Ten Pound Poms - A Life History of British Postwar Emigration to Australia

Informationen zum Autor Alistair Thomson is Director of the Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Sussex and Reader in Continuing Education and History Klappentext More than a million Britons emigrated to Australia between the 1940s and 1970s. They were the famous 'Ten Pound Poms' and this is their story, illuminated by the riveting testimony of migrant life histories Zusammenfassung More than a million Britons emigrated to Australia between the 1940s and 1970s. They were the famous 'Ten Pound Poms' and this is their story! illuminated by the riveting testimony of migrant life histories -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figuresList of TablesAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsA note on punctuation of interviewsIntroduction PART I EMIGRATION 1. Imagining Australia22 Leaving Britain3. Between two worldsPART II BRITONS IN POSTWAR AUSTRALIA 4. Strangers on the shore 5. 'Butlins without the laughs': life on the hostel 6. An Australian working life 7. Suburban dreams and family realities: making a home in Australia 8. Ten pound pioneers of the back-packing generation 9. 'My wayward heart': the British exodus from AustraliaPART III MIGRATION, MEMORY AND IDENTITY 10. Coming 'home' 11. British Australians: migration, nationality and identityAppendix: statistical summary of project interviewsBibliographyIndex

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• Autori: A James Hammerton, A. James Hammerton, A. James Thomson Hammerton, A.james Thomson Hammerton, Hammerton A. James, Alistair Thomson
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 05.05.2005
• EAN: 9780719071331
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7133-1
• Pagine: 400
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Analisi delle strutture sociali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; Australia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Migration, immigration & emigration, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Migration, immigration and emigration, British Isles, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples