The Society for the Oversea Settlement of British Women, 1919-1964

• Main Author: White, Bonnie (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Great Britain-History.; Social history.; Civilization-History.; Women.; Emigration and immigration.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Social History.; Cultural History.; Women's Studies.; Migration.

This book examines the British government's response to the 'superfluous women problem', and concerns about post-war unemployment more generally, by creating a migration society that was tasked with reducing the number of single women at home through overseas migration. The Society fo...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. From Volunteerism to Government Control: The Formation of the SOSBW
• Chapter 3. Superfluous Women: Gender and Migration, 1919-1924
• Chapter 4. The Great Depression: New Fears, New Strategies, 1925-1935
• Chapter 5. The Second World War: New War, New Roles, 1936-1945
• Chapter 6. Temporary Migrants: Home, Abroad, and Home Again, 1945-1962
• Chapter 7. Conclusion.