Australia, Britain and Migration, 1915 1940 - Roe, Michael
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The story of Australia's post-war immigration program is well known, but little has been written about migration to Australia between the wars. This book is the first systematic study of assisted emigration from Britain to Australia during the inter-war years. It looks at the British and Australian politicians and bureaucrats involved in the program and the half-million migrants who uprooted themselves. While their imperial ties were significant, the book shows that British and Australian governments acted in their own interests, using migration to meet their different needs, with little…mehr

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The story of Australia's post-war immigration program is well known, but little has been written about migration to Australia between the wars. This book is the first systematic study of assisted emigration from Britain to Australia during the inter-war years. It looks at the British and Australian politicians and bureaucrats involved in the program and the half-million migrants who uprooted themselves. While their imperial ties were significant, the book shows that British and Australian governments acted in their own interests, using migration to meet their different needs, with little regard for the migrants themselves. Michael Roe shows that the Anglo-Australian relationship was rife with contradictions and these often came to a head in the debates over migration. Not only is the book an important study of imperial relations in the 1920s and 1930s, it describes an important and overlooked aspect of Australian political and social history.

Table of contents:
Introduction; Background; 1. The Great War's impact; 2. The whirl of Hughes: 1920-3; 3. S. M. Bruce and Empire: 1923-5; 4. The modest zenith of hope: 1925-6; 5. Ambiguities: 1926-7; 6. Through confusion to doom: 1928-9; 7. Nadir: 1929-35; 8. Toward the wheel's return: 1932-40; 9. Emigration; 10. Immigration; Afterword.

This book is the first systematic study of assisted emigration from Britain to Australia during the inter-war years. It offers a critical analysis of the relations between the governments of the two countries, and describes an important and overlooked aspect of Australian political and social history.

The first systematic study of assisted emigration from Britain to Australia during the inter-war years.