350 Pages
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Routledge
350 Pages
by
Routledge
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The term 'relocation cost' has been coined by Philip Curtin to refer to the increased mortality associated with the migration of people from their childhood disease environments to new ones. He and others have quantified this cost for a number of migrant populations, notably Africans in the transatlantic slave trade and European tropps posted overseas. The papers in this volume, extend this... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Mortality on convict voyages to Australia, 1788-1868; Mortality on immigrant voyages to Australia in the 19th century; Babies at risk on immigrant voyages to Australia in the 19th century; Infant mortality and Fiji's Indian migrants, 1879-1919; Fertility and Fiji's Indian migrants, 1879-1919; Mortality and the Pacific labour trade; On calculating crude death rates in the Pacific labour trade; Epidemiology and the Pacific labour trade; Mortality of Indian labour on Ocean voyages, 1843-1917; Mortality and voyages of liberated Africans to the West Indies, 1841-1867; Mortality and migrant labour in Assam, 1865-1921; Mortality and migrant labour en route to Assam, 1863-1924; Mortality and Indian labour in Malaya, 1877-1913; Mortality on Chinese and Indian voyages to the West Indies and South America, 1847-1874; Epidemiology and Indian labour migration at home and abroad; Index.
Biography
Ralph Shlomowitz
’Shlomowitz has put together a valuable book. As one who read these essays when originally written, I was impressed with the strength of the entire body of work. I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in reading high quality recent work on the mortality of migrants.' The Northern Mariner, Vol. VIII, No. 3
