Vagrant Lives in Colonial Australasia
Regulating Mobility, 1840-1910
Series: Empire’s Other Histories;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 30 October 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350252721
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages216 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 bw illus 700
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Long description:
Investigating the history of vagrants in colonial Australia and New Zealand, this book provides insights into the histories and identities of marginalised peoples in the British Pacific Empire. Showing how their experiences were produced, shaped and transformed through laws and institutions, it reveals how the most vulnerable people in colonial society were regulated, marginalised and criminalised in the imperial world.
Studying the language of vagrancy prosecution, narratives of mobility and welfare, vagrant families, gender and mobility and the political, social and cultural interpretations of vagrancy, this book sets out a conceptual framework of mobility as a field of inquiry for legal and historical studies. Defining 'mobility' as population movement and the occupation of new social and physical space, it offers an entry point to the related histories of penal colonies and new 'settler' societies. It provides insights into shared histories of vagrancy across New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and New Zealand, and explores how different jurisdictions regulated mobility within the temporal and geographical space of the British Pacific Empire.
Table of Contents:
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
1. Approaching the colonial histories of vagrancy: an introduction
2. Vagrancy laws in the colonial world
3. The policing and prosecution of vagrants
4. The everyday lives of vagrants
5. Worlds of vulnerability
6. Adventure, wandering, or predation? Regulating mobility
7. Epilogue: The precarious present
Annotated guide to data and digital sources
Bibliography
Index
