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This book provides a social, cultural, and political history of migration, ethnicity, and madness in New Zealand between 1860 and 1910. Its key aim is to analyse the ways that patients, families, asylum officials, and immigration authorities engaged with the ethnic backgrounds and migration histories and pathways of asylum patients and why. Exploring such issues enables us to appreciate the difficulties that some migrants experienced in their relocation abroad, hardships that are often elided in studies of migration that focus on successful migrant settlement.
Drawing upon lunatic asylum records (including patient casebooks and committal forms), immigration files, surgeon superintendents reports, asylum inspector reports, medical journals, and legislation, the book highlights the importance of examining antecedent experiences, the migration process itself, and settlement in the new land as factors that contributed to admission to an asylum. The study also raises broader themes beyond the asylum of discrimination, exclusion, segregation, and marginalisation, issues that are as evident in society today as in the past.
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. New Zealand Asylums in the British World
2. Exporting and Repatriating the Insane
3. The Voyage out, Motives, Migration Pathways, Asylum Transfers
4. The New Land and Local Ties
5. Transnational Ties to Home
6. 'Race', Ethnicity, and Cross-Cultural Encounters
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
