Migration, Ethnicity, and Madness: New Zealand, 1860-1910

by Angela McCarthy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800348886
• ISBN13: 9781800348882
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 256 Pages