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Insanity and Immigration Control in New Zealand and Australia, 1860-1930 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
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Insanity and Immigration Control in New Zealand and Australia, 1860-1930 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: Mental Health in Historical Perspective
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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 evolution in language and the
location at which a migrant's mental suitability was assessed,
those with 'inherent mental defects' and 'transient insanity'
gained access to these regions. This book accounts for the
increased attempts to medicalise border control in response to the
widening scope of terminology used for mental illnesses,
disabilities and dysfunctions. Such attempts co-existed with the
promotion of these regions as 'invalids' paradises' by governments,
shipping companies, and non-asylum doctors. Using a bureaucratic
lens, this book exposes these paradoxes, and the failings within
these nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Australasian
nation-state building exercises.
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