Insanity and Immigration Control in New Zealand and Australia, 1860-1930

• Main Author: Kain, Jennifer S. (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.
• Series: Mental Health in Historical Perspective
• Subjects: Islands of the Pacific-History.; Social history.; Medicine-History.; Emigration and immigration.; Australasian History.; Social History.; History of Medicine.; Migration.

This book examines the policy and practice of the insanity clauses within the immigration controls of New Zealand and the Commonwealth of Australia. It reveals those charged with operating the legislation to be non-psychiatric gatekeepers who struggled to match its intent. Regardless of the evolutio...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Populating Australasia with Sound Minds
• Part I: New Zealand
• 3 Nation-Building, Agent Generals and Imported Lunatics, New Zealand, 1870 to 1879
• 4 Imbecile Passengers and Commercial Paradoxes, New Zealand, 1880 to 1898
• 5 Deportation, Domicile and Mental Deficiency, New Zealand, 1899 to 1930
• Part II: The Commonwealth of Australia
• 6. The 'Insane' and the White Australia Policy, 1901 to 1912
• 7. Eugenics and Border Control, Australia, 1912 to 1920
• 8 1. Effective Border Machinery, Ineffective Mental Equipment, Australia 1920 to 1930
• 9. Conclusion.