Reluctant Refuge: Unaccompanied Refugee and Evacuee Children in Australia 1933-1945 by Glen Palmer

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Corners now protected with book tape. Sunning to foredges. Interior and binding are still very good.

Between Hitler's rise to power in 1933 and the end of WWII, Australia received a number of unaccompanied refugee and evacuee children from the United Kingdom, Europe, South-East Asia and the Pacific. The numbers were small, with the Australian Government reluctant to offer refuge to children in need and the experiences of these children were not always happy ones.

Reluctant Refuge tells the story of these children, examining their backgrounds, the cre they received, their adjustment to life in Australia without their families and the additional wrench of repatriation. (back cover)