Overview
- Analyses the motives behind the Australian elite's denouncement of government-assisted migrants
- Unravels political, economic, and cultural forces involved in the construction of social hierarchy in a settler colony
- Touches on Australian attitudes felt towards immigration and immigrants today
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Migration History (PSMH)
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Table of contents(8 chapters)
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Hamden, USA
Melanie Burkett
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Opposing Australia’s First Assisted Immigrants, 1832-42
Authors: Melanie Burkett
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Migration History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84920-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84919-1Published: 27 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84922-1Published: 28 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-84920-7Published: 26 October 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-4358
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4366
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 256
Topics: History, general, Migration, Imperialism and Colonialism, History of Britain and Ireland, Social History