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Imperial investmentslegacies of displacement in British child migration to Southern Rhodesia /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Imperial investmentsby Katja Uusihakala.
Reminder of title:	legacies of displacement in British child migration to Southern Rhodesia /
Author:	Uusihakala, Katja.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025.
Description:	xii, 378 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Immigrant childrenHistory20th century.Zimbabwe
Subject:	Great BritainEconomic policy1979-1997.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-80344-4
ISBN:	9783031803444$q(electronic bk.)

Imperial investmentslegacies of displacement in British child migration to Southern Rhodesia /
Uusihakala, Katja.

Imperial investmentslegacies of displacement in British child migration to Southern Rhodesia /[electronic resource] :by Katja Uusihakala. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - xii, 378 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm. - Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies,2635-1641. - Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies..

1. Introduction -- 2. Imperial Investments: Outlining and Launching the Child Migration Scheme -- Interlude: Out to Africa -- 3. "Little Britain in the bush": Growing Up at the Rhodesia Fairbridge Memorial College -- 4. "Dear Mummy! I am well and happy": Thickening and Thinning of Child Migrant Kinship through Time -- 5. Reconciliation and Selective Silences in Child Migrant Apology- 6. Remembering Community -- Afterword.

This book examines the legacy of a British child migration scheme that relocated British children to Southern Rhodesia between 1946 and 1962, with the aim of populating the colony with "fresh white stock". The selected children were resettled at Rhodesia Fairbridge Memorial College, a boarding school established in a disused RAF airbase outside the town of Bulawayo. This social engineering project sought to "rescue" children from what were predicted as undesirable futures in Britain and offer them a "better life" with prospects of social advancement. Yet, beyond individual salvation, the scheme emigrated the children with the intention that they would help sustain the racially segregated colonial order. Building on long-term ethnographic research with former Rhodesian child migrants, now living in the UK, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, this book delves into the children's unique experiences of migration, displacement, and resettlement. By highlighting these enduring emotional, social, and political repercussions, the author critically addresses how colonial histories matter in the present. Through the lens of former child migrants - whose kin relations were ruptured, who were disciplined into silence and suppression, and who have seen scant public recognition of their past - this book sheds light on the formation of memory through its gaps and silences. It contributes to our understanding of memory in relation to forced migration and displaced communities. Katja Uusihakala is a researcher in social and cultural anthropology at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

ISBN: 9783031803444$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-80344-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1002850
Immigrant children
--History--Zimbabwe--20th century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

381151
Great Britain
--Economic policy--1979-1997.

LC Class. No.: HV4013.Z55

Dewey Class. No.: 305.23086912

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