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This Chapter examines the quality of life experienced by men, women, and boys who, unlike the migrants bound for America, moved eastward in a long, frequently solitary voyage. These emigrants did not move voluntarily, within a growing stream of more conventional migrants, for they were male, female, and boy felons. With rare exceptions their origins were from the ranks of the urban poor, and tended not to be first-time offenders. Several transport ships of the early Victorian era are considered.
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Appendix 1: Numerical Estimate of Adult Immigrants to Australia, Quality of Life
Domain | Rating | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
−2 | −1 | 0 | +1 | +2 | |
Gender (M) | ☺ | ||||
Skills | ◯ | ||||
Single | ☺ | ||||
Convicted | ☹ | ||||
Assets | ☺ | ||||
English-speaking | ☺ | ||||
Health | ◯ | ||||
Weather | ◯ | ||||
Nearby port | ☺ | ||||
Food at hand | ☺ | ||||
Barber/surgeon | ☺ | ||||
Sturdy vessel | ☺ | ||||
Kith and kin | ☺ | ||||
Property | ◯ | ||||
Urban settlement | ☺ | ||||
Indenture | |||||
– Discharged | ☺ | ||||
– Fled | ☺ | ||||
– Cheated | ☹ | ||||
Appendix 2: Numerical Estimate of Young Male Convicts to Australia, Quality of Life
Domain | Rating | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
−2 | −1 | 0 | +1 | +2 | |
Gender (M) | ☺ | ||||
Skills | ◯ | ||||
Single | ☺ | ||||
Convicted | ☹ | ||||
Assets | ☺ | ||||
English-speaking | ☺ | ||||
Health | ◯ | ||||
Weather | ◯ | ||||
Nearby port | ☺ | ||||
Food at hand | ☺ | ||||
Barber/surgeon | ☺ | ||||
Sturdy vessel | ☺ | ||||
Kith and kin | ☺ | ||||
Property | ◯ | ||||
Urban settlement | ☺ | ||||
Indenture | |||||
– Discharged | ☺ | ||||
– Fled | ☺ | ||||
– Cheated | ☹ | ||||
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Jordan, T. (2020). Forced Emigration to the Antipodes. In: Quality of Life and Early British Migration. SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33077-4_3
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