Scottish Ethnicity and the Making of New Zealand Society, 1850-1930 / / Tanja Bueltmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Bueltmann, Tanja,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Scottish Historical Review Monographs : SHRM
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 23 B/W illustrations 23 b+w illustrations

The Scots accounted for around a quarter of all UK-born immigrants to New Zealand between 1861 and 1945, but have only been accorded scant attention in New Zealand histories, specialist immigration histories and Scottish Diaspora Studies. This is peculiar because the flow of Scots to New Zealand, although relatively unimportant to Scotland, constituted a sizable element to the country's much smaller population. Seen as adaptable, integrating relatively more quickly than other ethnic migrant groups in New Zealand, the Scots' presence was obscured by a fixation on the romanticised shortbread tin façade of Scottish identity overseas.Uncovering Scottish ethnicity from the verges of nostalgia, this study documents the notable imprint Scots left on New Zealand. It examines Scottish immigrant community life, culture and identity between 1850 and 1930. Key Featuresexplores how Scottish immigrants negotiated their ethnicity and how that ethnicity fed into wider social structures in New Zealandargues that Scottish ethnicity functioned as a positive mechanism for integration into the new societyshows that the Scots made a huge contribution contributed to the making of New Zealand society

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Maps -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 ‘Proverbially Inclined to Roam Abroad’: Empire, Identity, and Scottish Emigration to New Zealand -- 2 ‘Feeble Pen and Paper’? The Personal Correspondence and Epistolary Practices of Scottish Migrants -- 3 ‘Brither Scots Shoulder tae Shoulder’: An Evolutionary Perspective on Scottish Associationalism -- 4 Ethnic Identity, Networks and Social Capital: The Anatomy and Function of Scottish Associationalism -- 5 ‘The Lusty Sports of “Caledonia, Stern and Wild” ’: Caledonian Games in New Zealand -- 6 Collective Rememberings of Home: Robert Burns as a Site of Memory -- 7 ‘Far Distant from their Native Land’: Locating New Zealand in the Scottish Diaspora -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index