Lyndon
Fraser and Angela McCarthy
For almost 200 years, the English have been one of the largest migrant
streams to New Zealand (they have been on the move globally since around 1600).
Yet relatively little has been written about their experiences in New Zealand,
compared with their Irish, Scottish, Indian, Chinese and Pacific counterparts.
This book brings together leading international scholars and prominent local
researchers to explore a wide range of topics and issues at the very heart of
research into human mobility. Why did English-born people decide to emigrate?
What factors shaped their migration and adaptation? How might we best describe
and explain their experiences? This collection of essays will interest anyone
interested in migration and/or family history.
Far from ‘Home’ covers a wide range of topics, from drinking and
literature to mental health and Maori understandings of Englishness.
About the editors
Lyndon Fraser teaches in the Department
of History at the University of Canterbury. He is the author or editor of
several books on migration history, most recently Castles of Gold: A History of New
Zealand’s West Coast Irish (2007). In 2011, he was historian for One Land, an award-winning six-part
series that sets three families in 1850s New Zealand.
Angela McCarthy is Professor of
Scottish and Irish History and Associate Director of the Centre for Irish and
Scottish Studies at the University of Otago, where she teaches. Her most recent
book is Scottishness
and Irishness in New Zealand since 1840 (2011). With Catharine
Colebourne, she has recently edited Migration, Ethnicity, and Mental Health:
International Perspectives, 1840–2010 (2012).
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