ISBN:
9780824869007
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressourcece
DDC:
305.8009590904
Keywords:
Geschichte 1890-1980
;
Interethnische Herkunft
;
Kind
;
Eurasians History
;
Frankreich
;
Indochina
;
France Colonies 19th century
;
Race relations
;
History
;
France Colonies 20th century
;
Race relations
;
History
;
Indochina Relations
;
History
;
France Relations
;
History
Abstract:
For over a century French officials in Indochina systematically uprooted metis children - those born of Southeast Asian mothers and white, African, or Indian fathers - from their homes. In many cases, and for a wide range of reasons - death, divorce, the end of a romance, a return to France, or because the birth was the result of rape - the father had left the child in the mother's care. Although the program succeeded in rescuing homeless children from life on the streets, for those in their mothers' care it was disastrous. Citing an 1889 French law and claiming that raising children in the Southeast Asian cultural milieu was tantamount to abandonment, colonial officials sought permanent, 'protective' custody of the children. The Uprooted offers an in-depth investigation of the colony's child-removal program: the motivations behind it, reception of it, and resistance to it.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2016
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.21313/hawaii/9780824847579.001.0001
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.21313/hawaii/9780824847579.001.0001
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