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...