise border control in response to the widening scope of terminology used for mental illnesses, disabilities and dysfunctions. Such attempts co-existed with the promotion of these regions as ''invalids'' paradises'' by governments, shipping companies, and non-asylum doctors. Using a bureaucratic lens, this book exposes these paradoxes, and the failings within these nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Australasian nation-state building exercises.


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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
244
ISBN-13:
9783030263294
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
3030263290
Udg. Dato:
17 okt 2019
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
148mm
Højde:
210mm
Forlag:
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Oplagsdato:
17 okt 2019
Forfatter(e):
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