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Book Review

Review essay: children and settler colonialism

Child Labor in America: The Epic Legal Struggle to Protect Children, by John Fliter, Lawrence, University Press of Kansas, 2018, pp. 320, USD 27.95 (Paperback), ISBN: 9780700626311Imagining Child Welfare in the Spirit of Reconciliation, edited by Dorothy Badry, H. Monty Montgomery, Damiel Kikulwe, Marlyn Bennett and Don Fuchs, Regina, University of Regina Press, 2018, pp. 348, CAD 39.95 (Paperback), ISBN: 9780889775756Education and Empire: Children, Race and Humanitarianism in the British Settler Colonies, 1833–1880, by Rebecca Swartz, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. 253, EUR 44.99 (Hardback), ISBN: 978-3-319-95908-5The Queer Aesthetics of Childhood: Asymmetries of Innocence and the Cultural Politics of Child Development, by Hannah Dyer, New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 2020, pp. 170, USD 31.95 (Paperback), ISBN: 9781978803992

Pages 575-580 | Published online: 20 Dec 2023
 

Notes

1 Toby Rollo, ‘Feral Children: Settler Colonialism, Progress, and the Figure of the Child’, Settler Colonial Studies 8, no. 1 (2018).

2 Meera Baswan and Sena Yenilmez, ’The SIxties Scoop’, The Indigenous Foundation https://www.theindigenousfoundation.org/articles/the-sixties-scoop.

3 Jordana Silverstein, Cruel Care: A History of Children at our Borders (Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2023).

4 Patrick Wolfe, ‘Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native’, Journal of Genocide Research 8, no. 4 (2006): 388

5 Anna Haebich, ‘Neoliberalism, Settler Colonialism and the History of Indigenous Child Removal in Australia’, Australian Indigenous Law Review 19, no. 1 (2015); Julie Kaomea, ‘Education for Elimination in Nineteenth-Century Hawai’i: Settler Colonialism and the Native Hawaiian Chiefs Children's Boarding School’, History of Education Quarterly 54, no. 2 (2014); Paulette Regan, Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling and Reconciliation in Canada (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010).

6 Margaret Jacobs, White Mother to a Black Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009).

7 Christina Firpo and Margaret Jacobs, ‘Taking Children, Ruling Colonies: Child Removal and Colonial Subjugation in Australia, Canada, French Indochina and the United States, 1870-1950s’, Journal of World History 29, no. 4 (2018).

8 Katie Wright, Shurlee Swain and Johanna Sköld, J. (2020). The Age of Inquiry: A global mapping of institutional abuse inquiries. 2nd ed. Melbourne: La Trobe University. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4225/22/591e1e3a36139

9 Bringing Them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Australia, April 1997.

10 Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Government of Canada, Ottawa, 1996 (5 vols); Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Canada's Residential Schools, Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Winnipeg, 2015-2016 (6 vols).

11 Margaret Jacobs, ‘Seeing Like a Settler Colonial State’, Modern American History 1 no. 2 (2018).

12 Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, ‘The Biopolitics of Israeli Settler Colonialism: Palestinian Bedouin Children Theorise the Present’, Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies 15 no 1 (2016).

13 Karen Alexander (2016). ‘Childhood and Colonialism in Canadian History’ History Compass 14 no 9 (2016).

14 Nell Musgrove (2023) ‘Settler Colonial Expansion and the Institutionalisation of Children in Victoria, Australia’, Settler Colonial Studies (2023). DOI:10.1080/2201473X.2023.2265096

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