The Welsh Patagonian Connection: A Neglected Chapter in Australian Immigration History
The Welsh Patagonian Connection: A Neglected Chapter in Australian Immigration History
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威尔士巴塔哥尼亚的联系：澳大利亚移民史上被忽视的一章
DOI：
10.1111/1468-2435.00034
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发表时间：
1998
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
M. Langfield
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作者：
M. Langfield
本文介绍了1865年至1914年期间威尔士移民到巴塔哥尼亚的历史，他们移民的动机，他们在阿根廷的经历，以及随后在世纪初数百人移居英国的经历。
文章第一部分的重点是1910年至1915年期间从巴塔哥尼亚前往澳大利亚的人的性质，以及19世纪90年代一群澳大利亚人向巴拉圭的移民。文章的后半部分探讨了威尔士巴塔哥尼亚人在澳大利亚的经历，他们与联邦和州政府的关系，在激烈的竞争中，以获得他们作为定居者，他们参与了两个新南威尔士州皇家委员会有关的Murrumbidgee灌溉区的运作。
文章最后讨论了在何种程度上威尔士的文化遗产和身份一直保存这些定居者在同化后联邦澳大利亚。这不仅是一次独特的双重移民经历，而且它对这一时期的移民鼓励政策和官方广告材料提出了质疑，这一历史与澳大利亚战前和战后的其他土地定居计划相似。
This article is an account of the history of Welsh migrants to Patagonia from 1865 to 1914, their motivations for emigrating, their experiences in Argentina, and the subsequent relocation of several hundred to the British dominions in the early twentieth century.
The focus in the first part of the article is on the nature of those who went from Patagonia to Australia between 1910 and 1915 and the migration of a group of Australians to Paraguay in the 1890s. The second half of the article examines the experiences of the Welsh Patagonians in Australia, their relationships with federal and state governments in the light of the intense rivalry to procure them as settlers, and their involvement in two New South Wales Royal Commissions concerning the operations of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area.
The article concludes with a discussion on the degree to which a Welsh cultural heritage and identity has been preserved by these settlers in an assimilationist post-Federation Australia. Not only is this a unique double migration experience, but it calls into question immigration encouragement policies and official advertising material during this period, a history which parallels other land settlement schemes of both the pre- and post-war eras in Australia.