Bachelors of Misery and Proxy Brides

Simic, Zora

doi:10.1080/14490854.2014.11668504

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“…It also demonstrates contemporary anxieties about ethnic enclave formation and a sex imbalance potentially producing a group of dangerous, foreign men without family ties. 99 Last attempted to instil "an appreciation of the migrant's social, cultural, vocational and domestic situations" in his readers, so "the process of assimilation may be facilitated, and this is surely good preventative medicine." In doing so he unwittingly propagated a stereotype of Southern European migrants as inherently neurotic and difficult, legitimized by the language of epidemiology and health risk.…”

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Constructing the "New Australian Patient": Assimilation as Preventative Medicine in Postwar Australia

Henrich¹

2019

Histoire sociale/Social history

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This article brings together historical questions about the nature of assimilation and the medicalization of migrants in the postwar era, with a focus on medical writings about migrant patients in Australia in the 1950s and 1960s. It argues that physicians adopted official assimilation ideologies to construct a “New Australian patient” whose beliefs and behaviours indicated a less sophisticated understanding of medicine, and who suffered particular psychosomatic illnesses and health risks linked to their migration, socioeconomic status, and linguistic isolation. By making assimilation medical, these doctors helped bridge the cultural gulf that existed between Australian doctors and their migrant patients, but they also perpetuated cultural stereotypes through which certain unassimilable groups were blamed for their own medical problems.

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