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This chapter details the origins of the Society for the Oversea Settlement of British Women (SOSBW) as a response to an employment and perceived population crisis in 1919, following the loss of British men as a consequence of the Great War. The government tried to solve the problem of redundant populations by migrating women overseas to Britain’s former white settler colonies and established a female migration organisation to carry out this work. This chapter traces the amalgamation of three societies—the British Women’s Emigration Association (BWEA), the Colonial Intelligence League (CIL), and the South African Colonisation Society (SACS)—from 1917 to 1920.
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White, B. (2019). From Volunteerism to Government Control: The Formation of the SOSBW. In: The Society for the Oversea Settlement of British Women, 1919-1964. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13348-1_2
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